Africa

The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa could increase sharply in coming months due to below-average rainfall and high food and fuel prices, say aid workers. Moreover, funding shortfalls, drought […]

It ought to have become limpidly clear to Ghanaians by now, that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, led by Messrs. John Evans Atta-Mills and John Dramani Mahama, thrives more on empty promises than being […]

One of the major problems that many Ghanaians have complained about but which no serious effort is being made to solve is indiscipline at all levels in our national life. Considering the current heightening of […]

If the leaders of the countries bonded together in the International Coalition that is helping the Benghazi rebels sustain the turmoil in Libya initially thought that eliminating the Gaddafi government would be a cake walk, […]

Abdel Moneim Ahmed was finally able to buy 10 loaves of subsidized bread after queuing for one-and-a-half hours with 30 people outside a bakery in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Another woman, known only as Zeinab, […]

Soon after the Libyan crisis broke, decision-makers and humanitarian workers faced a critical challenge: lack of information about events inside the country. Within hours, Andrej Verity, information management officer at the UN Office for the […]

The United Nations trade and development body is calling for shifting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world’s poorest countries towards creating jobs and diversifying their economies, ahead of a major global conference next week […]

The events to confirm the splitting of Libya into two countries are unfolding right in front of our eyes. The outcome of the collusion between the Benghazi rebels and the International Coalition backing them is […]