A Moderate Cleric Open To the World
President Hassan Rouhani has spent three decades at the heart of Iran's revolutionary establishment but is strongly opposed by hardliners for trying to rebuild ties with the West. The 68-year-old...
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Hardline Challenger In Iran
Ebrahim Raisi, the leading rival to President Hassan Rouhani in Friday's presidential election, is a hardline judge with close ties to the supreme leader who spent years in powerful backroom...
WikiLeaks Source Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released
Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for one of the largest leaks of classified documents in US history, is set to walk out of a military prison Wednesday after seven years behind...
Middle East’s Shiite Powerhouse
Iran, the Middle East's second largest power by economy and population, is the Shiite Muslim rival of regional Sunni giant Saudi Arabia. Iran has the region's second largest economy after Saudi...
Iran Votes In Head-To-Head Between Diplomacy and Resistance
Iranian voters will decide the fate of moderate President Hassan Rouhani and his policy of engagement with the West on Friday as he goes head-to-head with hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi. Rouhani has...
Akufo-Addo Government ‘inhumane’
The government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by President Nana Akufo-Addo has proven to be “inhumane”, former CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Sylvester Mensah has...
Michael Moore Filming New Documentary On Donald Trump
Filmmaker Michael Moore is making a documentary on Donald Trump entitled "Fahrenheit 11/9," a nod to his most famous work set in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks as well as the date the US...
Government’s Inconsistency With Free SHS Policy Worrying – IMANI
Policy think tank IMANI Ghana has heavily chastised the Akufo-Addo government for being incoherent in its quest to implement its much-touted free SHS policy. Barely three months to the implementation...
I Won’t Contest NPP National Chairman Post
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako has said that he has rescinded his earlier decision to contest the National Chairman position of the party....
Sly Raps NDC Cadres For ‘future’ Partnership
Mr Sylvester Mensah, who is speculated to be eyeing the presidency in next year’s elections, has interacted with cadres of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) urging them to...
Ibrahim Mahama Best Person To Testify of Real Change In Government – Charles Owusu
A Communicator of the Progressive People Party (PPP) has called on National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters claiming that they are not feeling any positive change in the country to contact the...
NDC Politics Breaking Down – Lord Hammah
A young outspoken member of the main opposition NDC party, Lord Hammah has said his withdrawal from NDC particularly under former President Mahama was based on the ‘decay of politics’ that took...
Kofi Adams Must Be Banished From NDC
A former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejisu-Juaben in the Ashanti Region, Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh has called on the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to sack the National...
Death Hoaxes About African Heads of State Rife
Two heads of state and a former head of state have been declared dead by fake news outlets and spread on social media platforms last week. Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos, Nigerian...
NPP Committing Political Genocide
The Akufo-Addo government is on a mission to purge the civil and public service of all appointees employed by the Mahama administration, Kumbungu MP Ras Mubarak has said. Speaking on the recent...
Ghana-Togo Maritime Fight Looms
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be meeting Togolese authorities to discuss measures to prevent a maritime boundary dispute between the two West African countries, Mohammed Amin Anta,...
If Gov’t Spoonfeeds A Community, People Will Be Lazy
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has emphasised the need for government policies to encourage the private sector to develop and translate into the economy to enable the citizenry to live in...
Stop Demonising ECG, Engage Workers – ISODEC To Gov’t
A policy analyst at the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) says the Energy Minister exhibited bad faith when he took on the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) over its negative balance...
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
Do we expect prayers and God to clean up the mess we create? My attention was stirred by a caption culled from President Nana Akufo Addo’s 2017 May Day Address posted by the Accra based Citi 97.3...
Trump ‘asked FBI To Halt Flynn Inquiry’
President Donald Trump asked FBI chief James Comey to end an inquiry into links between his ex-national security adviser and Russia, US media report. "I hope you can let this go," Mr Trump reportedly...