A Member of Ghana’s parliament Ras Mubarak has called on the Nobel Committee to strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of the Peace Prize conferred on her in 1991. Ras Mubarak says Suu Kyi is complicit it the reported campaign of genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Speaking in an exclusive interview with […]
Jun 26, 2017 (GIN) – Botswana has declared three days of national mourning after the death of former President Sir Ketumile Masire, aged 91. Sir Ketumile, often known as Quett, who led the country from 1980 to 1998, is credited with being the architect of the country’s famed stability, reports the AFP news agency.
Africa House at the New York University invited President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to address a Town Hall meeting on his visit to New York. In his welcome address, Dr. Yaw Nyarko, moderator of the event touted the progress Ghana has achieved over the years, proof of which is the absence of news in the
A former Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Mr Kojo Bonsu, has welcomed the decision of the assembly to probe his administration. While maintaining that the assembly’s decision was a normal practice, he insisted that his hands were clean. “They should go ahead; I have nothing to fear,” Mr Bonsu, who is currently
A Criminal High Court presided over by Justice Edward Charles Ekow Baiden has remanded ‘Galamsey’ Kingpin AISHA HUANG, the 31-year-old Chinese woman suspected to be one of Ghana’s most notorious illegal miners and her three other Chinese colleagues in Prison custody. According to immigration prosecutor Peter Klaver Antuo, it took them several hours before they
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced that this year’s ban on drumming and noisemaking commences from Monday 8 May to Thursday 8 June, ahead of the annual Homowo festival. The AMA has advised that during the period of the ban, the usual form of worship should be confined to the premises of churches/mosques and
Child Rights International is calling for the arrest and prosecution of parents who engage their children in illegal mining. According to the organisation, its latest findings on child exploitation in mining communities point to an alarming increase in the engagement of children as labourers on mining concession sites with at least four in every five
Heads of churches in the Ashanti region have resolved to assist the government in the ongoing fight against illegal mining locally referred to as galamsey. The Christian group says it cannot keep mute on the issue because their silence against the menace emboldens the accomplices. Addressing the media in the Ashanti region Tuesday, Right Reverend
I have followed media discussions of British High Commissioner Jon Benjamin’s letter to the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament with much interest as the Ranking Member of Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. In contrast to those who have questioned why the said confidential letter was leaked to the media, I take a different view. I am
President Akufo-Addo has said threats by some illegal mining operators that they will vote against him in the 2020 elections cannot stop his fight against the galamsey menace. “I have been told some of the people engaged in illegal mining have threatened to vote against the NPP in 2020 if I crack the whip on
