Month: June 2007

Berlin/Heiligendamm The J8 have called on the G8 meeting in Heiligendamm to tackle the major problems our world is facing. They advocated fair global trade and called on the G8 most specifically to invest in […]

Berlin/Heiligendamm, 6 June, 2007— Before the official part of the G8 Summit begins this evening, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be holding meetings with several of the Heads of State and Government in Heiligendamm. She […]

“Could have fooled me,” goes the popular American saying; and it must just as well have been composed to describe the flighty mental state of the twice-defeated presidential candidate of the so-called National Democratic Congress […]

The recent announcement by Ghana’s Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines to Parliament that his Ministry was in the process of creating a new zoo to replace the old one in Accra, saw a lot […]

Washington/Prague, 5 June, 2007— The ideals of democracy are universal, and democracies have an obligation to promote them as a foundation for peace and prosperity, President Bush says. “We appreciate that free societies take shape […]

Berlin, 6 June, 2007— Official German development assistance (ODA) will be topped up in the coming year by some 750 million euros – an increase of 14 percent. In no other area has German government […]

Not since Dr. Kamuzu Banda turned Malawi into hostile, pseudo-European territory have so many Ghanaian physicians attempted to run for president of their country. And the several logical bases for their decision to run for […]

Berlin, 3 June, 2007— Chancellor Angela Merkel deplored the violence seen during anti-globalisation demonstrations on Saturday in Rostock. “The images are appalling,” declared Merkel during the “Bericht aus Berlin” newscast shown on German television’s first […]