Ghana boycott over graft sentence
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Ghana's main opposition party boycotts parliament after a minister under ex-President Rawlings is jailed for fraud.
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Kenya's Anglican bishops will join the boycott of a major church gathering this year because of a rift over gay clergy and same-sex unions, Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi said on Friday.
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Presidential elections are taking place in Ghana, which boasts political stability but much poverty.
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ACCRA, Dec 20  (IPS) - A lively debate has been taking place in Ghana for  some time now over the likely effects that an economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union would have on  the country. This has been thanks in no small part to the work of  Tetteh Hormeku, one of Africaâs most vocal campaigners on trade  issues.
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A court in Ghana on Wednesday sentenced two teenage British girls found guilty in November of cocaine smuggling to one year in prison, a spokesman for the British High Commission said.
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Ho, Dec 02, GNA- President John Agyekum Kufuor has said the attitude of men towards sex was crucial for halting the onslaught of HIV/AIDS in Ghana.
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A court in Ghana on Wednesday sentenced two teenage British girls found guilty in November of cocaine smuggling to one year in prison, a diplomat said.
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Two Cambodians who human rights groups say were framed for the 2003 murder of a prominent union leader called on the King on Friday to quash their conviction after the surprise postponement of their appeal hearing.
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Snaking lines of hundreds of voters built up at balloting places across Ghana on Tuesday, as the first sub-Saharan country to gain independence voted for president.
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- The controversial four-year, three-month prison sentence given to a blind legal activist for disrupting traffic and damaging property was upheld by a Chinese court Friday morning and immediately condemned by the activist's attorneys.
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Voting has started in Ghana, for the fourth election since the introduction of the multiparty system, in 1992. Lines formed early at many of the 21,000 polling stations, throughout Ghana.
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Dozens of suspected masterminds of Rwanda&#39;s 1994 genocide are boycotting their trials at a UN tribunal to protest plans to move future proceedings to Kigali, defence lawyers said on Tuesday.
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A court in sub-Saharan Africa&#39;s third biggest oil producing nation, Equatorial Guinea, has handed down lengthy jail sentences to a dozen South Africans and Armenians convicted of plotting a coup.
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Child campaigners were sickened Saturday by the &#39;lenient&#39; 10 month jail sentence given to award-winning comedy actor Chris Langham for downloading indecent videos of children from the Internet.
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Description: Commentator Meri Danquah lives in Ghana. The recent unrest in neighboring Ivory Coast has her thinking more than ever about the stability of West Africa.
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The sentencing of the two British girls found guilty in November of cocaine smuggling in Ghana has been postponed to January 23, a diplomat said Wednesday.
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afrol News, 20 September - Roman Catholic priest Athanase Seromba is accused of the worst imaginable crimes during the 1994 Rwanda genocide.