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Johannesburg, 19 September, 2008— Often the forgotten heroes of humanitarian assistance, pilots play a critical role in making sure that aid gets to where it is needed most around the world – and sometimes they […]

Mbabane, 19 September, 2008— Swaziland’s humanitarian crises were uppermost in the minds of voters casting their ballots in the parliamentary election on 19 September. “I don’t care about politics, I care about feeding my family. […]

If you cannot correctly spell the name of “Barack” Obama, and instead you choose to spell the first name of the Presidential Candidate of the U.S. Democratic Party with a double “r,” as in Dodan […]

Harare, 12 September, 2008— Hope has been resuscitated among long-suffering Zimbabweans after a power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, was announced late on 11 September. The opposition Movement for Democratic […]

An interesting editorial appeared in the Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper edition of Friday, August 29, 2008. The editorial was limpidly titled “The Assassination Plot against Obama” and decried the allegedly uncovered plot to liquidate the African-American […]

Nairobi, 3 September, 2008— A three-day protest against insecurity and attacks targeting educational institutions in Mogadishu has shut down most schools and left thousands of children out of class, locals said. “Almost 90 percent of […]

Karat, 3 September, 2008— The crowd that filled Konso Mekane Yesus primary school in Karat town, 600km south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, were not pupils, but hundreds of mothers and children forced by […]

I read Mr. Konongo Fordjour’s article, titled “Congo Crisis, Zimbabwe Crisis – Ghana Again?” (Ghanaweb.com 6/28/08) with great sadness, outright nausea and utter embarrassment. I was wracked with nausea because the writer had the temerity […]