The Namibia Experience
Sometime after January 7 2017, my two and a half years tour of duty as Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and Botswana would come to an end and I will head back to my homeland Ghana to pursue the...
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Thousands Evacuated From East Aleppo
More than 3,000 people have been evacuated in buses and ambulances from a besieged rebel-held enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo, officials say. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
Aleppo Evacuation Deal Back On
A deal to evacuate the last rebel-held part of eastern Aleppo is back on, opposition fighters say, a day after a previous agreement fell through. Rebel fighters and civilians in the Syrian city had...
Bensouda Tells Off Powerful UN Council Over Inaction On Darfur Atrocitie
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda on Tuesday scolded the United Nations for failing to take action in the case of Sudan’s president, whom the ICC is seeking to...
Trump Mocks Hacking ‘conspiracy Theory’
Donald Trump has poured fresh scorn on US intelligence claims of Russian hackers meddling in the US election. He tweeted: “Can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and WE tried to...
Charlotte Osei’s Press Conference Was Timely, But …
Yesterday, around 5:00pm, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), broke her silence at a press conference, where she called on anxious Ghanaians to allow her outfit put...
Former Envoy Vows To Unseat Incumbent MP
Mr. George Kumi, an independent parliamentary candidate for the Sunyani East Constituency in the Election 2016 has affirmed his conviction to unseat the incumbent New Patriotic Party Member of...
Move Beyond the Peace Rhetoric
Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party has given his unalloyed commitment for peace in the 2016 election but has charged government and statutory institutions to move beyond...
Syrian Forces Capture Key Aleppo Area
Syrian government forces have captured a key part of eastern Aleppo, splitting rebel-held territory in two. State TV said government troops were dismantling mines and explosives and continuing their...
Mahama Lateness Angers Envoys
President John Mahama’s late turn-up to an event yesterday in Accra did not go down well with members of the diplomatic corps. The event was the commissioning of the New Lavender Hill faecal...
Trump Names Nikki Haley As UN Ambassador
President-elect Donald Trump has named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the UN, praising his former critic as "a proven dealmaker". She is the first non-white female...
Children Paying the Price In Battle For Aleppo
Children paying the price in battle for Aleppo A Syrian man carries a girl from a destroyed building after barrel bombs were dropped. A barrel bomb killed a family of six in rebel-held eastern Aleppo...
Aleppo Self-Rule Plan Rejected By Government
A UN proposal to end heavy fighting in the city of Aleppo has been rejected by the Syrian government. Under the plan, rebel-held eastern Aleppo would remain under opposition control if rebel fighters...
American Voters Were Indecisive Towards Woman President-US Ambassador
The United States (U. S) Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson has observed that American voters were not entirely honest about whether or not they were prepared to have a woman as President as they...
Nov. 7 World News Summary At 0030 GMT
WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey on Sunday informed the U. S. House members that FBI has not changed its July advice not to charge Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her use...
Buhari and the Many Battles of His 46 Nominated Non-Career Envoy
Buhari and the many battles of his 46 nominated non-career envoy This is not the best of time for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as it strives to deflect bashings from the opposition...
India and China Cannot Afford Differences On Terrorism
India on Saturday made it clear to China that they cannot afford to have differences on the issue of terrorism and that no country is immune from the menace, a significant statement that comes...
Shift In U.S. Congo Policy Leaves Kabila Exposed
Supporters of Congolese President Joseph Kabila carry his portrait photographs during a rally Shortly after Congo President Joseph Kabila came to power in 2001, the U. S. embassy in Kinshasa sent...
Eastern Aleppo Faces ‘total Ruin’ In Two Months
Rebel-held eastern Aleppo in northern Syria may face "total destruction" in two months, with thousands killed, the UN's Syria envoy has said. Staffan de Mistura told reporters that he was prepared to...
Syrian City Faces Assault As Talks Fail
The Syrian military has announced a new offensive in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where a quarter of a million people are living under siege. Jets pounded rebel positions in the city on Wednesday night...