Many of the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled their homes following a string of deadly attacks by “terrorist group” Boko Haram in northern Nigeria over recent weeks have not yet been able […]

Population growth and rising consumption by a minority of people around the world are fuelling global land acquisitions and Africa is a “prime target”, says the International Land Coalition. “The best land is often being […]

Wounded civilians from both sides of an escalating conflict between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei state lie side by side in the steaming heat of a hospital ward in the […]

The world’s great mass gatherings – from religious pilgrimages like the annual Haj to Saudi Arabia and India’s huge Kumbh Mela, to major sporting events like the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup – […]

Nana Akufo-Addo’s victory in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential primaries in 2010 was as re-sounding as it was astounding. That Nana Akufo-Addo garnered over 78-percent of the total votes cast nationwide, arguably the highest […]

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 […]

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 […]

Der Vorsitzende des Entwicklungsausschusses der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD-DAC), Brian Atwood, hat dem Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) zu den Fortschritten, die das Bundesministerium seit dem OECD Peer Review 2010 […]