Vice President John Dramani Mahama at the weekend gave the assurance that government would not abandon any development project in Kumasi and the Ashanti Region.
"Work on most of the projects in the Kumasi metropolis have been stalled…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the political crisis in Libya and other North African countries would not affect the supply of petroleum products in the country.
"However, as Libya is a member of oil Producing and …
Mr Alexander Agyena Sarpong, New Juaben South constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated that the party was strong and solid and would surely retain the constituency seat come 2012 General Elections.
Mr Sarpon…
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has sacked a number of high-ranking police officials, the Kremlin press service said on Friday.
On the list, most of the sacked top officials were in charge of interior issues and police forces in Russian…
Twenty-seven people were killed in renewed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday, said a statement issued by the SAF on Friday.
"SAF forces on Thursday morning attacked rebel…
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's cousin and one of his closest aides, Ahmed Gaddafi al-Dam, said he resigned from his all posts in Libya, the pan-Arab Al-Arabiya TV said, citing an e-mail sent from al-Dam's office on Friday.
Belonged to Ga…
The first batch of 400 Thai workers who were evacuated from Libya to Turkey will board an aircraft to Thailand and are expected to arrive in Bangkok on Saturday, the deputy director general Prawit Kiangphon.
Prawit said that for their saf…
A total of 131 Malaysians have been flown out of Libya via a special chartered aircraft, Tunis Air, to Tunis, Tunisia.
According to a statement released by Malaysian Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday, the aircraft also evacuated 55 other…
Yemeni Interior Ministry on Thursday directed its security agencies to raise vigilance for possible infiltration of al-Qaida militants into the capital as the agencies were busy with maintaining the order of the ongoing protest rallies.
T…
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci appointed Edita Tahiri head of Kosovo's delegation for the dialogue with Serbia, and she will represent Kosovo in the dialogue with Belgrade sponsored by the European Union, announced the Kosovo governmen…
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, will order an investigation into a report that some military officers used illegal means to solicit more funding for the war there, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursda…
South Korea cannot agree to resume six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs unless the illicit nature of Pyongyang's uranium enrichment is clearly defined first, a senior official said Friday.
"We have to get the (U.N.) Securi…
A second South Korea-chartered plane has flown out of Libya as part of Seoul's efforts to evacuate its nationals from the North African nation engulfed in bloody clashes between protesters and government forces, the foreign ministry said S…
The UN Human Rights Council has unanimously passed a resolution recommending suspension of Libya from the Geneva-based body and decided to conduct an independent probe into violations by the Gaddafi regime, which has launched a bloody cra…
A 20-year-old Saudi student, arrested by the FBI for plotting to bomb US nuclear plants and former President George Bush's Dallas home, is expected to plead not guilty to the charges.
Khalid Aldawsari appeared at a federal courthouse …
India and 14 other members of the UN Security Council have agreed to hold yet another meeting of the powerful body to consider sanctions against the Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya to end the brutal crackdown by forces loyal to him against…
President Barack Obama has announced unilateral sanctions against Libya freezing the assets in the US of Muammar Gaddafi, his family and loyalists.
"By any measure, Muammar el-Gaddafi's government has violated international norms and …
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday inaugurated Mr Ken Kanda, immediate past Director of State Protocol, as Ghana's Ambassador
and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
He administered the Oath of Office, Oath of All…
Mr Isaac Adawele Atesige,Second Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in charge of Upper East Region, has announced his intention to contest the party’s primaries for the Chiana-Paga
Constituency.
In that case the 36-year-o…
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik said Friday that his government "never" has considered reunification with North Korea through absorption despite protracted military tensions between the two sides.
"The North Korea policy of t…
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang could visit South Korea this year as part of high-level exchange visits between the two countries, a diplomatic source said Friday.
Seoul has extended an invitation to Li, and China is positively conside…
South Korea and the United States on Friday conducted a joint air force drill to enhance their coordination in search and rescue for pilots stranded after an emergency bailout on enemy soil, officials said.
The drill, held in South Kor…
South Korean ambassadors to Cameroon, D.R. Congo and Nigeria said that the continent of Africa is "the last market" for South Korea to reach out to, thanks to its wealth of energy and natural resources.
In an interview with Yonhap News…
A South Korea-chartered flight left for Libya on Friday to evacuate hundreds of South Koreans from the turmoil-laden country, the foreign ministry said, after delays due to congestion in the Libyan airport and other problems.
The Egypt…
The United States said Thursday it will continue to raise North Korea's uranium enrichment program in the international arena to pressure the regime to take permanent steps toward denuclearization.
"Just because at one moment one step …
The Obama Administration Friday appeared to be moving ahead with proposals to impose sanctions on the authoritarian Gaddafi regime of Libya which
has been using lethal force against its own people resulting in hundreds of casualties.
…
US President Barack Obama has welcomed the decision of the Algerian government to lift emergency after 19 years and termed it as a significant step towards listening the concerns of its people.
"This is a positive sign that the Govern…
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would travel to Geneva next week to address a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council and mobilize the international community against the Gaddafi regime of Libya which has been using lethal force again…
Stating that arrested American national Raymond Davis is a diplomat of the US Embassy, the White House Friday asked Pakistan to release him in accordance with the Vienna Convention which provides him the diplomatic immunity.
"Davis wa…
France on Wednesday supported Kenya's effort for the retention and upgrading of the Nairobi- based UN Environmental Program (UNEP) headquarters into a fully- fledged UN organization.
Visiting French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Devel…
The military of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday said the DPRK would do its best to improve the north-south relationship to guarantee the peace and stability of the Korea Peninsula, the official news agency KCN…
The United States is considering a "full range of tools and options" including sanctions in response to Libya's use of force against protesters, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said on Wednesday.
"We're looking at a full range o…
Seven ruling party representatives in the Yemeni parliament quit the party Wednesday to protest what they called "repression" by the party against peaceful protesters demanding change of power, one of the resigned representatives said.
"W…
Twenty-eight Palestinian organizations in East Jerusalem decided Wednesday to boycott the U. S. official and non-governmental organizations, in protest of the U.S. veto against an UN anti-Israeli settlement resolution.
Hatem Abdul Kader, …
Denmark's ruling coalition and some main opposition parties have agreed on a two-year plan for the country's comprehensive engagement in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Lene Espersen said Wednesday.
The agreement on the Helmand Plan 2011-20…
The European Union on Wednesday activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism to support the evacuation of EU citizens from Libya.
Through the EU Commission's Monitoring and Information Center ( MIC), all countries participating in the mech…
Arabs residing in South Korea on Thursday called for the democratization of Arab states as defiant demonstrators have been waging oft-bloody anti-government movements.
As reports surfaced that the control of Libyan leader Muammar Gadha…
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak instructed his government Thursday to closely monitor growing political unrest in the Middle East and map out strategies to counter its fallouts, according to Lee's office Cheong Wa Dae.
Lee was pre…
A former prime minister of Malaysia on Thursday rejected sanctions as a way of inducing change in the provocative regime of North Korea, saying the country's people should be left to change their own government as has been happening in the…
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday stressed the importance of regional security cooperation and pointed out inter-Korean military tensions remain a major stumbling block.
"Concerns about North Korea's persistent nuclear w…
South Korea and the United States see dialogue as a key means of dealing with North Korea, but the communist nation should first prove that it will be serious about fulfilling its commitments if talks are held, Seoul's ambassador to Washin…
President Lee Myung-bak once likened his single five-year presidency to running on flatland, not on a mountain with a descent following an ascent.
The comparison aptly represents his will to continue to work diligently through his tenu…
As the number of refugees landing on Italian shores continues to rise and Libyan gas supplies to Italy have been cut, the Italian government on Wednesday expressed concerns about the implications of the violence in Libya.
"We are very wor…
The Central Regional Chairman of the NDC, Mr Samuel Adu Yeboah, has urged the NPP, especially its parliamentarians, “to play matured politics” and stop the petty politicking.
He cautioned that if such immature politicking is not stop…
Mr James Krampah, an Assistant Director, at the Gomoa West District Directorate of the Ghana Education Service, has commended President John Evans Atta Mills for honouring the promises he made during the run-up to the 2008 general election…
The Youth Wing of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has identified strong parliamentary participation and representation as a tool to wrest power from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, in the 2012 general election.
…
Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, First Deputy Speaker, on Wednesday ruled to strike off the amendment to clause 23 of the Petroleum Revenue Management Bill 2010 which sought to allocate ten per cent of oil revenue to Western region.
He said the…
Debate on President Mills’ 2011 sessional address began on Thursday in Parliament with divergent views from both majority and minority sides on the actual state of the nation.
On Thursday February 17 2011, President Mills delivered t…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday held a close-door meeting with members of the Constitution Review Commission at the Osu Castle in Accra.
Details of the meeting are not yet known but it is believed that members of the Commis…
Professor Samuel Amoako, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, on Thursday declared his intention to contest the seat by taking part in the upcoming constituency primary of the party.
Speaking to …
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