The local Black Stars squad concluded their three-game friendly duels in Kenya on Sunday with defeat to Kenya Premier League side Gor Mahia. Ghana, preparing for the start of the African Nations Championship tournament – CHAN lost 2-1. Ezekiel Odera and Collins Okoth scored for the hosts with Ghana’s consolation coming from an own goal. [...]
Read the rest of this story »ARTICLE BY: EKWOW SPIO-GARBRAH, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO THE USA & MEXICO At his New Year’s Press Conference, H.E. President John Evans Atta-Mills presented Ghana’s foreign policy stance on Cote d’Ivoire as one which respects the territorial sovereignty of its neighbour, seeks to use peaceful diplomatic means to resolve the ongoing electoral dispute, and puts a [...]
Read the rest of this story »The ECOWAS Commission yesterday lauded the move by the African Union to give mediation another chance in efforts to resolve the Ivorian crisis, indicating that it was an appropriate decision. Victor Gbeho, President of the ECOWAS Commission said in an interview on the sidelines of the ongoing AU Summit here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that [...]
Read the rest of this story »The leadership crisis in the People’s National Convention is deepening as the group calling itself the Interim Management Committee intends to organize an emergency congress to elect new national executives of the party. A statement signed by Basili Wasai, Chairman of the IMC says they have overwhelming endorsement from the party’s Council of Elders and [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Food and Drugs Board has raised the alarm over the distribution and sale of what it says are fake corned beef products on the market. The Board has arrested a man said to be a retailer of the dangerous products. A statement signed and issued by Dr. Stephen K. Opuni, Chief Executive Officer of [...]
Read the rest of this story »President John Evans Atta Mills has called on African leaders to be driven by shared values that will ensure the integration of the African continent. “We know that the ingredients of these shared values include transparent governance, free elections, human rights issues, cultural development, gender sensitivity, equality and, most important, economic emancipation,” he stressed. Addressing [...]
Read the rest of this story »“I have a dream that one day my two daughters will live in an America where they will be judged not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr., at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC., USA, on August 28, 1963. Some are born to a [...]
Read the rest of this story »The International Monetary Fund says it is worried about the rate at which government’s expenditure is growing and its implications on public debt. The Deputy Director of the African Department of the fund Sharmini Coorey was responding to a question from Joy Business via the webcast of a news conference in South Africa on the [...]
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