Plagiarism at its best!

The newly elected Ghanaian president has begun his administration on a rather embarrassing note after being caught plagiarising former American presidents during his inaugural speech on Saturday. President Nana Akufo-Addo, 72, was sworn in alongside his Vice-President...

China Navy Tests Trump’s Temperament

With only two weeks remaining until President-elect Donald Trump takes the presidential oath, China has already been testing his temperament. Recent air and sea drills of new advanced military weaponry suggest Beijing won’t back away from projecting its power in...

US Marines to return to Afghanistan’s Helmand province

300 US Marines will head to Helmand province in Afghanistan this spring to help a NATO-led mission to train Afghan forces, the Marines said. The move puts Marines back in Helmand, who left in 2014 as NATO withdrew its forces and let Afghan troops lead the fight...

We want a recall-KNUT

“We cannot celebrate an individual yet a generation is buried. We will seek alternative ways if we cannot be listened to,” he said./MOSES MUOKIThe Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) wants the results of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Education...

World Food Programme To Slash Food Aid

Some 300,000 people in the Central Africa Republic, CAR, will as from the end of January 2017 stop receiving food aid from the World Food Programme, WFP, officials announced on January 4, 2017. Agency reports say only 400,000 out of the usual 700,000 vulnerable people...

A Law Unto Herself

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe’s failure to comply with a court ruling demanding that she returns properties seized from a Lebanese dealer Jamal Ahmed reflects gross disrespect of the Constitution by the First Family, human rights defenders and political commentators...