Dr. Kwame Osei Public Agenda (Accra) We are just about half way through the World Cup and it seems like the Afrikan challenge is seriously faltering if not entirely crushed. Readers may remember that we featured the Afrikan teams that had made it to South Afrika and analyzed their chances of success in the tournament. [...]
Read the rest of this story »source: GFA At every tournament, stars, both old and young emerge from nowhere and the script for Ghana’s Jonathan Mensah is one of such story lines that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa has produced. A surprise addition by Milovan Rajevac ahead of some experienced players, Mensah has shone for the Black Stars after [...]
Read the rest of this story »Petros Kausiyo AS Ghana continue to bask in the glory that comes with securing a quarter-final berth at a World Cup, members of the Black Stars triumphant side have heaped praise on one of the stars to emerge out of their fairytale run at the global soccer showpiece here — winger Andre Ayew. The 20-year-old [...]
Read the rest of this story »Oyet Okwera Plastic bottles lace the entire surface and banks as the muddy water snakes its way to its final resting place. A horrible stench fills the air. I hold my nose, the stench but is no big deal to everyone else; people are going about their business normally. Nakivubo, that age-old drainage channel in [...]
Read the rest of this story »THE recently concluded international microbicide conference in the US, left experts a task of finding an effective way to protect everyone from HIV using microbicides. The conference brought together about 1,000 researchers, scientists, advocates and community leaders. One new phenomenon researchers discovered was that the incidence of anal sex was rising among married heterosexual couples. [...]
Read the rest of this story »Article layout: raw (Reuters) – Dozens of artisanal miners are feared trapped in a collapsed gold mine in central Ghana and some are believed already dead, authorities said on Monday as they battled to pull out victims. “People have died and we believe there are many bodies down there,” said municipality chief Peter Owusu-Ashia, adding [...]
Read the rest of this story »AS Africa waits for its date with destiny on Friday, it’s a remarkable tale that its World Cup dreams are being fuelled by a wild boy who grew up in a poor Berlin neighbourhood in Germany and has a passion for hip-hop music that is pregnant with lyrics about sex and prostitutes.
Read the rest of this story »by: Eden Kironde Ghana has enjoyed an amazing run at the World Cup. Youthful and willing to work for each one another, the West Africans can aptly take up the moniker of the surprise team of the tournament. But not even Ghana’s displays can eclipse the short comings of most of the African representatives at [...]
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