Month: April 2012

Calls for Nana Akufo-Addo to publicly and vehemently condemn Mr. Kennedy Agyepong for allegedly calling for the massacre of Ewes resident in the Asante Region are grossly misplaced. And on the latter score must be […]

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has called for German technological assistance to address the Boko Haram problem confronting his country. Speaking at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, the Nigerian leader […]

Maria Saungweme, 42, an informal trader and single mother from the low-income suburb of Glen Norah in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, uses sewage-infested river water to irrigate her two-acre vegetable plot. “I am not proud […]

With drought conditions chronic in the Sahel, many farmers give up trying to grow crops and head to towns and cities to find work. In Chad many go to the south or to Lake Chad […]

I have yet to read the so-called Green Book, allegedly published by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), touting the purported achievements of the Mills-Mahama government (See “Volta Residents Fuming Over Mills’ ‘Deceitful’ University Achievement” […]

It is definitely a gross understatement to assert that the recent, glorious passing of Mr. John William Hansen (aka Jerry Hansen) brings to closure, an epoch in which Ghanaian popular music epitomized the very best […]

When officials asked everybody in the commune (sub-district) of Talata in Madagascar’s central Amoron’i Mania region to register their land in 2007, it was to be the beginning of a national programme of far-reaching and […]

Sudan and South Sudan appeared to edge closer to war this week amid an escalating confrontation over the oil-rich borderland region of Heglig. Sudan’s parliament approved the mobilization of the armed forces and suspended negotiations […]