Month: March 2012

Africa’s evil scene The eccentric atmosphere following the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s President, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity (short of genocide) in Darfur […]

The decision by the African Union (AU) to immediately suspend Mali from its membership until the “effective restoration of constitutional order is achieved without delay” is both morally sound and appropriate. This, of course, follows […]

Africa trades too little with itself: What is needed is an approach that reforms policies that create non-tariff barriers, allows cross-border movement of services suppliers and builds the institutions that are necessary to allow small […]

For once, the NDC leaders have proved that they have the guts to act decisively in the interest of the party. They’ve quickly acted to halt one of the trouble-makers in the party, Kofi Adams, […]

Professor Kwame Karikari, of the Media Foundation for West Africa, is dead-on accurate in faulting Ghana’s ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for embarking on a flagrant course of media intolerance and a thinly veiled economic […]

Am 23. März 2012 ist Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck in einer gemeinsamen Sitzung von Bundestag und Bundesrat im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages in Berlin als elfter Präsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland vereidigt worden. Anschließend hat der Bundespräsident […]

The man suspected of killing seven people in al Qaida-linked attacks in France is dead, an official said today. The news was announced on the police radio shortly after a five-minute volley of gunfire, said […]

As Africa flowers and its traditional values play out naturally with international ideals, the ensuing schisms are helping to refine some toxic African values that have been entangling Africans’ wellbeing.The conviction for life in London, […]