Month: May 2009

Berlin, 23 May, 2009— Germany‘s Federal Convention meeting in the Bundestag (Parliament) for the 13th time has re-elected Horst Köhler as president to serve a second five-year term. The incumbent received 613 votes of the […]

I have often been amused by Ghanaian critics of my articles, on the various websites, who cavalierly presume to deride the fact that I teach at a community college in the United States. In the […]

Berlin, 23 May, 2009— The German Parliament is actively preparing itself this weekend for the election of a new president at the 13th Federal Assembly in Berlin. Four candaidates are standing for the election. They […]

I read of President Barack Obama’s proposed overnight stopover in Ghana in July this year and did not particularly feel any enthusiasm about it. Then my good friend and adopted elder brother, Mr. Kwasi Ohene, […]

Nairobi, 18 May, 2009— – Rebels in Sudan’s Darfur region are showing signs of unity, but it has not brought their region any closer to a comprehensive peace, analysts said, as the government wrapped up […]

Wiesbaden, 15 May, 2009— The German economy suffered its largest contraction since reunification in the first three months of the year, official data has shown. Gross domestic product (GDP) fell 3.8% from the previous quarter, […]

Bindura, 13 May, 2009— It is harvest time in Zimbabwe’s northern Mashonaland Central Province, but the only thing growing on most of the farms around Bindura, the provincial capital, is tall grass. “This area used […]

Dakar, 1 May, 2009— The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Africa regional office has created a crisis management team to monitor the spread of influenza A/H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, as WHO raised the […]