Month: November 2007

Accra, 6 November, 2007— Tension is high in Anloga District in Ghana’s Volta Region after a man died in police custody — the fifth person to die since 1 November when violence linked to a […]

Kinshasa, 6 November, 2007— A senior DRC official has declared the war-ravaged northeastern region of Ituri free of armed groups after 16 senior commanders flew to Kinshasa to join the regular army. “There are no […]

Washington, 5 November, 2007— President Bush honored the recipients of the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony November 5, noting that each of the eight recipients “came to this distinction by […]

Washington, 5 November, 2007— The crackdown on press freedom in Venezuela continues unabated, human rights and press freedom groups say. Over the last six months, the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez has committed more […]

Washington, 5 November, 2007— President Bush pledged to increase U.S. intelligence-sharing and security cooperation with Turkey to confront terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), following a recent deadly series of PKK cross-border attacks from […]

Washington, 6 November, 2007— Pakistan’s president, General Pervez Musharraf, should lift the state of emergency in the country and hold elections as soon as possible, President Bush and other administration officials say. During a November […]

I have written about the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Club House before, vis-à-vis the apparently expedient timing of its donation by Mr. Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, an aspiring NPP presidential candidate. However, in terms of its functional […]

Washington, 31 October, 2007— Africa stands today at a “turning point” in its history, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told an audience in Washington October 31. Addressing business executives, investors, diplomats and Africanists, Museveni said, “Africa […]