Month: June 2010

DAKAR,  June 4,  2010  – Aid analysts have welcomed some of the international development priorities of Britain’s new coalition government, particularly the commitment to stick to the previous government’s pledge to boost aid spending to […]

New York, June 4, 2010 – The United Nations refugee agency is set to begin distributing assistance this weekend to some 3,600 Ghanaians who fled a violent land dispute in their country and crossed over […]

For some of us who have been observing the vacuous histrionics of the Nkrumacrats vis-à-vis continental African politics, the yearlong celebrations of the centenary birthday anniversary of modern Ghana’s first constitutionally elected premier could not […]

This is a story about the firing of Mr. Mahmood Khadid, the former Upper-West Regional Minister. It is, however, not about either/and/or the merits or demerits of the firing itself; rather, it is about the […]

This day will  never be forgotten. It was just past 07:00 hours on 27 April 1994. There was Nelson Mandela walking out of the polling booth to cast his second vote (regional) in the presence […]

ANKILIBORY, 28 May 2010 – In a tiny shack in Ankilibory village, southern Madagascar, Herintsoa, just 16 years old, recently gave birth to her second child, but it was easy compared to the first one, which […]