Month: October 2007

At another time, all he would have done would have been to simply cry to his boss and fingered his tormentors in order to get his critics and assailants dumped in the slammer. No questions […]

At a recent campaign rally in the Awutu-Efutu-Senya District of the Central Region, the former chairman of Ghana’s main opposition party, the so-called National Democratic Congress (NDC), appeared to write the obituary of the Rawlings-led […]

Oil has made us billions and fuelled our economic stability, but oil has also become the bane of our existence. For some, it is a curse that has caused poverty and corruption, but for others […]

Sana, 1 October, 2007— The Somali consulate in Yemen’s southern province of Aden has said it is worried about the increasing number of smugglers’ boats being used to ferry African migrants, mostly Somalis, from the […]

Beirut, 1 October, 2007— Lebanon’s tussling factions are headed for a stalemate, settlement, or war, and international actors as much as local ones will decide which, analysts say. The presidential vote which was to be […]

Nairobi, 1 October, 2007— “When I arrived home they told me my wife was in the hospital and that she’d been shot while she sat in our bedroom,” said Ricardo Alexandre Santino da Silva, a […]

Washington, 28 September, 2007— The new U.S. regional military command for Africa (AFRICOM) will have a distinctly different mission from its sister commands: it will focus on helping African militaries handle conflict and implement African […]