Africa
Press Release
Vaccines against major childhood diseases to reach 37 more countries / GAVI Alliance delivers on its promise to tackle diarrhoea and pneumonia GENEVA, Switzerland, September 27, 2011/ — The [Read more]
World News
Europe
Pope Benedict XVI Visits Germany Amidst Protests
The Pope was greeted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff Benedict XVI, the German head of the Roman Catholic Church, has begun his first official visit to [Read more]
Africa
Kofi Busia: A Stimulant For Today’s Democracy
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, CEN Commentator, NY Kofi Busia Ghanaians are enjoying their 19-year-old democracy. Why not! They have spent most of their 54-year statehood in autocratic one-party systems and dictatorial [Read more]
Africa
The President, God, and Progress
Comment/Ghana Development, By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, CEN, NY President John Atta Mills Let’s go into the mind of President John Atta Mills, a PHD in law, and envision with him [Read more]
America
Another 9/11 Threath on US
Washington — U.S. officials have "specific, credible but unconfirmed" information about a potential al Qaeda threat against the United States coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist [Read more]
Middle East/Asia
Crackdown on Syria Opposition Campaigners
The column of military vehicles rolled into the village of Ibleen shortly after dawn on Thursday. Residents said artillery fire and machine gun fire followed soon after. The troops left [Read more]
Middle East/Asia
Russia Mourns Hockey Players Killed in Plane Crash
A day after a plane crash outside the Russian city of Yaroslavl killed dozens of Russian and international hockey players, hundreds of residents and supporters gathered Thursday at the arena [Read more]
World News
Jacques Chirac’s Trial Opens in His Absence in Paris
The trial of former French President Jacques Chirac on charges of illegal party funding during his time as mayor of Paris has opened in his absence. A medical report said [Read more]
Europe
Missing Germans Found Dead in Afghanistan
Two German men who disappeared in Afghanistan last month have been found dead, officials in Parwan province say. The pair vanished near the Salang Pass, north of Kabul. Both men [Read more]
Africa
Mugabe Is Ill!!
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The cable, published by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, cites central bank [Read more]
Africa
Nigerian Airliners Heads for Trouble
Just days after it was announced in Freetown that a new “National” carrier incorporated as Leone Airways will start a joint operations soon with the Nigerian based Arik Air, the [Read more]
Africa
Give AIDS the Red Card initiative launched at All-Africa Games in Mozambique
Maputo, Mozambique, 2 September 2011—The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibé and Mozambique’s Minister of Youth and Sports Pedrito Caetano launched the UNAIDS [Read more]
Africa
West Africa’s Democratic Evolution – African or Western?
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong For sometime, the centre of Africa’s anarchic one-party systems, gory tyrants, brutal dictatorships, self-serving military juntas and hideous civil wars, West Africa is changing and indisputably sowing [Read more]
Africa
The Twisted African Democratic Revolutions
Either in Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Egypt or Tunisia, the African nation-state, from its birth, has been in some sort of undeviating inanimate democratic revolution. The reason is that the African [Read more]
Africa
The International Community and Africa’s Democracy Construct
Kofi Akosah-Sarpong More than ever as Africa gets entwined in the international system, the international community is becoming increasingly part of Africa’s development. Ever more, the international community includes [Read more]