Month: December 2010

„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 […]

More than a month after a long-overdue presidential election, Ivoirians still do not know who their president is, trapped in a post-election limbo marked by violence, the tearing up of ballot papers and bitter recriminations […]

Ghana’s stocks measure, Africa’s third-best performer this year, is poised to rally as much as 15 percent in 2011 as companies gain from growth linked to the start of oil output, Databank Group said. The […]

The Danquah Institute (DI), an Accra-based governance think tank, has called on the President of the Republic of Ghana to call on “his brother” Laurent Gbagbo, the President of La Cote d’Ivoire “to allow the […]