The Right Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey, Moderator of the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, on Monday appealed to former President Jerry John Rawlings to tolerate and appreciate President John Atta Mills’ style of leadersh…
The Ivorians at the Ampain refugee camp in the Ellembelle District have expressed their unhappiness over the arrest of former President Laurent Gbagbo.
One of the refugees, Kouadwi Patrice, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview …
Former Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has taken a swipe at parliamentary candidates who induce party delegates with money during primaries and described anyone who would indulge in such acts as “enemies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)”…
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which is working to create peace and stability in Somalia, on Sunday, expressed the need for more support and cooperation from member-states.
Mr Wafula Wamunyinyi, Deputy Special Represe…
Some polling station executives in the Tema West Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have appealed for a free and fair parliamentary primary poll in the Constituency.
They said if the rumpus preceding the impending election…
Mama Attratoh II, Queen of Ho-Dome, has reminded President John Atta Mills of his promise to give the Volta Region its fair share of development and said she was not happy about the region’s pace of progress.
Mama Attratoh, the Ch…
South Korea's foreign ministry is reviewing all of its past foreign treaties and agreements for translation errors after taking the blame recently for similar mistakes in a free trade deal with the European Union (EU), an official said Sun…
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be accompanied by as many as three former heads of state on his visit to North Korea slated for April 26-28, a diplomatic source here said Sunday.
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari will j…
North Korea has ordered its people in Libya not to return home, apparently out of fear that they will spread news of the anti-government uprisings in the African nation, a source said Sunday.
In a letter sent to the North Korean embass…
Conflict Citizen Security, Justice and Jobs Key to Breaking Cycles of Political and Criminal Violence: World Bank report 1.5 billion people in countries affected by repeated cycles of
violence, with poverty rates more than 20 percentage p…
Madam Abena Pokuaa Amoah, a lecturer at Southwark College, United Kingdom, contesting the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary primaries in Ejisu-Juaben, has pledged to boost the party’s dynamism across board towards a resounding vict…
The Old Guards Association of National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged the leadership of the party to utilise the elders of the party in efforts to mend its cracks and restore unity.
Unity, they said, was crucial if the party …
Mama Attratoh II, Queen of Ho-Dome, has reminded President John Atta Mills of his promise to give the Volta Region its fair share of development and said she was not happy about the region’s pace of progress.
Mama Attratoh, the Ch…
South Korea's foreign ministry is reviewing all of its past foreign treaties and agreements for translation errors after taking the blame recently for similar mistakes in a free trade deal with the European Union (EU), an official said Sun…
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be accompanied by as many as three former heads of state on his visit to North Korea slated for April 26-28, a diplomatic source here said Sunday.
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari will j…
North Korea has ordered its people in Libya not to return home, apparently out of fear that they will spread news of the anti-government uprisings in the African nation, a source said Sunday.
In a letter sent to the North Korean embass…
Conflict Citizen Security, Justice and Jobs Key to Breaking Cycles of Political and Criminal Violence: World Bank report 1.5 billion people in countries affected by repeated cycles of
violence, with poverty rates more than 20 percentage p…
Madam Abena Pokuaa Amoah, a lecturer at Southwark College, United Kingdom, contesting the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary primaries in Ejisu-Juaben, has pledged to boost the party’s dynamism across board towards a resounding vict…
The Old Guards Association of National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged the leadership of the party to utilise the elders of the party in efforts to mend its cracks and restore unity.
Unity, they said, was crucial if the party …
Cote d'Ivoire's internationally recognized president Alassane Ouattara on Thursday announced the blockade of his presidential rival Laurent Gbagbo's residence in the West African country's
biggest city Abidjan, vowing to restore order and…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Thursday urged the beleaguered incumbent leader of Cote d' Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to step down.
"This is his last opportunity to gracefully exit," Ban said during his visit to the U.S. congress.
Cote…
Pro-Ouattara forces in Cote d'Ivoire affirmed on Wednesday that they had launched an assault on the residence of embattled Cote d'Ivoire president
Laurent Gbagbo.
The spokesman of Alassane Ouattara's government Leon Alla Kouakou said thi…
The besieged Cote d'Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo has told a French television station, LCI, that he would not recognize the victory of Alassane Ouattara who is being supported by France and largely accepted by the international communit…
A founding member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Mintah, has cautioned party loyalists against acts that could thwart the efforts of the ruling body to hold on to
power in the 2012 general election.
Mr Mintah sai…
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday
failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM), after none of the two contestants got the required 93 votes to be declared the winner from the 400-member
assembly.
During the voting only 128…
India and the United States have agreed to hold another round of bi-lateral dialogue on East Asian affairs later this year, the State Department said.
The decision was taken at a meeting early this week in New Delhi.
The Assistan…
Separatists and terrorists in the northern Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir and northeast along with the Maoists committed serious human rights abuses, an official US report has said, even as it slammed the government for extra-judicial …
Libyan government forces intensified shelling of rebels in the eastern city of Ajdabiya on Saturday, while rebels started to strike back with their heavy weaponry in trying to hold the town between capital Tripoli and their stronghold of B…
Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi paid a visit on Saturday to a school in the capital Tripoli, official news agency Jana reported.
The agency said the so-called school is located in an area known as Zanata "whose sound barrier has b…
A police woman attached to a polling unit has been reportedly killed and seven others seriously injured in northeast Nigeria's Borno State when a bomb blast exploded during the ongoing parliamentary elections.
A Xinhua reporter based in M…
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Friday remained critical of Justice Richard Goldstone's refusal to fully squash a United Nations report accusing Israel of intentionally targeting civilians.
Goldstone, a South African justice who led a U…
UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy said here Friday that recent developments in Cote d'Ivoire are troubling.
The situation in the strife-torn West African nation are "very worrying," Le Roy said after he b…
A 75-year old member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged supporters of the various political parties to eschew intolerance and acts of provocation.
Opanin Kwame Agyei said they should accept to ensure some l…
Russia was uncertain that the arrival of the new authorities in Cote d'Ivoire would bring stability to this African country, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
"The enforced change of power may unlikely mean arrival of democracy,…
Israeli F16 warplanes struck several targets in southern Gaza Strip and in Gaza city shortly after midnight on Thursday. No injuries were reported, witnesses said.
The witnesses said that the Israeli warplanes first struck tunnels that th…
The Yemen-based al-Qaida group seized control over swaths of hundreds of kilometers from Lodar city of Yemen's southern Abyan province to southeast Shabwa province's city of Rodhom, near Balhaf gas port, sources close to the group told Xin…
It was a star-studded array at the UN Security Council debate on earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Wednesday, headlined by the organization's secretary- general, two sitting presidents -- of Colombia and Haiti -- former U.S. President Bill Clint…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday voiced his deep concerns about "the deteriorating humanitarian situation" in Libya and and called for efforts "to ensure full access for humanitarian aid" in the North African country.
A state…
The international community's concern about the humanitarian situation in Libya is intensifying, with prolonged conflicts between pro- and anti-government forces, plus intensified airstrikes by coalition forces. Meanwhile, there were also …
U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday night a just concluded meeting with Congressional leadership on budget is constructive, and that he is confident an agreement to avert a government shutdown will be reached.
Obama called House Sp…
The first meeting of the Contact Group on Libya will be held on April 13 in Doha, capital of Qatar, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Thursday.
Speaking at a hearing in front of Senators, Juppe said France is now trying "to conv…
The U.S. government is facing a shutdown as time is running out before the current stopgap budget runs out on Friday, while President Barack Obama failed to reach a compromise Wednesday with Republicans.
Obama talked with House Speaker Jo…
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived here Wednesday evening to hold talks with senior Iraqi officials over the political and security situations here as well as cooperation between the two countries.
According to a press release fr…
Pakistan's army dismissed a new White House report that Pakistan is avoiding direct conflict with the militants in the tribal areas and that Pakistan still has no " clear path" to defeat militants on its soil, official sources said on Thur…
Canada has sent another 200 military personnel to join the NATO-led mission in Libya, a senior officer said Wednesday.
So far, up to 570 members of the Canadian Forces have been sent to the Mediterranean, including pilots, marines and a s…
A group in the Upper West Region calling itself “Friends of Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah” has called on the government to conduct fresh investigations into the murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani in order to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime …
A group in the Upper West Region calling itself “Friends of Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah” has called on the government to conduct fresh investigations into the murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani in order to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime …
Mr Andrew Kpan, the Lawra District Director of Education, has been elected the Presiding Member (PM) for the Nadowli District Assembly, after several unsuccessful attempts.
Mr Kpan, 59, polled 52 votes to beat his only opponent, Mr P…
The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), on Wednesday, unanimously confirmed Captain Rtd Anthony Cudjoe as its new Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE).
Captain Cudjoe was fully endorsed by all the seventy appointed and elect…
President John Atta Mills has urged District Assemblies to place emphasis on sanitation and waste management to rid the towns and cities of filth.
He said it was regrettable that although the government had invested huge sums of mone…