World leaders have reacted with anger after North Korea carried out its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. The South accused the North's leader Kim Jong-un of "maniacal recklessness". China...
I was in the Department of Communication Studies’ library at the University of Ghana one morning when I got a whatsupp message from my editor Dzifa Bampoh saying, “Gakpo, we need to talk when you...
A number of happenings over the last few weeks have got me thinking about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that more than 190 world leaders adopted at the United Nations general assembly...
The African Union is the west’s gendarme in Africa with it’s combined national armed forces increasingly primed to invade and occupy rather than keep the peace. The latest potential victim of the...
North Korea is believed to have carried out its fifth and largest ever test of a nuclear device, South Korean military officials say. South Korean President Park Geun-hye called it an act of...
A suitable environment for businesses to succeed remains an important precursor to economic growth and ultimately the improvement of living standards. At a UN forum held in 2015, UN Secretary-General...
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...
US President Barack Obama and Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte had a brief face-to-face encounter, days after a very public spat. On Tuesday Mr Obama cancelled planned talks after the firebrand Mr...
The Head of United Nations (UN) office for West Africa and Sahel, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has asked political parties contesting the December polls to use legal means to settle electoral disputes. Dr....
A Senior Governance Adviser to the United Nations has observed that heightened tension that characterise political discourse in the country is the result of the nature of the governance system. He...
The flagbearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Greenstreet, has promised Persons with disabilities (PWDs) will enjoy free healthcare, education, transport and job security if he wins...
On Tuesday 6th September 2016 President John Dramani Mahama who had the title Nana Ahobrasehene Toaso I confered on him by the Agonaman Traditional chief was ones again at his usual best as an expert...
The leader of the Nkrumaist splinter party called the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) is not saying that the New Patriotic Party’s policy of building dams in every village in 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...
President John Dramani Mahama has debunked assertions that Ghana is trailing Ivory Coast in terms of development. Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana show aired on Tuesday September 6, Mr...
The US has previously used unmanned drone aircraft to kill AQAP members in Yemen The US military says it has killed 13 members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in air strikes in Yemen. US...
Syrian government forces have been accused of dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine from helicopters on a suburb of Aleppo, injuring 80 people. Volunteer emergency workers say people suffered...
Before the advent of modern day political civilization the idea was clear and simple not concealed as it is today. Africans understood what it meant.What?Liberation!It was all about liberation and a...
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. She is arguably Ghana’s most famous English-language poet, playwright, essayist, novelist and educator. She is also one of the first of the then very few women to have...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed regret Tuesday over his "son of a bitch" remark while referring to President Barack Obama, in a rare display of contrition by a politician whose wide...
