Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s deadliest pandemic diseases and is becoming increasingly resistant to current drugs. Only with faster, better and affordable cures for tuberculosis can we save millions of lives and overcome this global epidemic. TB kills 1.4 million people each year or more than one person every 25 seconds. Propelled by
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You see, when Mr. Kwame Pianim calls Nana Akufo-Addo and his executive associates of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) “intellectually and mentally lazy” politicos, he poignantly reminds me of the famous “Fore-Finger Philosophy” espoused by the Akan people of Ghana. Well, actually, it is a maxim; and it tersely goes as follows: “Whenever
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The 53rd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC), the highest policy-making body of the organisation, will be held in the City of its birth, Mangaung (Bloemfontein) beginning on 16 December 2012. In January this year, Mangaung hosted tens of thousands of people who gathered there to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the founding
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Booming construction, a burgeoning middle-class, gleaming shopping malls. Ghana’s oil-driven economic expansion is transforming the country, but uneven development also means many are being outpaced and slipping further into poverty. “The economic boom, especially in Accra [the capital], is obvious, but inequalities are widening as all the prices have gone up,” said Eugenie Maiga, an
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The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) on Friday cited the General Secretaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, for use of indecent expressions on radio. The MFWA’s report on campaign language monitoring for August 12–18, made available to the Ghana
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Assessments of security trends in Iraq vary wildly depending on who you speak to, how you count the statistics, and which period of time you study. But one thing is clear: bomb blasts, targeted killings or improvised explosive devices are still a daily occurrence in Iraq. Last week’s coordinated attacks – leaving more than 100
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“He took me as a son; I ask you to take heart because you are not alone in our grief…you have lost a son, I gained a father when he took me as his vice president and even though you’ve lost a great son, I think you’ve gained a son (in me). I hope you
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Des dizaines de milliers de combattants ayant participé au conflit post-électoral de 2010-2011 en Côte d’Ivoire seraient toujours armés et potentiellement dangereux, a déclaré l’Opération des Nations Unies en Côte d’Ivoire (ONUCI), qui appelle à la mise en place urgente d’un programme de désarmement, démobilisation et réintégration (DDR). Le 8 juin, une milice qui serait
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One of the most important congresses in the German health sector, the Capital Congress, Medicine and Health, came to an end at Berlin’s International Congress Centre (ICC) Friday. The congress, June 13-15, was attended by over 8,000 participants, comprising mandarins from health economy, medicine, home care, politics and the media. Other participants include management representatives,
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It was rather amusingly annoying to hear Ghana’s longtime strongman, Mr. Jeremiah John Rawlings glibly blame the pilot of the Nigerian cargo plane that crash-landed at the sole international airport in Accra over the weekend (See “Rawlings Blames Plane Crash on Poor Judgment” Ghanaweb.com 6/4/12). In crash-landing, the Boeing 727 cargo plane, with the legend
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