Accra – Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG), an advocacy movement against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Ghana, appeared before the Supreme Court today in a case in which one of the defendants sought to challenge a High Court ruling on the court’s jurisdiction to hear a petition brought before it by FSG and three others. In […]
By Lennart Dodoo Monrovia — The Supreme Court of Liberia has ordered the National Elections Commission (NEC) to stay any and all actions in the pending runoff election scheduled for November 7, 2017 in line with the Writ for Prohibition prayed for by the Liberty Party. The Liberty Party requested the Writ of Prohibition and
Former Executive Secretary to President John Mahama, Raymond Atuguba has stated categorically that Abu Ramadan and his colleague who sued the electoral commission over the validity of the voters’ register lost the case at the Supreme Court. According to him, the substantive reliefs that were being sought by the plaintiffs were not granted by the
08/22/2013 President Robert Gabriel Mugabe has been sworn in for a seventh term in office. This follows a massive win over rival Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC after which a petition was filed by the MDC praying Zimbabwe’s Supreme court to annul the polls. However, the MDC subsequently withdrew the petition citing lack of faith
08/29/2013 Ghana’s Supreme Court has thrown out the election petition filed by the opposition New Patriotic Party’s presidential candidate Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo against President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress(NDC). Reading the verdict, Justice William Atuguba gave the breakdown of the main issues in contention and how the judges individually ruled
