adminDRC army steps up offensive
Goma. — The Congolese army on Wednesday stepped up an offensive against M23 rebels in the country’s volatile east, shelling positions north of the flashpoint city of Goma. Backed by…
Ethiopia-bound UN helicopter crashes
Addis Ababa. — A helicopter en route to South Sudan for use by the UN World Food Programme crashed in Ethiopia on Wednesday, injuring several people on board, officials said.…
Cabinet orders crackdown
Cairo. — Egypt’s cabinet yesterday ordered a police crackdown on protests by ousted president Mohammed Morsi’s loyalists, as European envoys headed for Cairo to try to ease tensions between the…
Heavy rain trigger evacuations
OSAKA. — Heavy rain continued hitting several prefectures in western Japan through yesterday morning, forcing about 300 people in Tottori Prefecture to evacuate from their homes, local press reported. Yesterday…
127 killed in bomb blasts
ISLAMABAD. – At least 127 people were killed and 410 others injured in 27 bomb blasts including six suicide attacks across Pakistan in July, according to official data. The data…
Prison term for Berlusconi
Italy’s top court yesterday confirmed a prison sentence for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in the first ever definitive conviction in a tumultuous career for the billionaire tycoon. The court…
Victory to Mugabe, Zanu-PF!
Akili Secka In 1963, the government of Ghana, led by President Kwame Nkrumah, moved a motion to the United Nations Security Council. The motion stated that Britain should not hand…
Editorial Comment: Time to show leadership in defeat, Mr Tsvangirai
THE absence of violence before, during and after the harmonised elections posed a headache to Morgan Tsvangirai and company as it put their plans of using violence as the reason…
Barbarism in Australian polls
John Pilger The election campaign in Australia is being fought with the lives of men, women and children. Some drown; others are banished without hope to malarial camps. Children are…
Oh, these shameful African ‘politicians’
Akua Djanie In December 2012, Ghanaians went to the polls and the electoral commission officially announced the National Democratic Congress as the winning party, with sitting President John Dramani Mahama…