Sarcastic JA Kufour

Sometimes if you have a shallow record full of big potholes you try to fend off questions by sounding sarcastic when put on the spot. Other times when you do not know how to defend your own record, you answer questions by being acerbic. I mean those who normally have nothing important to say to convince people about their so-called achievements that they have been trumpeting, have the tendency of just throwing jabs to fling people off the main issue. And that is exactly what ex-president Kufour did during an interview with Net2 TV, a station that was set up with the help of the NPP government.

Conference on global economic crisis

A two-day symposium coordinated by the Evian Group at IMD and the German Marshall Fund of the United States with IMANI Center for Policy & Education of Ghana, and Mthente Research of South Africa, warned against neglecting Africa in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Obama distances himself from Jackson saga

They were the two most famous African-Americans in the world: President Barack Obama and Michael Jackson.

Fast track remand cases, Attorney General’s Department urged

Bolgatanga, July 13, GNA – Mr. Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, has appealed to the Attorney General’s Department in the region to fast track court procedure on remand cases to decongest the prisons.

Ghana still on a high as Obama party departs

The crowds have gone but euphoria remains after historic presidential visit Ghana was slowly returning to normal yesterday after hosting President Barack Obama on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since becoming president. For many Ghanaians the visit was seen as the homecoming of a son of Africa to the land of his ancestors.

Sudan women ‘lashed for trousers’

A group of Sudanese women has been flogged as a punishment for dressing “indecently”, according to a local journalist who was arrested with them.

‘Nazi guard’ Demjanjuk is charged

Prosecutors in Germany have formally charged alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder in World War II.

Obama engages the world

With a series of rousing international speeches, President Barack Obama has definitively recast American foreign policy, shunning the Bush administration’s leadership-centric diplomacy and engaging directly with the people of the world.

You, African youth arise – Obama screamed

So far, he is the century’s symbol of inspiration. The US president Barack Obama speaks and the world, or at least his intended audience, moves. His latest major audience of a specific target was the African continent. Speaking in Accra two days ago, Obama shared with the world what the policy of his administration in Washington is going to be for Africa. It was clear that democratic accountability and human rights are some of the issues that are going to be supreme. Yet if inspiration was anything to go by in his speech, then it came out clearly that the first African-American US president spoke to the young of what is arguably the poorest continent – Africa.

IMANI Alert: Play with fuel supply, play with fire

If less than catastrophic ocean conditions can send a country’s fuel supply completely awry then you can safely conclude that there are considerable underlying problems with the country’s petroleum procurement sector.