US and Russia Agree Peace Moves
Russia and the US have announced an agreement on Syria starting with a "cessation of hostilities" from sunset on Monday. Under the plan, the Syrian government will end combat missions in specified...
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Decision Time For Ping As Gabon Court Deadline Looms
All eyes in Gabon were on Jean Ping on Thursday, as the opposition leader had only a few hours left to take his claim of presidential election fraud to the country's highest court. With the clock...
Kufour 4th Republic’s Best President – Akufo-Addo
The presidential nominee of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has described former President John Agyekum Kufuor as the most outstanding president of the fourth republic....
Syrian Forces ‘drop Chlorine’ On Aleppo
Syrian government forces have been accused of dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine from helicopters on a suburb of Aleppo, injuring 80 people. Volunteer emergency workers say people suffered...
Ghana Opposition Woos Voters With Billion-Dollar Spending Promise
The leader of Ghana's main opposition party, Nana Akufo-Addo, climbed from his car, picked up a microphone and made a bold election promise to give every constituency the equivalent of $1 million...
Gabon’s Ping Declares Himself President After Post-Poll Riots
Gabonese opposition candidate Jean Ping declared himself president on Friday, after a disputed election that triggered two days of post-election riots against President Ali Bongo. Violence erupted...
Majority Laughs As Speaker Singlehandedly Crashes Minority
10 a.m.: Parliament House: Recall to consider motion to set up bi-partisan committee to investigate Mahama Some two hours before the Speaker of Parliament would walk in, Ablekuma West Member of...
Dynastic Scion In His Father’s Shadow
Libreville (AFP) - Ali Bongo of Gabon, who has been declared the winner of a disputed election in the central African country, has spent more than half his 57 years in the corridors of power. On...
Spiv Malory Is At It Again Part 2
It is well-composed and quite carefully calculated to sow doubts in the minds of both staunch supporters and swing/floating voters leaning heavily towards the three-time Presidential Candidate of...
Opposition Candidate Lays Claim To Presidency Win
Gabon's opposition presidential candidate Jean Ping has claimed victory over incumbent President Ali Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-rich African nation for nearly half a century. "The decision...
Complete Biography & Profile of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a legal luminary, politician and a businessman. He’s the Presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2016 polls in Ghana. He contested and lost...
Ex-Guantanamo Detainee ‘Happy’ Ghana Accepted Him
The lawyer for the former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef, has said that his client is pleased to have been accepted by Ghana. Mohammed Bin Atef, was transferred to Ghana to...
France Carries out Massive Airstrike; Drops 20 Bombs in Anti-ISIS Raid in Syria
France has carried out a massive airstrike on an Islamic State stronghold in Raqqa, Syria. It struck dozen’s of targets including a command and control center, training camp and munitions...
President Mahama & Wife Jet off to India
President John Mahama has left Accra for New Delhi, India, to participate in the 3rd India- Africa Forum Summit.
He is being accompanied on the trip by the Foreign Minister, Hanna S. Tetteh (MP) and...
First Post-War Voting Underway in Ivory Coast
Ivorians are voting in Sunday’s presidential elections with incumbent Alassane Ouattara fending off challenges from six other presidential contenders.
Preliminary results are expected early in the...
Ghana Joins African States To Celebrate African Union Day
Today Ghana joins other African states to commemorate African Union (AU) Day Today, with the theme "We are Africa".
On 15 April 1958, in Accra, African leaders and political activists gathered at the...
Ghanaians in Burkina Faso Are Safe – Ghana’s Foreign Minister Hannah Tetteh
Ghana’s Foreign Minister Hannah Tetteh has assured that Ghanaians in Burkina Faso are safe. There is increasing tension in Burkina Faso after an army general and a colonel both announced they will...
HEARTBREAKING: Air Algerie Jetliner with 116 Persons On Board Crashes in Mali.
An Air Algerie jet carrying 116 people crashed Thursday in a rainstorm over restive Mali, and its wreckage was found near the border of neighboring Burkina Faso — the third major international...