Dr Hilla Limann ...Thanks Be To God!! Dr Hilla Limann...Thanks Be To God!!! Dr Hilla Limann... Thanks Be To God!!! These were the solemn words that echoed through the serene Accra Ridge Church on Sunday January 22, as members of the Form…
UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei wants to give Iran until March to comply with international inspections, despite an emergency meeting set for February that could bring Tehran before the UN Security Council for possible sanctio…
The 29th ordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), approved the conversion of its Executive Secretariat into a Commission.
The Commission, to be headed by a President assisted by a Deputy and seven o…
The Member of Parliament for Bimbilla, Mr Mohammed Ibn Abass on Thursday appealed to the feuding factions in the chieftaincy conflict that has erupted in Bimbilla to exercise restraint and end hostilities.
In a statement issued in A…
Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will meet in the Nigerien capital, Niamey, on Thursday January 12.
The summit will consider proposals for the transformation of the Executive…
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has hailed France's decision to impose a tax on airline tickets that would fuel aid for developing countries.
"The secretary general warmly welcomes the adoption by the parliament of France of a levy o…
The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Yao Obed Asamoah, has urged delegates to the party's Congress to perform their responsibility to the best of their ability and return home as a more united party than they came.
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The newly elected Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Monday expressed gratitude to the rank and file of the Party for their successful conference over the weekend and promised to work hard to meet their expectations.
A s…
A mission of the West African grouping ECOWAS, in Liberia to observe a presidential election, urged the losers Friday to accept the result "with dignity and grace" and winners to "acknowledge victory with humility."
The Economic Commu…
The Suhum Constituency branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has elected a nine-member executive to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years at a delegate's conference at Nankese in the Eastern Region.
The officers w…
The Bolgatanga Central Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the weekend elected a 10-member Executive to steer the affairs of the party for another four years.
Six out of the 10 executive were retained unopposed.…
The Minority in Parliament on Thursday called on President John Agyekum Kufuor to withdraw the appointment of Mrs Gifty Eugenia Kusi from the Boards of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and Goldfields Mining Company Limited.
In…
Iraqis have approved a landmark constitution but analysts say that Iraqi and US authorities must move beyond symbols and nail down ways of curbing the insurgency.
The constitutional referendum on October 15 "led to a split instead of …
President John Agyekum Kufuor has denied allegations that Ghana contributed funds to the Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
A statement issued from the Office of the President's Press Secretary, Mr Kwabena Agyep…
The East German secret police spied on the man who would become Pope Benedict XVI for 15 years, targeting him as one of the Vatican's fiercest opponents of communism, according to a report published on Sunday.
From April 1974 until th…
Immigration with be at the top of the agenda when Morocco and Spain hold summit talks Thursday after around a thousand would-be African immigrants stormed a border fence in the Spanish enclave of Melilla over two consecutive nights, 300 ma…
Mr Sandys Kyei Baffour, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Asante-Akyem Rural Bank was on Wednesday elected Chairman of the Asante-Akim South constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at a delegate's congress at Juaso.
He…
A mile-long (1.5-kilomter) procession of protesters marched through downtown San Francisco on Saturday, decrying US president George W. Bush's handling of everything -- from Iraq to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Demonstrators ra…
Authorities in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland on Saturday warned outsiders without legitimate business there to leave immediately following the arrests of several alleged Al-Qaeda operatives.
In a crackdown ordered after th…
Egypt may be one of Washington's top Arab allies but US envoy Karen Hughes will have her work cut out Sunday when she arrives on a regional trip aimed at improving her country's image.
The new undersecretary of state for public diplo…
Authorities in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland on Saturday warned outsiders without legitimate business there to leave immediately following the arrests of several alleged Al-Qaeda operatives.
In a crackdown ordered after th…
Egypt may be one of Washington's top Arab allies but US envoy Karen Hughes will have her work cut out Sunday when she arrives on a regional trip aimed at improving her country's image.
The new undersecretary of state for public diplo…
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Thursday for an international conference on Iraq by year's end and a timetable for withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, saying they were considered "occupying forces" by many Iraqis.
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Despite progress being made in Iraq, the British troops will stay in the country until conditions improve sufficiently for them to leave, said British Defense Secretary John Reid.
"Any withdrawal of forces will be based on local condi…
The scheduled voting to confirm Mr Ebenezer Ofoe Ceaser as the District Chief Executive (DCE)for Fanteakwa on Friday had to be postponed indefinitely following a court injunction filed at a Koforidua High Court against his nomination by …
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Thursday for an international conference on Iraq by year's end and a timetable for withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, saying they were considered "occupying forces" by many Iraqis.
…
Despite progress being made in Iraq, the British troops will stay in the country until conditions improve sufficiently for them to leave, said British Defense Secretary John Reid.
"Any withdrawal of forces will be based on local condi…
The scheduled voting to confirm Mr Ebenezer Ofoe Ceaser as the District Chief Executive (DCE)for Fanteakwa on Friday had to be postponed indefinitely following a court injunction filed at a Koforidua High Court against his nomination by …
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Thursday for an international conference on Iraq by year's end and a timetable for withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, saying they were considered "occupying forces" by many Iraqis.
…
Despite progress being made in Iraq, the British troops will stay in the country until conditions improve sufficiently for them to leave, said British Defense Secretary John Reid.
"Any withdrawal of forces will be based on local condi…
The scheduled voting to confirm Mr Ebenezer Ofoe Ceaser as the District Chief Executive (DCE)for Fanteakwa on Friday had to be postponed indefinitely following a court injunction filed at a Koforidua High Court against his nomination by …
The media, especially the local FM stations have been urged to avoid inflammatory reports and discussions that could ruin the country's fledgling democracy.
Nana Kwadwo Domfeh, an activist of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) wh…
Egyptian women have launched two separate initiatives, one calling on citizens to wear black clothes and the other a white ribbon, to protest the assault of several women during last week's referendum.
Female activists protesting agai…
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday an "all-out" effort to address human rights problems highlighted by a report from the 46-nation Council of Europe.
At a meeting in the Kremlin, Putin welcomed the 140-page report presen…
Hundreds of riot police armed with hammers and axes on Friday demolished houses and shacks on the outskirts of Harare as a campaign against illegal settlements forged ahead in Zimbabwe.
The demolition, conducted mainly by young parami…
Ethnic Albanian and Serbian officials have shown no signs of compromise in the lead-up to a key meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday to discuss the future of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo.
UN Secretary General Kofi …
"In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes".
Christian opposition MP Nayla Moawad, who made the comment, is one of a few women running for a seat in Lebanon's male-dominated parliament after being propelled onto…
Barely emerging from a political crisis, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi held his new cabinet's first meeting Friday amid stark warnings that Italy's industrial production, competitiveness and employment were in dire need of a boost.
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Chad said Thursday it had resumed its role as a mediator in Sudan's Darfur conflict, raising hopes of renewed efforts to negotiate an end to the two-year-old crisis.
"Chad and the Chadian president are committed to continuing to exert…
Six Iraqis were arrested on
Saturday for allegedly involving in the shooting down of a
Bulgarian helicopter on Thursday that killed all 11 people aboard,
the US military said in a statement.
The statement said that an Iraqi civil…
British Prime Minister Tony Blair hit election arch-rival Michael Howard where it hurt Friday, blasting the Conservative leader's pet policy on asylum and immigration.
Describing Howard's pledges to slap a quota on foreign workers as …
The leaderships of
the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the People's National Convention (PNC) have agreed to endorse the decision of the two parties to unite.
The decision followed a stage reached at the previous Nkrumaist Unity …
Germany fired its ambassador to Switzerland Thursday after he publicly criticized Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer over a policy to stop printing staff obituaries for former Nazis.
A foreign ministry spokeswoman confirmed that Frank E…
The moderate wing of Indian Kashmir's main separatist alliance said Monday it will meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraff when he visits New Delhi this weekend, local media reported.
The All Party Hurriyat Conference has been push…
A forum of stakeholders was held at Wa on Monday to provide a platform to the visiting 16-member mission from the South African based African Peer Review Mission.
The forum was an opportunity to question stakeholders on a range of is…
George Appiah, a 20-year-old unemployed and Kaku Kwasi Ebra, a 15-year-old student in Cote d'Ivoire, appeared before a Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday for stealing a VCD deck.
Ebra, who is a brother-in-law to Appiah told t…
With the UN Security Council deadlocked over key issues in Sudan, the United States on Tuesday announced it would put forward three separate UN resolutions to tackle the Darfur crisis.
After weeks of stalemate on potential war crimes …
Insurgents of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) over the weekend chopped off lips, ears and breasts of seven women in northern Uganda's Kitgum district, a local leader and the official newspaper reported Monday.
The incident occurred n…
Senior allies of French President Jacques Chirac are to appear in court on Monday in a corruption case examining allegations that kickbacks were paid for public works contracts to finance political parties.
A total of 47 people have b…
Zambia's Vice President Lupando Mwape is threatening to quit his party over alleged acts of corruption and bribery to win votes ahead of the ruling party's convention, state radio said on Monday.
Mwape said senior figures within the r…
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