Ethiopia’s List of Banned Activities
Ethiopia has imposed severe regulations under a new six-month "state of emergency" as it faces unprecedented levels of unrest across the country, a first in the government's 25-year rule. The...
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Ethiopia Detains 1,600 Under State of Emergency
The Ethiopian authorities have detained more than 1,600 people under the state of emergency, a government minister has told the BBC. A statement, quoted by state-affiliated FBC website, lists arrests...
Key Battles To Look Forward To
Every two years it comes along and splashes joy, spectacle and drama all over the continent. The African Cup of Nations is great, spellbinding and a time when we can pick out football as the ultimate...
David Shinn Explains Ways To Engage Africa
Despite conflicts and instability in some parts, Africa’s fast growth and development, at least during the past decade, has attracted several external countries mainly from Asian region, European...
‘More Than 1,600’ Detained In Ethiopia
Ethiopia's security forces have detained more than 1,600 people under a state of emergency imposed on 9 October to end a wave of anti-government protests, a tally of figures published by the...
Why Are Voltarians Leaving Rawlings To His Fate?
It is quite strange that those ungrateful cabals in the NDC Party could go to an extreme length of plotting evil against the very person whose brainchild (NDC Party) has made them ‘somebody’s’....
EU Gets Tough On African Migrants
'No more Mr. Nice Guy': EU gets tough on African migrants Migrants crossing the Sahara desert into Libya ride on the back of a pickup truck outside Niger Encouraged by their success in halting a mass...
Donald Trump’s Last Chance
I have a confession to make: I'm not sure how much more of this election I can take. After months scouring newspapers and websites for every drop of political news, wringing every bit of gossip from...
Media Hijacked By Cabal Blocking My ‘transformation’ Message – Mahama
It was 12. 27 am, well past the bedtime of many people. But His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama is no ordinary person. He is the President of the Republic of Ghana, and for him, time pales into...
When You Come Across Someone With His Beard Caught On Fire.
A popular admonishing Akan proverb goes, “When you go to find someone with his beard caught on fire, you had better fetch water to place beside yours”. This proverb is directed at warning people...
Revolutionary Islam And Regime Change In Ethiopia
With ethnic uprisings spreading across an Ethiopia now ruled by martial law there is only one nationally based organization in place to lead the eventual regime change in the country and that is the...
Seven Things Banned Under Ethiopia’s State of Emergency
Ethiopia's government has declared a six-month state of emergency in the face of an unprecedented wave of violent protests. Activists in the country's Oromia region has been holding demonstrations...
Dangote Shakes Ghacem; Stabilises Cement Price
The management of Dangote Cement Plc says the company is well positioned to become the leader of the cement industry in Ghana and Africa within the shortest possible time. The Group Head, Corporate...
Bracing Up For the Post AGOA Period
Next time you pick up a sporting gear or a pair of jeans in a U. S. mall, do check the label. It may have been made in Lesotho; a small mountainous and land-locked country completely surrounded by...
Audit Exposes How Employees, Suppliers Wrecked Kenya Airways
On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, a Kenya Airways employee in charge of treasury and controls, received the first of several payments from the collapsed Dubai Bank — $20,000. By the end of June of...
Kenya Ranked 3rd On Access To Credit In Sub Saharan Africa
Kenya is ranks third in Sub Saharan Africa for access to credit, a survey by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales shows. Kenya trails Rwanda and Zambia for ease of credit...
Ghana Making Progress In Road Safety – NRSC
May Obiri Yeboah, the Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), says Ghana has made commendable strides in the attainment of the targets under the National Road Safety Action...
Is It Becoming A Crime To Compete For Ghana?
Is it becoming a crime to compete for Ghana? On 29th August, 2016, Sports Minister Hon. Nii Lante Vanderpuye in an interview on Happy FM said his outfit had no money to buy tickets for the Black...
Dummkopf! Frau Merkels Ethiopian Fiasco
Dummkopf! is the word that comes to mind when seeing Frau Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor sharing the stage with the Ethiopian Prime Minister while that same PM’s death squad's were opening fire on...
I Hope To Coach the Black Stars Team One Day
Uganda coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevi? has put himself forward to coach the Black Stars in future. The Serbian trainer has received widespread plaudits after masterminding his side's goalless drawn...