Month: February 2010

Dakar, 19 February, 2010— Opposition parties, Niger’s largest union and members of civil society announced their support on 19 February for a military ruling council that abducted President Mamadou Tandja the day before and suspended […]

Dakar, 18 February, 2010— Researchers in the UK have unveiled a new system of storing vaccines without refrigeration that could cut vaccination costs in poor tropical countries, according to Oxford University. “You could even picture […]

A year ago, the world was shocked by images of boatloads of ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar being pushed out to open sea off the Thailand coast to fend for themselves with little food or […]

In the wake of the widely reported fire that gutted the mega-mansion of former President Jeremiah John Rawlings, one logically anticipated that other prominent Ghanaian leaders would issue public statements and announcements condoling with the […]

I can’t even trust Mr. Kwesi Pratt to baby-sit my dog. And so I am still trying to figure out exactly why almost every one of the major Ghanaian media houses picked up his rather […]

Let me take this opportunity to heartily congratulate the Government and people of Nigeria for patiently wading through, perhaps, the most trying political crisis in recent times. I also fully applaud the now-“acting” President Goodluck […]

Vice-President John Dramani Mahama’s reported declaration of March 6, 2010 as one that commemoratively caps the centenary anniversary celebrations of late President Kwame Nkrumah, provides absolutely nothing new or significant in Ghana’s post-independence narrative. At […]

Paris/Geneva, 15 February, 2010— On the occasion of the International Childhood Cancer Day, which falls today, the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and sanofi-aventis has launsched seven new projects for improving cancer care for children […]