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Something very serious is going on in Ghana right now. Presidential elections are coming up in December so as you would imagine, there are a lot of rallies, talking, debating and impossible promises going on.
This is what I mean. Most of the...
Sudan’s president has warned that attempts to prosecute him on charges of waging a genocidal campaign in Darfur are undermining the peace process aimed at stopping the violence.
Africa already is suffering from “climate shocks,” the president of Ghana told a 160-nation climate conference Thursday, joining a chorus of calls to speed up the pace of talks on a new agreement to rein in carbon emissions.
Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said Wednesday, sounding a promising note after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by confrontation among industrial and developing countries.
A new U.N. report urges countries to phase out energy subsidies, saying they often waste money, do not always help the poor and are bad for the environment.
The old shore road to Totope is now under the sea, and when developers began carving out another one, it was washed away so often they abandoned it. Now the road to this village is just a track across the sand.
Years ago, no one thought twice about felling the rainforest around this village in West Africa.
From confronting Russia to dealing with climate change, Barak Obama’s selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential candidate Saturday was seen abroad as adding weight and depth to the foreign policy of a potential Obama administration.
Delegates at a key U.N. climate conference made headway Friday on a plan to encourage developing countries to regulate carbon emissions by focusing on their largest industries.
Negotiators meet here this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming.
Two British teenage girls left prison Thursday after serving nine-month sentences for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Ghana in laptop computer bags, prison officers and the girls’ lawyers said.Lawyer Sabine Zanker said the two were in good spirits as...
by Trevor Chesterfield
On the face of it, charges of divisive boardroom politics decided how Norman Arendse – aka Stormin’ Norman to many in International Cricket Council circles - should make his surprising announcement that he had quit as...
Single tourists and other backpacker-mass-tourists slipping into Ghana have resorted to preying on truant and delinquent kids idling on the beaches and streets by luring them with money, immigration abroad and other gizmos. This is the sordid...
Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong calls himself the snow leopard but he surely didn’t leap like one at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Are - the Ghanaian lacked pace in the qualification race for the giant slalom in the men’s event.
Kwame was a...
Ashaiman women have vowed to march nude and sleep with the Deputy Prime Minster of Local Government & Rural Development, Maxwell Kofi Jumah. This is in protest of the Ashaiman-Adenta municipality’s decision to make Adenta the capital of Ashaiman. Yaa...
Did you know that cultural dances converge on the funerals of the deceased in Africa? Adowa, the funeral dance is danced in all parts of Ghana. It ceremonies the funeral with graceful, dignified walking movements and today is performed at festivals...
British oil and gas company Tullow Oil has discovered 600 million barrels of oil off the Ghanaian coast, illustrating the growing importance of Africa in efforts to quench the world’s thirst for energy.
Oil driller has earlier expected about 250...
The World Bank has approved a £110million aid package to Ghana to fight poverty. It is notable that 78.5 percent people of Ghana are making their both end meet at only 1 $ a day.
According to the 1991 government report, 51.7 percent of Ghana...
Just hours after averting the FA quarterfinal snare, the fascinating Ghana midfielder Michael Essien has agreed to a new five-year deal that will keep him at Stamford Bridge through 2012.
Playing in the second season for the club, Essien has been a...
Women really have a harsh life in South Africa, they are susceptible to various atrocities specifically those who are engaged in petty trading or major market promoting foodstuffs and household effects.
They not only have incurred losses in business...
As part of the ‘16 Day Campaign on violence and gender issues’ organized by ROZEE Foundation, a Ho based non-governmental organization Mrs. Hilary Gbedemah, a legal practitioner, urged the native women to turn down the shackles of ignorance of the law as...
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President Bush, left, and first lady Laura Bush, second left, welcome Ghana’s President John Kufuor, right, and his wife Theresa Kufuor, to the White House, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, in Washington for a State Dinner.
