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Two important official reports published in the UK in July and September 2016 have confirmed that the imperialist impulse which had informed the political attitude of many Western ruling groups to perpetuate their neo-colonialist hegemony over Africa has not disappeared. In this wide ranging piece, the former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, analyzing the findings …
Quietly but surely, Equatorial Guinea, with the benefit of oil revenues, is transforming itself into a modern country. Between 2009 and 2011, it built a new gleaming and beautiful city, called Sipopo. The country has set itself the target of 2020 for transforming itself into an emerging nation. With eight years to go, the government …
Ghana’s Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has vehemently denied that he promised a man whose case was pending before the Supreme Court that he could deliver a “successful outcome” for a payment of US$5 million. But Akwasi Afrifa, the former lawyer for the man at the center of the allegation, Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI, insists …
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Ghana’s December 2020 general election was a big shambles. There was unprecedented political violence, as seven people were killed during the election and its aftermath. The Electoral Commission announced the result of the presidential election with several mathematical and computational errors, and changed the figures several times. The National Democratic Congress party and its candidate, …
A very colorful character, former Ghanaian president, Jerry John Rawlings, was given a four-day national funeral at the end of January 2021. In death as in life, controversy followed him: One of his close friends revealed in an emotional tribute at the funeral that Rawlings had told him only weeks before, after his mother’s death, …
After nearly 10 years of work, Ethiopia has almost finished building its massive Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile River, and is beginning to fill its 74-billion-cubic-meter reservoir. But Sudan and especially Egypt, which have historically controlled the lion’s share of the Nile’s waters, have refused to come to an agreement with Ethiopia, the source …
The United States’ first Black president, Barack Obama, gave an emotional and inspiring speech at the funeral of Rep. John Lewis, an icon of the civil-rights movement, in Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church on July 30. Obama said he owed a great debt to Lewis, whom he described as a “man of unbreakable perseverance” and …
One of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first challenges in keeping his pledge for a new era of cleaner government is right inside his own party in the person of Ace Magashule, who is now secretary-general of the African National Congress. Magashule has built up his power by creating a network of corruption and dark deeds to …
Our editor, Steve Mallory, traveled to the Norwegian capital Oslo to investigate more deeply into the controversy surrounding the recent abortive attempt by Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to buy two properties in Oslo for Ghana’s newly opened embassy – one for the chancery and the other for the ambassador’s residence – …
At last count in early September, 3.7 million Rwandans (60% of the electorate) had signed a petition asking their president of 15 years, Paul Kagame – whose mandatory second term ends in 2017 – to run for a third term. The president claims he had no role in this effort to extend his rule, but …