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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Former President Rawlings is in the news again; and, as is characteristic of him, he is in for the wrong reason. Speaking at the 30th Anniversary ceremony of the 31st December Women’s Movement, he was angry at what he called “unprecedented monetization of the political space,” being perpetrated by members of his own party in
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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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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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Chad’s Hissene Habre will go into the record books as the first former African leader whose flight from justice for many years has been cut short by the very country that has harboured him for 21 years. Senegal’s octogenarian President, Abdoulaye Wade, has finally decided to hold the bull by its horns and no more
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The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, has lauded President John Evans Atta Mills for his role in the peace process in La Cote d’Ivoire. He said the exemplary leadership role of President Mills in crisis situations in Africa was unmatched, and described him as “the best leader on the continent.” What? The shock (or the cheek?)
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Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, General Overseer of the Christian Action Faith Chapel, made a shocking revelation yesterday when he alleged that Simone Gbagbo, wife of the
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Former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has described the arrest of Cote d’Ivoire’s President Laurent Gbagbo on Monday as a repetition of the tragedy
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara to ensure that there is no retaliation against supporters of his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo, who
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When I saw the Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo in “Joe Singlet” and sweating profusely on the BBC and Euro News channels a short while ago,
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