From all indications, the two time Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo is set to lead the party into the 2016 elections in Ghana. Results trickling in shows Nana Addo clocking triple digits while the other contenders are getting single and double digits. The Electoral Commission is […]
The biggest opposition party in Ghana the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is going to the polls today to decide who leads the party to the national elections in December 2015. Voting is taking place nationwide in 275 constituencies with 140,000 delegates casting their ballots. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo a onetime Attorney General and Foreign
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
Lilongwe, MALAWI — Following Friday’s declaration by the Malawi Electoral Commission, Peter Mutharika has been sworn in as the country’s president after the High Court rejected a request for a recount. Outgoing president Joyce Banda had earlier called for an annulment of the vote citing rigging and computer hacking, but the courts threw out the
Ghanaian opposition New Patriotic Party presidential hopeful Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen was in New York recently. While in the city, he took the opportunity to pay a visit to the New York chapter of the party. His visit however has been skewed by some and seemingly misreported in some media quarters with some suggesting that he
By Kwesi Baako Africa is touted by many as the ‘rising star’; the continent with new opportunities and the place with abounding possibilities for investment. It has also -perhaps in equal measure- gained a certain notoriety for underdevelopment, political instability and social stagnation. Many forums have been sponsored and held by ‘development partners’ but little
