Comment & analysis

Early in September United States President Barack Obama announced that he had carried out a targeted assassination killing the leader of the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance organization in Somalia which has been fighting against the Federal Government and a regional military force for over six year

Fred M’membe, the publisher of The Post newspaper of Zambia, is accused of having committed the crime of willfully and deliberately not meeting tax liabilities since 2011, when the Patriotic Front (PF) government came to power in Zambia.

Today’s events in the UK could turn out to be a political earthquake – the break up of the imperialist war mongering British state. The people of Scotland are voting in a referendum on independence.

In the late 1980s, the Muslim faith in Britain was seen as a beautiful and exotic religion, with mosques almost being seen as part of the attraction sites in the British capital.

President Goodluck Jonathan brought the ‘war on terror’ to the people of North East Nigeria last year with the declaration of a state of emergency. This war hit the world headlines in April when Boko Haram abducted some 300 young women from a secondary school in Chibok.

The box was half the height of the minister’s desk. At the start of the day it was full to the brim with South Sudanese banknotes.

Since Kenya attained independence in 1963, successive regimes have adopted a policy of separating the military from civilian institutions as a means of ensuring civilian rule and avoiding the participation of military or paramilitary units in the machinations of governance.

AGRICULTURAL LANDHOLDINGS POLICY

South African and African higher education institutions must redefine themselves away from being ‘ivory towers’, and with greater urgency pursue a new democratisation mission of their societies, given the spectacular failure of political leadership in the region to entrench genuine democracy.

Yes, Ghanaians are now waking up to the reality that Ghana is in another phase of its perennial ‘crisis of a neo-colonial state’. I heard this phase in the 1970s, but it never seems to go away. As Ghanaians, can we afford to live in our past glory? I am ashamed to say not anymore.