Month: August 2011

For many years now, activists of the NDC have pointed accusing fingers at all manner of people and organizations as being against the party and aligning with their arch-rivals (the NPP) to ditch it. The […]

Every morning, Julia Aukot walks 17km to eastern Kenya’s Isiolo town in search of work so she can feed her six children and ailing husband; the journey is punishing, but as her family’s sole breadwinner, […]

The UN refugee agency has sent a team of experts in several disciplines to a remote area of eastern Ethiopia where some 18,000 Somali refugees are in urgent need of aid after fleeing their country. […]

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today called on all sides of the conflict in Libya to ensure that the thousands of third-country nationals trapped in Tripoli and other areas by the continuing fighting […]

Nearly a decade ago, I pointed to Pele’s Brazil as the sterling example for the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to follow, if, indeed, the country is to become a highly respectable soccer power and a […]

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency James Victor Gbeho on Monday, [22nd August 2011], called on immigration operatives in Member States to work toward the achievement of a borderless Community through effective implementation […]

A bill before Ghana’s parliament aims to improve mental health care and encourage more health professionals to enter the sector by tackling one of the greatest impediments to both – stigma. “Stigma is the top […]

Palestinian families in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are facing increasing financial woes this Ramadan, as the Palestinian Authority (PA) juggles with its dwindling budget. August salary payments for the PA’s estimated 150,000 employees, about […]