politics
Ghana Faces Budget Bind; Unplanned Spending Roils Investors
Ghana’s new finance minister faces having to fulfill election pledges to spend more on education and job creation...
Nearly 23,000 Jobs Lost In Two Months
The current government’s pledge to scrutinise all last minute appointments by the erstwhile Mahama-led NDC...
Death Penalty Is A Human Rights Violation – Frank Doyi
The Acting Director of Amnesty International, Mr. Frank Doyi is advocating for the death penalty to be scrapped from...
Govt’s Quick Intervention Saves Ghana From Disgrace
Renovation of the Atta Mills tomb came after Citi FM’s Monday report on the delapidating state of the late...
DRC Opposition Leader’s Body To Return Home After Weeks of Wrangling
The body of Congolese opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi is to be repatriated next week, several weeks after his...
To Counter Turkey, Damascus Sidles Up To Kurds
Worried over Turkish advances in Syria's north, the Damascus regime has formed an alliance of convenience with the...
Special Prosecutor Won’t Witch-Hunt – Andah Prods Ayine
The Member of Parliament for Ewutu Senya West, George Andah, has described as “irresponsible” comments by a former...
Israel Soldier Who Shot Palestinian Appeals Conviction
An Israeli soldier sentenced to 18 months in prison for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant appealed against...
Fillon Refuses To Quit French Election Despite Charges
French centre-right presidential candidate Francois Fillon has said he will fight on, as he announced that a judge was...
Court To Investigate Alleged Brutality On Police Officer
The government will conduct full-scale investigations into the alleged brutality meted out to a police officer at the...
Gov’t Initiates Steps To Mediate Dagbon Chieftaincy Dispute
Government has initiated re-conciliatory procedures in an attempt to resolve the chieftaincy stalemate in Dagbon and...
Minority Slams Gov’t For Rash Sacking of MMDCEs, Other Appointees
The Minority in Parliament has criticized government’s approach to the removal of some heads of government...
Algeria’s Invisible President To Mark 80th Birthday
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has rarely appeared in public since a crippling stroke in 2013, marks his...
Former Minister ‘mathematically Certain’ Special Prosecutor Will Target NDC
Former deputy Attorney-General Dominic Ayine has expressed concern the Special Prosecutor's office to be created by...
There’s No Capital To Revive Komenda Sugar Factory
About $16 million will be needed to revive the factory Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has expressed...
Zimbabwe Nurses Start Indefinite Strike
Their main demand is that the government pay out 2016 bonuses State-employed nurses in Zimbabwe have begun an...
2017 Budget To Focus On Stimulating Growth, Job Creation
Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta is expected to announce the abolition of import levies and taxes among others on some...
Special Prosecutor Won’t Witch-Hunt – George Andah Prods Ayine
The Member of Parliament for Ewutu Senya West, George Andah, has described as “irresponsible” comments by a former...
‘Rotten’ Delle-Led CPP Leaders Must Go
Some constituency executives of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in the Eastern Region are demanding the...