Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways
A tale of two airlines: Ethiopian Airlines and Ghana Airways Anis Haffar The in-flight magazine of Ethiopian Airlines – Selamta – adorned the cover page of its Sept/Oct 2015 issue with a picture...
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Burundi Set To Withdraw From ICC
Burundi plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, a deputy to President Pierre Nkurunziza said on Thursday, six months after the court's prosecutor said it will investigate violence...
Ghana/Africa; the Politburo
By Charles Yeboah In an era when physical structures were giving way to soft ones, when one could set up an office on a gadget, when there was no need to erect skyscrapers for the purposes of...
Cowards Don’t Throw Down Gauntlets
By Eric Bawah In the medieval days, the phrase “throwing down the gauntlet” means to challenge or confront someone to a formal challenge or a duel. A gauntlet is a heavy armoured gloves worn by...
Burundi Says Plans To Quit the International Criminal Court
Burundi plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, a deputy to President Pierre Nkurunziza said on Thursday, six months after the court's prosecutor said it will investigate violence...
I’m Not Scared Because I’m Winning the Election
President John Dramani has underscored the need for Ghanaians to retain him in the upcoming December 7 election as President of the Republic of Ghana. An elated Mahama addressing residents in the...
UN Security Council Formally Nominates Guterres To Be Next Chief
The UN Security Council has unanimously nominated former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres to be the next secretary general. The UN General Assembly is expected to meet next week to approve...
My Personal Observation And Concerns On The Implementation Of Act 857
It is with much delight I write this rejoinder to a publication by Dr. K. Nsiah in the Friday, September 9, 2016 issue of THE PIONEER on page four with the title “My Personal Observation And...
My Gov’t Has Laid Solid Foundation For Ghana
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday insisted his government has in the past three years laid a solid foundation for Ghana’s development to thrive. According to him, his administration has...
Mahama Insists His Gov’t Has Laid Solid Foundation For Ghana
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday insisted his government has in the past three years laid a solid foundation for Ghana’s development to thrive. According to him, his administration has...
Cowards Dont Throw Down Gauntlets
In the medieval days, the phrase “throwing down the gauntlet” means to challenge or confront someone to a formal challenge or a duel. A gauntlet is a heavy armoured gloves worn by medieval...
Kenya Failed Obligation To Aid In Kenyatta Probe
The Hague (AFP) - Kenya failed to work with the International Criminal Court in its probe over post-election violence against President Uhuru Kenyatta, the tribunal said Monday, some 18 months after...
Ai Weiwei Exhibition In Vienna
"Two robbers breaking into a museum, devastating, looting and burning, leaving laughing hand-in-hand with their bags full of treasures; one of the robbers is called France and the other Britain."...
10,000 ‘Kayayes’ To Be Absorbed Into Youth Employment Programme
By Nana Ohemaba Kayayeis (head-porters), are mostly young women and men – sometimes below 18 years, who carry loads for fellow Ghanaians, after they have finished shopping in our various markets to...
Rome Olympic Chief’s Fury At Mayor’s Bid Veto
The Italian Olympic chief has reacted angrily to the Rome mayor's decision to reject the city's bid to host the 2024 Games, and has vowed to fight on. Calling the decision "demagogic and populist",...
IMANI Africa, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Franklin Cudjoe and the CIA
Franklin Cudjoe is founding President and CEO of IMANI Center for Policy By Dade Afre Akufu On Saturday September 17, 2016, a dear friend M. Kwadwo Nyamba came to the defense of the “good” work...
Ghanaians Plagued By The Destruction Wrought By Galamsey Can Now Take Their Case To The Icc!
The International Criminal Court (ICC) which was established under a multilateral treaty called the “Rome Statute” (which was adopted on 17 July 1998 and entered into force on 1 July, 2002) is...
Former President Who Championed Euro Dies At 95
Ciampi at a ceremony in Germany in June 2008 Former Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who steered his country into the single currency, has died in a clinic in Rome aged 95. He was the tenth...
Former Italian President Ciampi Dies At 95
The former president of the Italian Republic and central banker, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, died on Friday at the age of 95, the Italian government said. He died in a hospital in Rome after a long...
EU Leaders ‘need Sober Look At Problems’
The European Council President Donald Tusk has called on EU leaders to take a "sober and brutally honest" look at the bloc's problems, in the wake of Britain's shock vote to leave the EU. As they...