Month: January 2008

In the heated lead-up to the December 22, 2007, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Delegates’ Convention, during which the ruling party would elect its presidential candidate for Election 2008, a remarkable number of desperate attempts, frontally […]

While the near-religious fervor with which continental Africans relish sports, particularly soccer, or Association Football, cannot be gainsaid, nevertheless, the appropriation of sporting events as a rallying pivot for the unification of Africans, as was […]

Washington, 29 January, 2008— American jazz musicians from the Ryan Cohan Quartet view their upcoming tour of Africa and the Middle East as a musical homecoming of sorts that will allow them to bridge cultural […]

Washington, 29 January, 2008— Kenya, a nation of nearly 34 million people, is an important friend of the United States, and an important mediator in regional civil strife and humanitarian crises elsewhere in Africa. And […]

Nairobi, 29 January, 2008— The “official dialogue process” began on 29 January between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), even as violence that has ravaged the country since late December […]

Dakar, 28 January, 2008— Experts put the lack of progress on children’s development in West Africa down to pervasive poverty, chronic malnutrition in many countries, piecemeal aid responses, and health systems broken by protracted conflicts. […]

Nakuru, 29 January, 2008— Violence in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru has seen the numbers of displaced at the town’s largest camp skyrocket, but camp officials say it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide […]

Washington, 28 January, 2008— “Men and women who are free to determine their own destinies will reject terror and refuse to live in tyranny,” President Bush told Congress in the final State of the Union […]