Year: 2011

While heads of state and negotiators gathered behind closed doors at the 17th conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, more than 500 women from across Africa arrived by the busload […]

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) is recommending an increment in the capitation grant from next academic year. CHRAJ is also calling on the government to ensure that the grants are released […]

Savvy politicking is far less about conscientious forthrightness, unalloyed truth and honesty, and so I don’t expect any key figures among the top-echelons of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to take Mr. J. H. Mensah […]

Just several days ago, a nondescript group of shameless thugs, graffiti artists and gangsters ran an editorial on Ghanaweb.com parading as the maiden editorial of some newly established rug called The True Statesman, not to […]

News reports that the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo desecrated a mosque in Damongo by urinating on its walls during his recent visit to the area came as no surprise to some of us. The persistent recourse […]

By flitting from one political camp to the other at the least prompting, Dr. Sekou Nkrumah isn’t doing anything good to shore up his political fortunes. He seems to be in deep trouble as he […]

Während die UN-Klimaverhandlungen im südafrikanischen Durban noch laufen, kündigte der Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, Dirk Niebel, an, die Unterstützung des südlichen Afrika beim Klimaschutz mit zusätzlichen 120 Millionen Euro weiter auszubauen: *Unter den […]

Am 6. und 7. Dezember 2011 fanden in Lilongwe die entwicklungspolitischen Regierungsverhandlungen zwischen Deutschland und Malawi statt. Bundesentwicklungsminister Dirk Niebel: *Deutschland hat die entwicklungspolitische Zusammenarbeit an die veränderten Rahmenbedingungen in Malawi angepasst. Grundlegende demokratische und […]