Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Africa’s largest peacebuilding organisation, has called on the African Union (AU) to re-engage Kenya’s two leaders as part of efforts to resolve the unfolding political crises in that ... Read More

Raila Odinga says he wants to create "a proper democracy" in Kenya The Kenyan government has declared the main opposition National Super Alliance’s offshoot, National Resistance Movement (NRM) as an illegal entity. According to a special gazette notice issued today under ... Read More

The Kenyan authorities “violated the public’s right to information” by blocking broadcasts of TV channels that defied a ban on live coverage of the the symbolic inauguration of Raila Odinga as “the people’s president”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. The ... Read More

Raila Odinga says he wants to create "a proper democracy" in Kenya Kenya's main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has declared himself the "people's president" at a controversial "swearing-in" ceremony in the capital. Thousands of his supporters attended the event, despite a ... Read More

Robert P. Jackson - US Ambassador to Ghana Ghana lost more than $24 billion between 2010 and 2016 as a result of insufficient power supply and outages, Mr Robert Jackson, the United States (US) Ambassador to Ghana, has said. Mr Jackson, ... Read More

President George Weah Liberia’s newly sworn-in President George Weah pledged to cut his own salary by a quarter on Monday, in a nationwide address in which he warned of tough times ahead for a “broke” country. “The state of the economy ... Read More

Paul Kagame - Rwanda President The outgoing Chairperson of the African Union (AU), President Alpha Condé of Guinea, has handed over the headship of the continental body to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda with a call on the members of ... Read More

Robert P. Jackson - US Ambassador to Ghana Mr Robert Jackson, United States Ambassador to Ghana has added his voice to the growing calls on government to pass the Right to Information Bill (RTI) to show that the country is ... Read More

Sisi Egyptian politician Mousa Mostafa Mousa said on Monday he would compete in presidential elections, hours before a nomination deadline was set to make President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi the sole candidate after withdrawals and a boycott call. Several leading opposition figures ... Read More

William Hanna, Head of EU Delegation Ambassador William Hanna, the Head of European Union Delegation to Ghana, has urged Ghanaian exporters to add value to their products in order to attract lower tariffs on the European market. He said Ghana’s exports ... Read More