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After the December 7, 2008 national election and two presidential run-offs on December 28 and January 2, 2009, Professor John Atta-Mills, presidential candidate of National Democratic Congress (NDC), the opposition party, was yesterday declared Ghana’s president-elect by the Electoral Commission.
The presidential race between the candidate of the National Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo, and the [...]

In what is yet another boost to its efforts to digitally connect Africa with the rest of the world, Main One Cable Company has secured the pioneer landing licenses from Nigeria and Ghana respectively.
The race to build a West Africa Coast fiber optics cable link promises to push international bandwidth prices to new lows.
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Does Ghana Exist?

The Ghana 2008 Presidential/Parliamentary elections has been over since 36 hours ago and I find it interesting that many of the leading Western media outlets have not made a mention of Ghana 2008 Elections. Perhaps, Ghana does not exist on their radar screen. Ghana, like the rest of black Africa will only pop-up [...]

The Egyptian club Al-Ahly of Cairo have won the African Champions League trophy for the sixth time, winning 4-2 on aggregate over Coton Sport of Cameroon. They concluded their victory with a 2-2 away draw following a 2-0 home win. Al-Ahly has now won more football titles than any other club in Africa. The official [...]

Oh well! We engineers and tech people knew that this was not done right. What I mean is that the most populous; oil-rich nation but ‘economic basket case’ could not or would not maintain the NigComSat-1 satellite launched by them into orbit around the Earth eighteen months ago.
They are shutting the power down to prevent [...]

Beloved Miriam Makeba; who I was introduced to by my mother when I was probably a toddler has passed away today after unexpectedly collapsing on a performance stage near Napoli, Italy Sunday night; November 9th. She was 76. She will be dearly missed.
Read CNN report here and then google Miriam Makeba in ‘news’ for other [...]

Barack Hussein Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States of America! This was done by the participation of the majority of the voting population in the 2008 election. Scorecard as of election night was that: Mr. Obama captured an estimated 52 percent of the popular vote and 349 electoral [...]

Not a condescending statement at all! The pirates of the 16th and 17th century are veerrry old news! Replace your buccaneer tri-corner hat with a well-cropped haircut of the African persuasion. Replace that old school sword with a Russian-manufactured rocket-propelled grenade strapped to your back! Get rid of that eye patch strapped to your head! [...]

One of America’s leading carriers, Delta Airlines has announced plans to expand its services to Africa with the introduction of the first and only flight between Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport [Atlanta, GA Metro area] in the United States and Roberts International Airport in Liberia
The service, which will make a stop in Amilcar Cabral International Airport on [...]

The line-up for the five African groups in the third and final round of qualifying games for the 2010 Fifa World Cup was finalized at Fifa headquarters in Zurich on Wednesday.
The games - which will be played between March and November 2009 promise some great African fixtures.

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The 20 countries which [...]

Pharoahe Monch to Host CMJ’s International Hip-Hop Event - GLOBAL HIP HOP THROWDOWN
Event Will Unite the Talents of Global Hip-Hop’s Rising Stars at New York Cities’ Largest Music Conference and Networking Event
RSVP Now!
Global music and media company NOMADIC WAX & public relations/music promoter THE BLOOM EFFECT have joined forces and will co-produce this year’s CMJ [...]

Botswana’s former President Festus Mogae has won a $5 million USD prize to encourage good governance in Africa.
…Botswana is one of Africa’s most stable countries - it has never had a coup and has had regular multi-party elections since independence in 1966.
Announcing the prize, ex-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan also commended Mr Mogae for his [...]

The 1st Broadcast & Film Africa Conference & Exhibition
Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi
23-25 September 2008
A few weeks back saw 200 African broadcasters and film-makers gathered for the first genuinely pan-African conference for these two important sectors. There was a palpable excitement in the air as participants realised that the African broadcast and film industries are [...]

The DV-2010 Lottery online entry begins today at Noon EDT/1600hrs GMT on October 2, 2008, and ends at Noon EST/1700hrs GMT on December 1, 2008. The English version of the DV-2010 Lottery Instructions is available in PDF format for your convenience.
The Diversity Immigrant Visa program is a United States congressionally mandated lottery program for receiving [...]

Africom [The United States African Command] is one of six, regional Unified Combatant Commands of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. AfriCom became fully autonomous and operational today, October 1, 2008. It was established a year before that as a sub-command of the US European Command. US President George W. Bush [...]