Year: 2012

The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 2009, also known as the Kampala Convention, came into force on 6 December; it is the world’s first legally binding instrument […]

هناك فرص كبيرة بأن يكون الوباء القادم في العالم مرضاً حيواني المنشأ مثل 60 بالمائة من الأمراض المعدية الموثقة حالياً التي تصيب الإنسان. ويقول الخبراء أنه حتى بعد مئات الآلاف من الوفيات البشرية بسبب الأمراض […]

Chances are high the world’s next pandemic will be a disease originating in animals, like 60 percent of current documented human infectious diseases. Even after hundreds of thousands of human deaths from zoonoses (diseases transmitted […]

In legalese, natural disasters are termed “acts of God,” the implication being that they are beyond human control or predictability. So it may have seemed an impossible task when John Beddington, UK government chief scientific […]

The National Peace Council (NPC) has condemned the press conference by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Saturday evening, which the party announced that it had secured a first round victory with 51.3 per cent […]

Electoral Commission Chairman Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan has announced that the Commission will declare the results of Friday’s election within 72 hours after the close of poll. “We normally give ourselves 72 hours to deal completely […]

Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, held a narrow lead in provisional results as people finished casting ballots after the process was extended to a second day because of malfunctioning voter-identification machines. Mahama had 50.2 percent […]

The Electoral Commission has denied allegations that it has contracted an organisation to collate results on its behalf. It explained that the ballots are counted openly at the polling stations and the results are signed […]