Gov’t Urged To Address Mining Concerns
The government has been asked to actively involve people in mining operation communities in the formulation of policies to regulate the industry. Mrs. Hannah Owusu-Koranteng, Associate Executive...
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PPF Asks Gambia Gov’t To Drop Charges Against Journalist
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Yahya Jammeh, President of Islamic Republic of The Gambia expressed concerned over the sentenced of four years of imprisonment to journalist Alhagie...
Trumps Victory And Eventual Presidency; President Sirleafs Concerns; Where I Disagree
Many Americans have and continue to express serious concerns about their president-elect, business executive Donald J. Trump, Sr. While some of these concerns may be legitimate, not all are real or...
Jacob Zuma Survives No Confidence Vote
A motion of no confidence in South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has been defeated in parliament despite a spate of recent corruption scandals. An anti-corruption probe last week raised allegations...
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma Survives No Confidence Vote
A motion of no confidence in South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has been defeated in parliament despite a spate of recent corruption scandals. An anti-corruption probe last week raised allegations...
China Police Official To Head Interpol
A high-level Chinese police official has been elected president of Interpol, the international police organisation, angering rights advocates concerned over abuses and lack of transparency within...
Peace Eludes The Worlds Newest Nation
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence on 9 July, sporadic gunfire rent the air in Juba, the capital city. What many assumed was a celebration of the world’s newest...
Coal Mines, Utilities Ink Long-Term Price Deal
China’s major coal producers and power groups have signed a long-term deal at a fixed price to ensure stable coal and power supplies in the country, in a bid to hammer out a strategy to halt the...
Mohamed Ibn Chambas Visits Sierra Leone
Source: United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) | 5 hours ago Visit to Sierra Leone of Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and...
Six Stories You May Have Missed Because of US Election
Six stories you may have missed because of US election Iraqi Kurdish forces seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from ISIL, an official said While the US presidential race between Donald Trump and...
Fifa’s Fatma Samoura To Visit Sierra Leone Over FA Dispute
Fifa secretary-general Fatma Samoura is to visit Sierra Leone to address the ongoing dispute between the country's football association (SLFA) and local authorities. Football's world governing body...
EC Is Being Oppressive – NDP
The National Democratic Party (NDP) has described as unfair the Electoral Commission’s recent announcement that some 33 errors have been found on the nomination forms of its flagbearer, Nana Konadu...
No-Confidence Motion Against South Africa’s Zuma Will Fail
A motion of no confidence in South Africa's President Jacob Zuma "has no chance of succeeding" when parliament votes on Thursday, the secretary-general of Zuma's African National Congress (ANC)...
New Finance Chief Likely To Hold Course
As China announced the appointment of a new finance minister on Monday, analysts said major fiscal policies will not change and the country can use more policy tools to help anchor its economic...
Paris Agreement Opens New Channels To Global Climate Governance
With the official enforcement of Paris Agreement on Climate Change, every country in the world now faces a test to fulfill their promises in implementing the tasks, the People’s Daily said in an...
‘Men Should Marry 3 Wives To Reduce the Number of Single Women’
Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) secretary general Francis Atwoli sometimes back sparked controversy after he dismissed family planning, saying parents need to get as many children as they...
Ibn Chambas Cautions EC
The United Nations Secretary General Special Representative for West Africa, Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called on the Electoral Commission (EC), the Judiciary and the security agencies to...
Ghana Doesn’t Need IMF, World Bank – Nduom
The flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom has condemned the current and previous governments for resorting to the Bretton Woods institutions to cushion the...
UN Pays Tribute To Truth-Seeking Media Men
The United Nations today (November 2, 2016) paid tribute to the courage of all media personnel who put their lives on the line for the sake of truth. In this vein, the world body has called for...
PPP Won’t Run To IMF For Bailout
Ghana does not need the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for economic success and a Progressive People’s Party (PPP) administration will cause a turnaround in the country’s economy without the...