South African rapper determined to prove Afrikaans is cool

Some 300,000 people have fled fighting in Sudan's Darfur region in the first five months of 2013, the UN's top aid official Valerie Amos warns.

ICC appoints judges to Kenyan casesPanapress (subscription)A brief statement from the ICC, made available to PANA in New York on Thursday, said the two three-judge chambers will each try the cases against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto. "Trial Chamber V (a) in charge of the ...and more »

Images of the funeral of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March in the US and whose body has now returned to his homeland.

International mining companies operating in Mozambique are failing in their obligation to people displaced by coal mining, says Human Rights Watch.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Kwahu East District is one of the 26 municipal and district assemblies in the Eastern Region that has confirmed the "Better Ghana Agenda" slogan of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), despite the economic hardship in the country.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Hearing of the 2012 election petition by the Supreme Court yesterday, took a dramatic turn, when the state security was drawn into heated exchanges between the lead counsel for the petitioners and the respondents.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Third World Network-Africa (TWN), an Accra-based a research and advocacy non-governmental organisation (NGO), has blamed the recent gangsterism and other challenges in the artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) in Ghana on a weakling economy.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -Just when residents of Kumasi were beginning to get over the recent strange killings that hit the metropolis, another bloody murder, involving a 35-year-old security officer, occurred on yesterday at Bantama.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Madamfo Ghana Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) from Germany, has commissioned a three-classroom block, with an office and store room, and Kindergarten block for the Detieso Community in the Bosome-Freho District of the Ashanti Region.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) has been an integral part of our commitment to democratic rule since 1992. Goaded by mature political leadership, it has acceded to electoral reforms that have brought a measure of transparency to our election processes. We have come a long way since 1969 when a ballot box was a wooden box and voting was done in a darkened classroom. But the credit for our democratic development and the continued peace of our nation must go, first, to the maturity of our political leaders

[Ghanaian Chronicle]One of the reasons why the Ghanaian Italian Petroleum Company (GHAIP), which later became known as Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), was established in 1960, was to process crude oil for the Ghanaian domestic market.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]TB Joshua has just released version 3.0 of his anointed water packaging. The packaging for anointed water 2.0 boldly claimed that it was "for the salvation of your soul". Presumably since the release of 2.0 someone explained to TB Joshua that only the blood of Jesus could provide salvation, so incredibly for version 3.0 he labels his anointed water "the blood of Jesus". You can't make this stuff up.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -A former Regional Chairman of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Nana Osei Tutu Bonsu, has stressed the need for politicians to work and consolidate the gains of our democratic dispensation.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Mr. Kwame Poku Baryeh, a businessman and Assembly Member for the Jamasi East electoral area, has been sworn-in as the new Krontihene of Jamasi in the Sekyere South District of the Ashanti Region, under the stool name Nana Nuamah Poku Mensah II.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]What will happen when the Supreme Court rules in the election dispute? Will there be peace or violence?

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Kumasi -A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) legal team, Mr. Buabeng Asamoah, has asked supporters of the party to refrain from ridiculing Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, lead counsel for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the ongoing electoral petition at the Supreme Court, over his supposed frustrations in court.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The news hit like a thunderbolt; four adult Ghanaians had been trampled to death in a mad, senseless stampede for free anointing water, with 30 others injured, possibly seriously.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Member of Parliament (MP) for Old Tafo in Kumasi, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, has made personal donations of four sets of brand new computers, valued at GH¢3,000, to two basic schools in his constituency.