NAIROBI, Kenya – After a hectic week of discussions on the environment in Nairobi, Kenya, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon adopted a 6-month-old lion cub on Saturday. The young lioness, which was found abandoned in Nairobi National Park, will be raised by the Nairobi Animal Orphanage on behalf of Mr. Ki-Moon who named it ‘Tumaini’, meaning […]
By Simukai Tinhu Earlier this year, the age-old rivalry between Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), and Tendai Biti, the party’s secretary-general, bubbled to the surface in dramatic fashion. The MDC’s two leading figures had long held together an alliance at the heart of the party, but this arrangement
Accra, Ghana- President John Dramani Mahama has reassigned Youth and Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah to the Presidency as Minister of State after a woeful World Cup campaign. Information Minister, Mahama Ayariga (MP) is to replace him. Even though no mention of the issues at the World Cup was mentioned it is widely believed that
African leaders called on Thursday for firm action against the rising Islamist militant threat stretching across the continent from Kenya to Mali and pledged to provide the tools for Africa to police its own conflicts. Violence cast a shadow over the opening of the two-day summit of the 54-nation African Union (AU) as Nigerian President
In an effort to interrupt further spread of the Ebola virus in the shortest possible time, the World Health Organization is convening a special meeting of Ministers of Health of eleven (11) countries and partners involved in the Ebola outbreak response in Accra, Ghana from 2-3 July 2014 to discuss the best way of tackling
Ghana’s Loss To Portugal – The Inside Story: Many Ghanaians Were Supporting Portugal Against Ghana. Ghana’s Black Stars are finally out of the FIFA World Cup following a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Portugal. However, it does not seem as if many Ghanaians are as disappointed as they normally are when they are kicked
In what looks like a repeat of the bizarre crisis that hit the Ghana Black Stars camp in Brazil, Nigeria’s Super Eagles have missed a scheduled training session over unpaid bonuses. Reports say the players are claiming they have each been shortchanged by $15,000 of what they were expecting for reaching the Round-of- 16 at the
Ghana is on the verge of being declared a guinea worm free country by World Health Organisation (WHO) if it continues to record no incidence of the disease by the end of 2014. Ghana has not recorded a single case in three years which qualifies the country for certification by the WHO. In that regard, a
By Isaac Bediako Justice ACCRA, Ghana- Two soldiers, a police officer and two others have been remanded into police custody by an Accra Circuit court for allegedly robbing tenants of a household at gunpoint. The soldiers, Emmanuel Obeng Domson and Obed Kwaku Agamati, together with Ibrahim Iddrisu, the police officer, and Noah Mensah, unemployed, in
