This week the warlord Gédéon Kyungu Mutanga surrendered in southern Democratic Republic of Congo with about 100 of his fighters. Instead of arresting him, local officials in the provincial capital of Lubumbashi gave Gédéon a celebratory welcome. No doubt as a political gesture to the government, Gédéon wore a shirt with a photo of President […]

On 13 October the members of the Security Council were briefed by Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on conflict prevention, including in Burundi, Jamal Benomar, on the status of the implementation of resolution 2303 (2016). The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern over the political situation and the lack of progress in […]

When the United Nations’ General Assembly welcomed world leaders to New York City in September, it also, hosted a high-level summit on refugees and migration for the first time in its history. The summit highlighted the particular need for policies to realise migration’s development potential. By integrating migration, including forced displacement, into the Sustainable Development […]

Six months after the abduction of 159 children from the Gambella region of Ethiopia, 68 remain unaccounted for, two UN human rights experts today pressed Ethiopian and South Sudanese authorities to urgently resume joint efforts to ensure the return of the remaining missing children. The future of children in the Gambella region will be forever […]

Over 38,800 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are sheltering at the UN protection of civilian (PoC) sites in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, according to a recently completed biometric registration exercise. While the majority of these IDPs have been sheltering at the UN base, known as UN House, since the crisis erupted in December 2013, […]

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Director for Africa, Neil Wigan had calls on the Prime Minister, the Minister for Commonwealth and Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs, the Secretary General at the Presidency and several other key interlocutors covering Prosperity, Security and assistance to refugees and displaced persons in Cameroon by the UK. Neil Wigan […]

A group of suspended polling station officers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Akropong constituency have vowed to vote against the party’s parliamentary candidate, Ms. Nana Yaa Dokua. They said they were going to give their votes to an independent candidate, on December 07. Mr. Ammishaddai Ansah, their spokesperson, told a news conference at […]

Africa’s financial environment is as competitive as other developing and high income regions in some countries, but access to finance remains a challenge, according to ICAEW (The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales). In its report Economic Insight: Africa Q3 2016, the accountancy and finance body notes that whilst some countries have excellent […]

Mr David Duncan, the Chief of Water Sanitation Health (WASH), has said about half a million pupils in 3,900 schools in the Volta Region have been targeted to be sensitised to Hand Washing with Water and Soap (HWWS) using tippy-taps. Mr. Duncan was speaking at the Global Hand Washing Day celebration and the launch of […]

The aim of the project is to reduce morbidity and mortality from paediatric fracture through prevention education and by improving the clinical care provided by doctors, nurses, allied healthcare workers and primary caregivers. The project is also to instil knowledge of trauma prevention strategies among parents and primary caregivers as well as to provide appropriate […]

The challenge, he said, was undermining the Centre’s efforts towards developing the creativity of the people. Mr. Dagbee announced this at the Regional Cultural and Arts Festival held in Wa, as part of preparations towards the National Cultural and Arts Festival next month. The event was under the theme: “Promoting a culture of peace for […]

Building a successful middle class is the newest mantra on the lips of policy makers and would be policy makers, but whether the framework to do so has been devised is a question we can ponder over. One knows in time like these good intensions do not address the imploding challenges that are pivoting the […]

In order to blend well and adjust when travelers visit a new country, they need to have forehand information about the day-to-day activities of local people. The usual trends may differ from country to country although certain activities remain the same. A fair idea of what the local people do on specific days at certain […]

As the 2016 elections draws closer, the economic performance of Ghana has taken centre stage in the campaign of the two major parties, the NDC and the NPP. Whilst the NPP talks about how the economy has been messed up and destroyed by the President Mahama led NDC, the NDC on the other hand always […]

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has accused the state-owned media, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation of favoring the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the allocation of airtime and space for political party campaigning ahead of this year’s election. The anti-corruption campaigners said its report on the abuse of incumbency and electoral corruption revealed the NDC […]

More numbers of allergies in both adults and children would also be recorded due to the high amounts of hydrochloric acid being released into the atmosphere, she added. These were stated during a panel discussion on Climate Change and its impacts on public health at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), on Monday. Mrs McCarthy […]

“I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble” (Mark Twain) “Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that […]

I have been studiously following the controversy and heated debate swirling around the erection and/or installing of the life-size statue of India’s independence movement icon and legendary civil rights spearhead Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi with keen interest (See “Government to Relocate Gandhi Statue from the University of Ghana” Citifmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 10/5/16). But until now, I […]

A €380,000 EU grant has been signed with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) after ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly committees met in the European Parliament premises today. The funded action aims at improving coordination and implementation of trade facilitation reforms in Central Africa countries. The EU grant will support the countries of the […]

Not too long ago, we profiled two major scientific publications on Nkrumahism by the eminent economist, mathematician, philosopher, historian, logician, management scientist, financial and policy analyst, and statistician Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere. We gave our readers the following information: 1) “The Theory of Philosophical Consciencism: Practice Foundations of Nkrumaism” (http://adonisandabbey.com/book_detail.php?bookid=231) (ISBN: 978-1-909112-66-7) 2) “The Theory […]