The besieged Cote d'Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo has told a French television station, LCI, that he would not recognize the victory of Alassane Ouattara who is being supported by France and largely accepted by the international communit…
A founding member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Mintah, has cautioned party loyalists against acts that could thwart the efforts of the ruling body to hold on to
power in the 2012 general election.
Mr Mintah sai…
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Friday
failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM), after none of the two contestants got the required 93 votes to be declared the winner from the 400-member
assembly.
During the voting only 128…
India and the United States have agreed to hold another round of bi-lateral dialogue on East Asian affairs later this year, the State Department said.
The decision was taken at a meeting early this week in New Delhi.
The Assistan…
Separatists and terrorists in the northern Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir and northeast along with the Maoists committed serious human rights abuses, an official US report has said, even as it slammed the government for extra-judicial …
Libyan government forces intensified shelling of rebels in the eastern city of Ajdabiya on Saturday, while rebels started to strike back with their heavy weaponry in trying to hold the town between capital Tripoli and their stronghold of B…
Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi paid a visit on Saturday to a school in the capital Tripoli, official news agency Jana reported.
The agency said the so-called school is located in an area known as Zanata "whose sound barrier has b…
A police woman attached to a polling unit has been reportedly killed and seven others seriously injured in northeast Nigeria's Borno State when a bomb blast exploded during the ongoing parliamentary elections.
A Xinhua reporter based in M…
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Friday remained critical of Justice Richard Goldstone's refusal to fully squash a United Nations report accusing Israel of intentionally targeting civilians.
Goldstone, a South African justice who led a U…
UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy said here Friday that recent developments in Cote d'Ivoire are troubling.
The situation in the strife-torn West African nation are "very worrying," Le Roy said after he b…
A 75-year old member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged supporters of the various political parties to eschew intolerance and acts of provocation.
Opanin Kwame Agyei said they should accept to ensure some l…
Russia was uncertain that the arrival of the new authorities in Cote d'Ivoire would bring stability to this African country, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
"The enforced change of power may unlikely mean arrival of democracy,…
Israeli F16 warplanes struck several targets in southern Gaza Strip and in Gaza city shortly after midnight on Thursday. No injuries were reported, witnesses said.
The witnesses said that the Israeli warplanes first struck tunnels that th…
The Yemen-based al-Qaida group seized control over swaths of hundreds of kilometers from Lodar city of Yemen's southern Abyan province to southeast Shabwa province's city of Rodhom, near Balhaf gas port, sources close to the group told Xin…
It was a star-studded array at the UN Security Council debate on earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Wednesday, headlined by the organization's secretary- general, two sitting presidents -- of Colombia and Haiti -- former U.S. President Bill Clint…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday voiced his deep concerns about "the deteriorating humanitarian situation" in Libya and and called for efforts "to ensure full access for humanitarian aid" in the North African country.
A state…
The international community's concern about the humanitarian situation in Libya is intensifying, with prolonged conflicts between pro- and anti-government forces, plus intensified airstrikes by coalition forces. Meanwhile, there were also …
U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday night a just concluded meeting with Congressional leadership on budget is constructive, and that he is confident an agreement to avert a government shutdown will be reached.
Obama called House Sp…
The first meeting of the Contact Group on Libya will be held on April 13 in Doha, capital of Qatar, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Thursday.
Speaking at a hearing in front of Senators, Juppe said France is now trying "to conv…
The U.S. government is facing a shutdown as time is running out before the current stopgap budget runs out on Friday, while President Barack Obama failed to reach a compromise Wednesday with Republicans.
Obama talked with House Speaker Jo…
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived here Wednesday evening to hold talks with senior Iraqi officials over the political and security situations here as well as cooperation between the two countries.
According to a press release fr…
Pakistan's army dismissed a new White House report that Pakistan is avoiding direct conflict with the militants in the tribal areas and that Pakistan still has no " clear path" to defeat militants on its soil, official sources said on Thur…
Canada has sent another 200 military personnel to join the NATO-led mission in Libya, a senior officer said Wednesday.
So far, up to 570 members of the Canadian Forces have been sent to the Mediterranean, including pilots, marines and a s…
A group in the Upper West Region calling itself “Friends of Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah” has called on the government to conduct fresh investigations into the murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani in order to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime …
A group in the Upper West Region calling itself “Friends of Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah” has called on the government to conduct fresh investigations into the murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani in order to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime …
Mr Andrew Kpan, the Lawra District Director of Education, has been elected the Presiding Member (PM) for the Nadowli District Assembly, after several unsuccessful attempts.
Mr Kpan, 59, polled 52 votes to beat his only opponent, Mr P…
The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), on Wednesday, unanimously confirmed Captain Rtd Anthony Cudjoe as its new Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE).
Captain Cudjoe was fully endorsed by all the seventy appointed and elect…
President John Atta Mills has urged District Assemblies to place emphasis on sanitation and waste management to rid the towns and cities of filth.
He said it was regrettable that although the government had invested huge sums of mone…
The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly on Wednesday unanimously confirmed Captain Anthony Cudjoe (Rtd) as its Metropolitan Chief Executive.
All the 70 members of the assembly voted for him.
Capt Cudjoe said he recognised the e…
Mr William Neequaye, Assembly member for Zabu Zongo Amoakrom Electoral Area in the Akuapem South Municipality, on Tuesday elected a Presiding Member for the Assembly after four rounds of voting.
Mr Neequaye, who is an Electrical and …
Mr Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, Member of Parliament (MP) for Suame and Minority Leader in Parliament, has said his priority was to promote the socio economic wellbeing of his constituents.
According to him, he would want to see improv…
Madam Patricia Appiagyei, former Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, who is contesting the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Asokwa Constituency Parliamentary seat, has pledged to work hard to win more floating voters for the party.
She wou…
Government would allocate 300 units of the STX housing project to Members of Parliament (MPs), Vice President John Dramani Mahama has announced.
He said the move would not only bring all the legislators to the same area and environme…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) can go ahead to investigate Alhaji Baba Kamara, Ghana’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, who was named in the Mabey and Johnson bribery cas…
Samuel Nana Kojo a 29-year-old gardner was on Wednesday sentenced to eight years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for defiling a 13-year girl.
This was after the court presided over by Mrs Georgina
Mensah-Datsa had found him g…
Mr Gong Jianzhong, Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, on Wednesday said over 15,000 Ghanaians who applied to visit China in 2010 were issued with visas.
He said Ghanaians, who visited China, did so for various reasons including transaction…
The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Samuel Adu Yeboah, has described as unfounded the allegation by former President Jerry John Rawlings that some leading members of the NDC are buying votes ahead o…
The Kwahu North District Assembly on Wednesday approved Mr Ibrahim Issaka as the District Chief Executive.
He polled 75 votes out of the 89 votes cast representing 93 percent.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Issaka, a 31-yea…
President Evans Atta Mills arrived in the Brong Ahafo capital of Sunyani, Tuesday morning, to begin a three-day tour of the region, during which he would inspect and inaugurate some completed projects.
The President travelled on an A…
Global Youth Network Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), geared towards promoting peace, has called for a stop to the politicizing and blame games out of the Dagbon issue.
It expressed worry “about the way the issue wa…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has poured indignation at what he says is vote-buying by some leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the national delegates congress to decide who leads the party to the 2012…
The newly elected Bolgatanga Constituency Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mohammed Ibrahim Akumbey, has pledged to initiate moves to ensure a merger between the CPP and the Peoples’ National Convention (PNC).
He noted…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in collaboration with the National Organising Committee (NOC) of the annual National Constitution Week celebration, on Tuesday outlined month-long nationwide activities.
The 2011 cel…
Mr Edmond Oppong Preprah,one of the candidates contesting the Asante-Akim South New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary primaries, has pledged to introduce innovative ways to strengthen the party’s finances at the constituency level.
…
Mr Abuga Pele, National Coordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), has declared his intention to contest the National Democratic Congress (NDC) primaries of the Chiana-Paga Constituency in the Upper East Region.
He…
The Agona West Municipal Assembly has confirmed Mr Emmanuel Kweku Tetteh as the Municipal Chief Executive.
Mr Tetteh, a lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba,(UEW), polled 43 votes out of the 44 members of the Assembly with …
The Gurkhas who have been on the forefront of battles for the British Army in Afghanistan and Falklands are to face the axe in UK's latest defence ministry redundancy programmes.
The UK-based Brigade of Gurkhas will lose as many as 15…
In an apparent softening of its attitude against India, Pakistan has withdrawn its opposition to New Delhi's participation in a preparatory conclave on the security and reconstruction of Afghanistan to be held in Ankara next month, a media…
India and Pakistan had decided to keep aside controversial issues like terror camps in PoK, infiltration or Balochistan at the Home Secretary-level talks and discuss liberal visa regime and release of prisoners to create a positive atmosph…
Out to woo voters for the upcoming Assembly elections in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party has now promised state assistance to Christian devouts for travelling to…
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