In the global fight for the control and elimination of the world’s most devastating and debilitating diseases that affects over a billion people, one organization, the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases has since emerged as a leading light in this noble venture. An initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, it envisioned a world free
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Pope Benedict XVI has announced he will retire on February 28 and Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana is next in line, according to Paddy Power, a betting website. Pope Benedict is reportedly retiring “due to advanced age”. The 85-year-old’s papalcy began on April 19, 2005, and less than eight years later he is calling it
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President John Dramani Mahama, who is on a four-day visit to Turkey, will this morning hold talks with President Abdullah Gül at the Presidential Palace in Ankara and later co-chair a bilateral session with President Gül. A statement in Accra on Tuesday from the Office of the President said some cooperation agreements that had been
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ترجح المنظمات الإنسانية أن يزداد العنف ويتدهور الوضع الإنساني في أفغانستان في عام 2013. وتقول خطة العمل الإنسانية المشتركة (CHAP) الجديدة لعام 2013، الصادرة عن مكتب الأمم المتحدة لتنسيق الشؤون الإنسانية (أوتشا) أن “اتجاهات الصراع المتفاقم على مدى السنوات الخمس الماضية تشير إلى استمرار معاناة المدنيين بسبب العنف المسلح وتدهور الوضع الإنساني”. ويجمع التقرير بين
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Overseas Chronicle: The Rome and Amsterdam Experience is another suspenseful, thrilling epic tale of Joel Savage’s books inspired by true events. As an illegal immigrant in Europe, before documented, he narrates how he survived the hostile harsh conditions and mafia gangs of Rome, Italy, by sleeping at rough places including the central train station and
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Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, held a narrow lead in provisional results as people finished casting ballots after the process was extended to a second day because of malfunctioning voter-identification machines. Mahama had 50.2 percent of votes cast from 155 of the country’s 275 constituencies, according to figures on the website of Accra-based, closely held
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President John Mahama is calling for absolute peace before, during and after Friday’s election. In an nationwide address, barely 12 hours into Friday’s elections the president said the election is “only a contest between competing policies and must not set families and ethnic groups apart.” “Let us remember that Ghana is bigger and more important
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The US$2 billion pledged by donors on 30 October to support Burundi’s development sounds like a ringing endorsement of the central African country’s progress from civil war to peace and democracy. But memories are still fresh of the 1993-2005 conflict that killed more than 200,000 people, and analysts, human rights experts, and civil society and political
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In a move seemingly alien to Ghana’s tempestuous and sharply divisive and accusatory politics, opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo Thursday called on the founder of the governing NDC, Jerry John Rawlings, at his Ridge residence in Accra. Former President Jerry John Rawlings and the flag-bearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party engaged in such an unusually
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Warning that the world faces “a choice between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common,” United States President Barack Obama said today September 25, 2012) the deadly violence sparked by an anti-Islam video is an assault on the very ideals upon which the United Nations was founded. “The
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