Month: September 2008

I read Mr. Kufuor Appiah-Danquah or is it Mr. Appiah-Danquah Kufuor’s article titled “Mr. President Pardon Tsatsu Tsikata” with indescribable disgust and horror. And I came away from the article fully convinced that the writer […]

I couldn’t stop myself from laughing out loud, and then laughing out my lungs! I am, of course, talking about the abject hypocrisy of the so-called Asomdwoehene (or Prince-of-Peace). On Wednesday, the criminal accomplice of […]

Dili, 26 September, 2008— As a girl, Laura Pina was not expected to slave in the kitchen simply by virtue of her gender. Then she got married. Pina was shocked when she went to visit […]

Bujumbura, 26 September, 2008— Years ago, Mammert Buregeya, a 54-year-old displaced Burundian Tutsi, would probably have refused to live in Muriza “peace village” because that would bring him close to Hutu returnees. “Suspicion between Tutsi […]

Durban, 26 September, 2008— After years of calling on the owners of South Africa’s oil refineries in Durban to upgrade their facilities to reduce pollution, local residents of the eastern port city have decided to […]

Geneva, 26 September, 2008— With the US going through the most significant financial restructuring since the great depression, international aid agencies and NGOs have reason to be wary, observers said. The likelihood that the US […]

Johannesburg, 25 September, 2008— At least six countries in Southern Africa could receive poor rainfall during the critical planting season starting next month, says an early forecast for the 2008/09 agricultural season. Lesotho, Swaziland, most […]

New York, 25 September, 2008— The World Bank today announced a $1.1 billion expansion of its malaria-fighting programmes in Africa at the United Nations Special Session on the Millennium Development Goals in New York. Speaking […]