Month: February 2007

Washington, 20 February, 2007— The six-party agreement to end North Korea’s nuclear program was the result of multilateral cooperation and has strengthened the diplomatic relationship between the United States and China, the top U.S. negotiator […]

On March 6, a few days hence, Ghana would have achieved fifty years of independence—the first in Black Africa to do so, Liberia notwithstanding. For Ghana to have survived is a miracle in itself, if […]

/Washington/Jerusalem 19 February, 2007— A three-way meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was “useful and productive” in paving the way for further efforts toward an Israeli-Palestinian […]

Dakar/New York, 17 February, 2007— As the United Nations Security Council prepares for discussions this week on sending peacekeepers to eastern Chad, aid agencies working there are pressing the humanitarian need for rapid deployment, but […]

Washington, 14 February, 2007— A large-scale clinical trial of a potential HIV vaccine has opened in South Africa. The study plans to enroll up to 3,000 HIV-negative men and women, making it the largest African […]

Washington, 14 February, 2007— President Bush February 14 hailed the six-party agreement on North Korea’s nuclear program as a victory for multilateral diplomacy. “The best diplomacy is diplomacy in which there is more than one […]

Washington, 13 February, 2007— The United States will implement $391 million in U.S. debt forgiveness for Liberia, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced February 13 at the opening of a two-day “Liberia Partners’ Forum” […]

It was with amused contempt that I read an editorial titled “Poor Osageyfo[sic],” ( I suppose this is Kwesi Pratt’s Nzema version of “Osagyefo”?), and sourced to the Insight newspaper in the Ghanaweb.com edition of […]