Germany’s Foreign Minister, Dr Guido Westerwelle, has commended the New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2012 presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, for choosing to contest the results of the December 7 polls in the Supreme Court and not inciting his followers and supporters to take up arms. Dr Westerwelle said Ghana continues to shine on the African continent
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I am quite certain that nobody would like to be in the boots of FIFA President Sepp Blatter right now. Although he is not a cricketer, the man really has had to do some pretty tough fielding these past few years. The body he governs is in the throes of one scandal after another. So
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Remarkable material development in Africa, according to Busia, can only happen if Africans begin to radically alter their cultural values, especially with regard to the
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The future prime minister of Ghana, and a leading scholar of African social theory and institutional structures, provides the most cogent answer yet to those
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has called for German technological assistance to address the Boko Haram problem confronting his country. Speaking at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, the Nigerian leader stressed that with the support of the international community, Nigeria can overcome the insurgency of the sect that has claimed
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Germany’s largest parliamentary convention assembles in Berlin today to elect a new Federal President following the resignation of President Christian Wulff in February. The Convention usually assembles every five years in the Reichstag Building, the exception being if the Federal President’s term of office end prematurely. Three candidates are in the running for the office
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At long last, there is something on the horizon to assure us that the decades-long Somali crisis will be tackled to restore sanity to the Horn of Africa and relieve the world of a major headache. Somalia may be suffering the negative backlash of political instability but the world feels the pinch when the Somali
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Under the colonial enterprise, the British and their rival European powers knew only one way to grab resources—entering other people’s worlds and plundering their resources. That colonial enterprise was motivated by nothing but greed and a heartless exploitation and subjugation of other people, including those in the United States. As if oblivious to its own
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China has taken its relationship with Africa to a new level by snuggling to the continental body, the African Union. It has given a concrete evidence to authenticate that relationship and provided a new $200m (£127m) AU headquarters, funded and built by it. The building was officially opened on Saturday for use by the African
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Ghana’s former President and African Union High Representative for Somalia, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, says Africa failed to prevent excesses sponsored by some members of the international community during political upheavals in countries such as Libya and Cote d’Ivoire. President Rawlings said the political movements in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Cote d’Ivoire challenged the
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