Month: August 2006

ZIGUINCHOR, 19 August, 2006— Insecurity in Senegal’s southern Casamance region in recent days has forced some 300 people from their homes into neighbouring villages and an undetermined number of others across the border into The […]

New York, 19 August, 2006— After the disappointing commitment by France of only 200 engineers to the newly tasked United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown appealed to the rest […]

Johannesburg, 20 August, 2006— The Council of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) has approved the appointment of Ms Wendy Luhabe, well-known business woman and entrepreneur, as the University’s first Chancellor (for a term of four […]

If we agree, for the sake of argumentation, that the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), the first modern political party to be founded in Ghana (1947), could aptly be re-designated the United Gold Coast Conservatives, […]

There is a joke that I regularly share with friends and family. It goes like this: “Verandah Boy ‘gets’ a Ph. D…. What do you think he studied?” Oftentimes they would be scratching their heads […]

Yesterday, August 3, 2006, was quite a momentous day in my life. In fact, it was a momentous day in the life of my entire family. Five years after his painful passing my father, Professor […]

Johannesburg, 31 July, 2006— Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma will have to wait until 5 September to begin his court battle against graft charges after the judge delayed the opening of the trial […]

Cotonou, 31 July, 2006— As Beninese school-children begin their annual break, the country’s iconic motorbike taxis, or “Zemidjans”, are joining a national drive to get all girls into school. Right across the tiny West African […]