The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the currently deeply troubled European Union (EU), citing the crucial role it has played in preserving peace among member nations. Most Norwegians have never wanted to join the EU, but their Nobel Committee praised it for contributing “to peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights” in Europe, and the committee clearly wants that to continue.
The bodies of six people believed to have been killed during a July raid on a camp for displaced persons have been found in a well, an official in the western Ivory Coast town of Duekoue said Thursday.
The dueling running mates turned the lone vice presidential debate into an uncharacteristically feisty affair Thursday night, scrapping over everything from the economy to Libya to taxes.
South African politician Julius Malema reacts angrily to an official report into allegations of fraud involving a company he co-owns.
A Ghanaian court refuses to free an Argentine warship seized in a debt dispute involving the South American nation's creditors.
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday in Abuja, rolled out a N4.93 trillion budget estimates for the 2013 fiscal year before the joint session of the National Assembly.
The spending of taxpayer money on upgrading roads near the rural home of South Africa's president should be investigated, the opposition says.
Oil giant Shell is due to appear in court in the Netherlands charged with polluting villages in the Niger Delta, a case that may set a legal precedent.
Al-QaedaÂ’s presence in Libya is growing every day, the former commander of a special security team in Tripoli told US lawmakers Wednesday at a hearing into a militant attack on a US mission.
The defence lawyer for Col Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, has told the International Criminal Court its reputation would be harmed by a trial inside Libya.
A Nigerian university closes because of violent protests about the lynching of four students accused of stealing laptops and mobile phones.
The creators of Big Bird call on the Obama campaign to withdraw a new advertisement that uses the character to attack rival Mitt Romney
The NDC and the NPP have both made big promises on education, but whose plan is better?
I hate critiquing an academic report based on a media release, but the assertions purported to have been made by a researcher from the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana on the negative effects of urbanization are so outrageous that I have no choice but to react.
The NPPÂ’s Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is daring the devil in Ghanaian voters. He is, indeed, fast working himself into a frenzy at every turn as he ratchets up his political campaign efforts and has now reached the point of pushing his neck into the noose.
Water is undoubtedly a precious natural resource crucial to the survival of man but residents of Abokobi are still struggling to get safe water.
It is quite befuddling to hear the Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, talking so tough on the canker of corruption and how he and his NPP number-two government plans to tackle the menace.
Ever since Nana Akufo Addo announced his now well received and understood, election winning and agenda setting Free SHS Education Policy, which seeks to also prioritise the restructuring of GhanaÂ’s currently failed educational system, Ghanaians have been bombarded with all kinds of laughable resistance to the policy, both from the ruling government and party, the NDC.
How big an impact did Mitt Romney's performance in last week's debate have? Huge. Mr. Romney not only won the night, he changed the arc of the election—and perhaps its outcome. Surveys have him leading the RealClearPolitics average of polls for the first time since securing the GOP nomination in mid-April.
Jerry Rawlings is arguably the biggest control freaking leader that the country has ever produced. I strongly believe that God will be good to Ghana by never allowing our beloved country to produce anybody that comes close to RawlingsÂ’ control freaking platform because the country may never have the kind of people who were able to put up with him for all these years.
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