Ghana's biggest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are promising to a financial breather for local clubs if it wins the crucial December 7 Presidential polls. The NPP say they will pay...
The government has renewed its promise to maintain strict fiscal discipline and avoid the mistakes made in the last elections ahead of the 2016 polls. President John Mahama, who is seeking a second...
A Ghanaian Law Professor based in the United States is asking political parties to challenge in court the 2016 presidential and parliamentary filing fees announced by the Electoral Commission....
French soldiers in Lalain France, in 1794, reported a Rain of Toads. The 2016 presidential race makes one nostalgic for such relative normality. Underneath the media’s current Rain of Toads this...
The Presidential Candidate of the Limann-founded People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Nasigri Mahama, is dead-on-target when he asserts that “Nobody can either join or support the...
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...
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has warned that the December 7 presidential and parliamentary elections could be marred by violence, citing what she calls “the volatile”...
Thy vows are all broken And light is thy fame I hear thy name spoken And share in its shame George (Lord Byron) “I HATE TO SEE these boys in these rags and masks being given an award for that dirty...
As far as presidential positions go, Somalia must rank as one of the toughest in the world. The Horn of Africa country has been mired in conflict, poverty and Islamist insurgency over the past two...
Presidential candidate of the Independent Peoples' Party, Kofi Akpaloo says the main opposition NPP plagiarized his idea when it promised to cite one factory in every district. According to him the...
On the night of July 7, seven American diplomats in Juba left a farewell dinner early and were headed back to the U. S. Embassy, anxious to avoid the city’s deepening chaos, when their two-car...
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said President Mahama’s tenure of office has been nothing short of a disaster for the country, resulting...
The Chiefs and people of the Chakale Traditional Area, in the Wa East constituency of the Upper West Region, have conferred the title “Chief of Patience” on the 2016 presidential candidate of the...
By Kofi Ata It appears when it comes to party politics in Ghana, there is no decency, morality or privacy as far as one is a candidate. I am referring to the publication by the AfricaWatch Magazine...
The Paramount Chief of the Kpembe Traditional Area, Kpembe Wura Babanye Ndefosu II, says the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will secure a good...
Algeria on Thursday said it had evacuated nationals working in the oil field of Port-Gentil, in Gabon, after a deterioration of the security situation there. In a statement by the official APS news...
Tensions are simmering in Gabon after two days of violence over the disputed presidential election, with fears growing over more deaths and detentions. Since results were announced on Wednesday,...
Violence has broken out in the Gabonese capital Libreville after President Ali Bongo was declared winner of Saturday's presidential election. Opposition candidate Jean Ping said two people had been...
Libreville (AFP) - Gabon's president Ali Bongo was set to be declared winner of last weekend's contested election, electoral commission members said Thursday, in a result that risks inflaming...
The decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to heavily involve highly educated professional members of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG) in...
