Ghanaians are yearning for the day the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would deliver them from despair and difficulties forced on them by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, Mr. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, an aspiring NPP Chairm…
Some school children in the Jirapa District have commended President John Atta Mills and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for initiating policies and programmes that are impacting positively on their welfare and developmen…
The Convention People's Party (CPP) says it is optimistic that it will rule Ghana again.
"In the year 2010 and beyond, we will remain hopeful, optimistic and committed to our goal of providing good quality governance to Ghana again," …
Mr Kweku Eshun, an aspiring candidate for the General Secretary position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on Thursday charged members of the party to imbibe probity, accountability, freedom and justice which constitute the ideals…
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Yaw Owusu Obimpeh, has urged the party's supporters in the region to prevent petty squabbles and factionalism from eating it up.
They should forge …
Long-time Volta Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kenwuud Nuworsu, has won another four year term at the Party's Regional Delegates Conference on Wednesday.
This extends Mr Nuworsu's mandate up to 2013 from 2001, …
Mr Kofi Opoku-Manu, Ashanti Regional Minister, has tasked Journalists in the Region to stay focused and to contribute meaningfully to its development.
He said, they have a unique role to play in their reportage on programmes and act…
Colonel Cyril Neku (retired), Deputy Volta Regional
Minister, said Government was committed to fighting corruption and that prosecution of people would be on a clear convincing ground.
He urged Ghanaians to exercise restraint to all…
Mr. Mohammed Ibn Abass, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Nanumba North, has appealed to chiefs and people of the area to forgive one another to ensure they entered the New Year with
clean hearts for lasting peace in the traditional…
Agona West branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on Thursday elected new executives at its Women and Youth wings conference at Agona Nyakrom.
Mrs Evelyn Adu, a businesswoman, was elected Women's Organiser in the polls tha…
Mr. Samuel Kweku Adu-Yeboah, the newly elected Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) has stated that the party
would win the Region's 19 Parliamentary seats in the 2012 general election.
He said the vis…
Mr Ambrose Dery, Member of Parliament for Lawra-Nandom, on Friday called on his constituents to bury their political differences and forge ahead for the development of the area.
"Political elections are constitutional and democratic r…
A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Gado Sulemana has admonished people in leadership to resolve to demonstrate a high sense of responsibility in the discharge of
their duties.
They must be humble, ho…
The Polish army will start to withdraw from the mission in Afghanistan in about two years, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said at a press conference in Bydgoszcz on Thursday.
"Now we want to strengthen them ... offer additional t…
Unknown militants damaged two NATO tankers in West Pakistan by opening fire on one of them and torching the other, local TV channel reported Friday.
Police sources said that the incident took place early Friday on the outskirts of ca…
A suspected U.S. missile struck a car in northwest Pakistan's tribal region Friday, killing at least three men in a second attack in less than a day, local TV channels reported.
The morning attack by a drone aircraft struck a vehicle…
Afghan troops detained 19 militants during an operation against a Taliban hideout in Farah province west of Afghanistan on Saturday, a military officer in western region Atta Mohammad
said.
"A unit of Afghan soldiers backed by NATO…
A total of 512 international troops were killed in Afghanistan in 2009, local media reported Saturday.
Among those killed, 448 were in military operations and 64 in other incidents, the English newspaper Outlook Afghanistan quoted Je…
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has ended the "Kimia 2" operation in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces and launched "Amani leo" (a Kiswahili word for "peace today"), according to the military.
The Kimia 2 command of the…
At least 18 members of Colombia's biggest rebel army FARC were killed on Friday during a bombing of their camp, Colombian Ministry of Defense said.
The joint Colombian Air Forces and Army on Friday bombed a camp of the Revolutionary …
The armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility on Friday of firing two rockets from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Thursday night.
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the PFLP armed wing…
The Sissala Union has appealed to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Electoral Commission to consider creating a separate district out of the Wa East District for the Sissala people.
The Union said during…
Vote of confidence to ministerial nominees began in the Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of the Afghan parliament on Saturday.
In the process, the legislators, through secret voting, would approve or reject 24 minister
-designates introd…
Cote d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo reaffirms
that "2010 will be the year of elections" in his country, promising that "everything is ready" for the holding of the presidential vote which has been postponed several times since 2005.
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Political leaders around the world have rung in the New Year with messages reviewing a tough year that just ended and expressing hope for 2010.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet hailed the country's achievements in 2009 and express…
Iran's opposition leader and defeated presidential
candidate Mirhossein Mousavi on Friday urged the government to end its crackdown on opposition protests and release political prisoners.
The Iranian government "should take responsi…
The Iraqi government said Friday it regretted the
decision by a U.S. judge to dismiss the charges against five Blackwater security guards who
allegedly killed innocent Iraqi civilians in 2007.
"The Iraqi government regrets and is d…
China on Friday assumed the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of January.
China will perform its duty as the rotating Council president in an objective and fair way
and work with other Council members to m…
Somalia's hardline Islamist rebel group of Al
Shabaab on Friday vowed it will send fighters to fight along side radical insurgent groups in
Yemen across the Gulf of Aden north of war torn Somalia.
The group, which controls much of …
A senior Palestinian official said Friday that Egypt is exerting efforts to hold a summit meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo.
Ahmed Majdalani, member of the Pal…
Iran has said it is ready to offer humanitarian
assistance to Zimbabwe in times of need and develop to the highest level cordial relations
between the two nations.
Iran's deputy ambassador to Zimbabwe Javad Dehghan was quoted by …
Diplomatic efforts had been accelerated toward the end of 2009 to resume the installed Israeli- Palestinian peace process, but peace would never be achieved in the Middle East without resolving the core conflict over Palestinian issue.
…
Israeli F16 warplanes and tanks had carried out late on Friday night five successive air and ground strikes on targets in eastern and southern Gaza Strip, wounding five people, medics and witnesses said.
The witnesses said that Israe…
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called
an international conference in London to discuss how to help Yemen to tackle extremism.
The United States and European Union had expressed their support for the 28 January meeting,…
A Singapore-flagged chemical tanker was hijacked in
the Gulf of Aden on Friday, the European Union naval force (EU Navfor) said.
The 20,000 deadweight-ton M/V Pramoni was seized when it was heading to Kandla in India, the Northwood-…
A massive pro-regime turnout in Tehran condemned on Wednesday what the participants called "Western plots" against their country, state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Thousands of Iranians broke into streets across the country protes…
Mr. Asiedu Nketia, incumbent General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that he would facilitate the setting up of
NDC Heroes Fund to take good care of people who have suffered for the party.
Mr. Aseidu N…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday condemned a massive bombing attack at a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan that killed over 90 people, vowing to continue supporting Pakistan in its fight against violent extremism.
…
Mr. Asiedu Nketia, National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary, has pledged to facilitate the establishment of NDC heroes' fund to take care of people who have suffered
for the party's sake, if he retains his position.
He …
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged the European Union (EU) to show " sincerity" over Turkey's bid to join the 27-nation bloc.
Turkey has been resolute in the membership bid despite "unfair treatment often …
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe on Wednesday signed a decree to set the election date on Feb. 28, 2010.
The decision was arrived at after discussions and adoption by the cabinet which was chaired by the Togolese head of state.
…
A high-ranking South Korean government official said Thursday that additional talks between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are possible before the six-party talks resume, local media reported.
"I can'…
Spain is aimed to bring Europe out of the economic
crisis during its EU presidency, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said in his New Year message on Friday.
Zapatero said his country welcomes its EU rotating presidency wi…
Michael Bloomberg was sworn in as mayor of the New York City for the third term on Friday.
"I recognize, I understand, that this term is a special opportunity, one that comes with
extraordinary responsibilities," Bloomberg said in h…
Mr Kobina Ade-Coker, a former Sports Administrator was on Wednesday elected Greater Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to steer its affairs for the next four years.
Mr Ade-Coker polled 101 votes to beat the t…
The Afigya-Kwabre District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Kwaku Oppong-Kyekyeku Kaakyire, has pledged the assembly's resolve to ensure that Area Councils in the district become more functional.
This would help the assembly to significantl…
Mr. Emmanuel Adugbire Atenga, Bolgatanga Central Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has urged the youth wing of the party to intensify their campaign for the total
victory of NPP in Election 2012.
Mr. Atenga no…
Ankobra FM, a private radio station based at Axim in the Nzema-East Municipality, has held its 3rd annual children's party at Akoto in the Ellembelle district as part of its corporate social responsibility.
Over 500 children between …
The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), a pressure group, said on Wednesday that its focus next year would be on institutional strengthening, consumer right advocacy, especially poor services in the telecommunication industry.
…
The Asante Akim South District Assembly is to embark on a vigorous revenue mobilisation drive in 2010 to improve on its Internally Generated Funds (IGF).
This is to help address the Assembly's perennial inability to meet its revenue …