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The mayor of a small town in Bolivia has been attacked by opposition protesters who dragged her through the streets barefoot, covered her in red paint and forcibly cut her hair. Patricia Arce of the governing Mas party was handed over to police in Vinto after several hours. It is the latest in a series of violent clashes between government supporters and opponents in the wake of controversial presidential elections. At least three people have died so far. What happened? A group of anti-government protesters was blocking a bridge in Vinto, a small town in Cochabamba province in central Bolivia,…

The Executive Director for the African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. Rasheed Draman, says security must not only be provided to members of parliament, but to all Ghanaians. He thus wants Parliament to ensure that the security agencies in the country are well resourced to protect all Ghanaians and foreigners residing in the country. MPs on Wednesday called for police protection in their homes following an attack on the MP for Nyiaeso, Kennedy Kankam, and his family last Sunday. Three gunmen, according to the police, made away with some items, including a 4-wheel drive vehicle. The unidentified assailants reportedly scaled…

One of the biggest challenges the planet face today is the earth drying up. This concern has given rise to voices clamouring for a green revolution of innovative initiatives and solutions to halt the rate of global warming. Vegetations hold the solution to reverse the climate change phenomenon – with more shrub, grass and tree cover on degraded lands and farmlands, biomass carbon is increased and the land is conserved for higher farm productivity and incomes. The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) is spearheading the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) to bring 100 million hectares of land into restoration…

Kwesi Nyantakyi[/caption] The determination of the Attorney General’s Department to prosecute former GFA boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi, for fraud was “stalled” by the death of investigative journalist, Ahmed Suale, Attorney General Gloria Akuffo has revealed. Mr. Nyantakyi was captured in a documentary by ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas attempting to use the name of President Akufo-Addo, the vice president and names of other state officials to induce potential investors to part with various sums of money. Having watched the documentary, President Akufo-Addo in May 2018 directed the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service to arrest the then president…

Prof. Lade Wosornu, a retired surgeon, poet and essayist, as part of the 6th Ghana Poetry Festival will be the Poet of Focus for a session dubbed “Poet’s Connect with Students”. The session, structured to engage students from tertiary to basic schools, would host a conversation with Prof. Lade Wosornu’s selected poems studied in school—Desert River and Raider of the Treasure Trove. It will also create a platform for audience to interact with him about his career as a surgeon and a poet/essayist while Brownson Adatsi, Lamer James, Euodea Attram, Oswald Okaitei among others perform the poems. A number of…

Prof. Lade Wosornu, a retired surgeon, poet and essayist, as part of the 6th Ghana Poetry Festival will be the Poet of Focus for a session dubbed “Poet’s Connect with Students”. The session, structured to engage students from tertiary to basic schools, would host a conversation with Prof. Lade Wosornu’s selected poems studied in school—Desert River and Raider of the Treasure Trove. It will also create a platform for audience to interact with him about his career as a surgeon and a poet/essayist while Brownson Adatsi, Lamer James, Euodea Attram, Oswald Okaitei among others perform the poems. A number of…

Mr. Kurt Okraku had a fruitful discussion with Ghana’s president on reviving football in Ghana[/caption] Unlike the former Ghana Football Association boss Kwesi Nyantakyi who suggested to the world that he had Ghana’s president in his pocket, the newly elected GFA President, Kurt E.S Okraku has refused to trek that path. Kurt Okraku who was speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues said his recent visit to the president was a formal introduction and the first time he had met the president in person. Mr. Okraku on October 30, 2019 paid a courtesy call on President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House…

Government is to construct a cassava processing factory in the Kpandai District of the Savanna Region as part of the ‘Enable Youth Programme’ under the One district One Factory (I1D1F) initiative. Experts who visited the district to access its potentials suggested the construction of a cassava factory in the area to among other things, create job opportunities for the people, District Chief Executive, Atta Emmanuel Kofi Tatablata, has said. Speaking at the district’s meet-the-press series, Mr Tatablata said construction work on the factory will soon commence. Meanhile, the DCE said 73 students from the district in various tertiary institutions across…

Government is to construct a cassava processing factory in the Kpandai District of the Savanna Region as part of the ‘Enable Youth Programme’ under the One district One Factory (I1D1F) initiative. Experts who visited the district to access its potentials suggested the construction of a cassava factory in the area to among other things, create job opportunities for the people, District Chief Executive, Atta Emmanuel Kofi Tatablata, has said. Speaking at the district’s meet-the-press series, Mr Tatablata said construction work on the factory will soon commence. Meanhile, the DCE said 73 students from the district in various tertiary institutions across…

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has presented medical consumables worth 10,000 cedis to the Tamale Central Prison, and additional 4,000 cedis to be used to complete an ongoing project. The inmates and officers on duty were also giving free medical screening and lunch. The gesture, according to the association, forms part of activities marking the 61st annual conference of the association, which is expected to end on Sunday November 10. Presenting the items to officers of the prison, President of GMA, Dr. Frank Ankobia expressed concerns about the health status of inmates in prisons across the country. He said, though…