Month: February 2014

  I knew it was only a matter of time before the founding-patriarch of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) came public and personal with his gladhanded, or pro-forma, eulogy for Mr. Komla Dumor, the […]

Im Jahr 2012 erhielten in Deutschland rund 439 000 Menschen Hilfe zur Pflege. Gegenüber 2011 stieg die Zahl der Empfängerinnen und Empfänger um 3,8 %. Wie das Statistische Bundesamt weiter mitteilt, gaben die Träger der […]

Released detainees from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) must be part of the national political dialogue in South Sudan, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country reiterated today as anti- and pro-Government representatives […]

United Nations-sponsored talks between the Syrian Government and opposition resumed today, 10 days after a first round ended with little progress, in efforts to end the civil war, as an already- violated ceasefire to allow […]

The rainy season, always welcome in often dry southern Africa, has brought with it favourable breeding conditions for army worms and red locusts. The crop-eating pests are contributing to the woes of subsistence farmers already […]

Youth unemployment and underemployment are among the main barriers to development in West Africa, say experts. Not only does the exclusion of young people from the labour force perpetuate generational cycles of poverty, it also […]

Ghana has recorded over 76 percent decrease in new HIV infections among children and 25 percent decline in new HIV infections among our youth over just three years. That’s according to First Lady, Lordina Mahama. […]

In recent days, the General Overseer of the Christian Action Faith Ministries (CAFM) has come under caustic public strafing for daring to pray for the prompt arrest and stability of the fast-plummeting Ghanaian monetary currency, […]