Month: December 2011

Selon les donateurs, les travailleurs humanitaires et les responsables gouvernementaux, les besoins humanitaires résiduels ne sont pas entièrement financés parce qu’il règne une certaine confusion sur la disponibilité des avoirs libyens dégelés. Les donateurs ont […]

Thunderous chanting by thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir Square echoed on Falaky Street, hundreds of metres away, but fava bean seller Ashraf Ibrahim could find no reason to join in the revolutionary fervour. “The revolution […]

Ghana has had several of such politicians, starting from when partisan politics was first allowed in the late 1940s to date. Most of those who stood against Nkrumah’s CPP were no match and were easily […]

I read Mr. Yaw Asare Adu-Otu’s open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron with the disdainful snort that it more than deserves – actually, the letter was addressed to the Ghana High Commissioner to Great […]

The CPP’s Paa Kwesi Nduom now says that he doesn’t want the press or anybody to refer to him as a “presidential aspirant.” I don’t know what he has seen to warrant this prohibition, but […]

Today, the people of South Africa are ruled by a government led by the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa. The path to this destination was long and hazardous, painful, bloody. It was full […]

Residual humanitarian needs in Libya have not been fully funded because of confusion over whether unfrozen Libyan assets are available, donors, aid workers and government officials said. Donors have been reluctant to hand over more […]

High up in the Himalayas in Nepal is a glacial lake that has been growing in length by 60 metres a year, threatening to burst its banks as rising temperatures in the region cause the […]