Month: December 2010

 President John Evans Atta Mills on Monday urged Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and his main contender in the November 28 presidential run-off election, Mr Alassane Ouattara, to allow the rule of law to prevail for […]

Taking steps to control global temperatures is a key issue at the UN talks on climate change in Cancun. Within the next four decades maize prices could rise by up to 131 percent, there could […]

I have not had the fortune to visit the Ivory Coast even though I have some friends from that nation who tell of how nice their capital city and nation used to be. However, the […]

„Das Internet darf einerseits kein rechtsfreier Raum sein, auf der anderen Seite darf man die Möglichkeiten des Internets nicht von vornherein zu sehr einschränken“, sagt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel in ihrem neuen Video-Podcast. Im Gespräch mit […]

Former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, Vice-Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have expressed sadness at the sudden passing away of Squadron Leader Clend Sowu, a founding member of […]

The sudden death of Ms. Doris Asiedu-Sarkodie, 32, was reported in Jamaica, the Caribbean, on Nov. 24, 2010. Ms. Asiedu-Sarkodie, who had taken a brief break from her work as a child-protection specialist with New […]

People across Abidjan shuttered shops and offices and rushed home fearing violence after the Constitutional Council on 3 December declared Laurent Gbagbo winner of Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election – nullifying provisional results released by the […]

Ten years after the signing of an accord designed to move Burundi from civil war to democratic stability, the country has yet to establish transitional justice mechanisms aimed at enhancing reconciliation and bringing to book […]