Car Bomb Attack Hits Mogadishu
A suspected car bomb has killed at least 11 people and injured another 16 when it exploded at a police checkpoint next to a busy market in the Somali capital, police and witnesses said. Witnesses saw...
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Imperial Democracies, Strategic Disorder In A Multipolar World
By 146 B. C., the Mediterranean Sea, a hotbed of endemic battlefield between ancient navies had successfully become the imperial Roman “Mare Nostrum” - our common sea. Rome’s hegemony around...
US and EU Had No Business Dislodging Gaddafi and Saddam – Museveni
Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has said the United States (US) and European Union (EU) had no business invading Libya and Iraq. According to him, that action is partly responsible for the...
Has President Mahama Violated Articles 19 And 20(2) Of ICCPR?
A number of prominent Ghanaians and civil society groups, including the Chairman of Peace Council, Professor Emmanuel Asante and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), have beseeched President...
Senior Al Qaeda Leader Killed In U.S. Airstrike In Syria
The U. S. Ministry of Defense on Tuesday confirmed that a senior al Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. air strike near Sarmada, Syria, last week. Abu Afghan Al-Masri, an Egyptian who joined al Qaeda...
Syria Conflict: Almost One Million Living Under Siege
The number of people living under siege in Syria has doubled this year to almost one million, the UN says. Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Stephen O'Brien said the figure had jumped from 486,700 to...
ISIS Next Place Is Mali
Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by...
Sunni Vs Shia and the Trouble With Islam
The conflict between Sunni and Shia is deeply rooted and intractable, it has existed for almost 1400 years. The divide was traced to 632 A. D, when Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) died and a debate emerged...
A Nonviolent Strategy To Liberate Syria
In early 2011, as the Arab Spring was moving across North Africa and the Middle East, small groups of nonviolent activists in Syria, which has been under martial law since 1963, started protesting...
Ex-Somali Refugee Defeats Minister To Become MP
A man born in a refugee camp in Kenya has defeated a Somali minister to become a member of parliament. Abdullahi Sheikh Abas, 31, was picked by an electoral college to be a federal MP. He was up for...
Lessons From America’s Elections For Ghana
Bulgarian Socialist Ally Rumen Radev, a Russia-friendly newcomer to politics, won Sunday’s presidential election by a wide margin, exit polls showed, prompting Centre-right Prime Minister Boiko...
The Donald Trump Mystery; Lessons For Ghana
Bulgarian Socialist Ally Rumen Radev, a Russia-friendly newcomer to politics, won Sunday's presidential election by a wide margin, exit polls showed, prompting Centre-right Prime Minister Boiko...
US ‘admits Somalia Air Strike Killed Allies, Not Al-Shabab’
An airstrike in Somalia that the US said had targeted al-Shabab actually killed 10 members of an allied local militia, US media report, quoting an unpublished Pentagon investigation. The US says it...
Why Trump Is Pursuing Africans
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election means an uncertain future for Africa. His rival Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a landslide – at least among those in Barack...
Is Africa On Donald Trump’s Radar?
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election means an uncertain future for Africa. Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election means an uncertain future for Africa. His rival...
Soyinka Changes Tune Says He Won’t Destroy U.S. Permit Yet After Trump Win
Soyinka changes tune says he won’t destroy U. S. permit yet after Trump win Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Wednesday, stated that he will not destroy his United States’ residency permit...
I Will Not Destroy My U.S. Residency Permit Just Yet – Soyinka
I will not destroy my U. S. residency permit just yet – Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Wednesday, stated that he will not destroy his United States’ residency permit just yet;...
The Many Troubles That Awaits Next US President
POTUS 45 won't have much time to celebrate. After a bruising brawl of a campaign, the next US commander in chief will inherit a world with the toughest array of foreign policy challenges in decades....
Clinton Seeks To Secure Democratic Vote
As opinion polls suggest Donald Trump is gaining support, Hillary Clinton has been holding rallies in states that had been considered safe for the Democrats. A BBC correspondent says both teams are...
Bomb Plot: ‘Assassination Claim Premature
The media should desist from creating the impression that Ghana is about to go up in flames because a bomb was found close to the residence of a Deputy Minister in an election year, security analyst...