The Daily IIJ

Submitted to the 44 Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights at Abuja, Nigeria on 14 November 2008.
Over the last year repression of freedom of expression and of the media has intensified in Sudan. Daily newspapers have been suspended, printed newspaper editions and equipment confiscated, in addition to increased harassment, arrest, [...]

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The Electoral Commission of Ghana has declared the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) winners of 229 out of the 230 constituencies in Ghana’s presidential run-off. Its candidate Prof. Atta-Mills obtained 4,501,466 representing 50.13% while the ruling NPP had 4,478,411 (49.87%).

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I scan through notes scrawled while I was a patient in Durban for five days last month after I was admitted on the last day of our two-week Summer Academy training course attended together with 16 other mid career journalists from 10 SADC countries. Addington Hospital, the ward, patients, SABC TV /e-news, cholera outbreaks, three [...]

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Monday, an Accra based radio station, Joy FM turned itself into the arbiter of Ghanaian elections: the station, at approximately 1:48pm, declared John Evans Atta Mills the next president of Ghana. Despite just 14 of the 39 polling station results from the NPP’s traditional stronghold of Ashanti Region being certified by the EC, Joy FM, [...]

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Jendayi Elizabeth Frazer, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Sunday evening described the just ended presidential run-off election in Ghana as very impressive.

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Latest provisional results of the close presidential run-off in Ghana put the opposition National Democratic Congress in an early lead. Its candidate Prof. Atta-Mills has 4,419,419 representing 50.64% of 223 out of the 230 constituencies. The ruling NPP trails with 4,307,120 votes (49.36%).

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Voting has ended in a generally peaceful election run-off in West Africa’s peaceful nation of Ghana. Counting of ballot papers currently underway in the over 22,000 polling centres throughout the country. Turnout was not as impressive as the first round held in December 7 2008, the media reported. The election itself was characterized by alleged [...]

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Voting began on time in the West African nation of Ghana as it goes into an election run-off on Sunday to elect a new president. Long queues formed at polling centres hours before voting opened at 7am. The
new president replaces incumbent Kufuor who voluntarily steps down after two terms in office.

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Video credit: NTVKenya
There we go again. Another useless and stupid coup d’etat in Guinea just hours after the former president Lansana Conte died.
A gang of thieves and riff-raffs in military uniforms have rubbished the supreme document – Constitution – of the West African State and installed themselves as new leaders.

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Another year has nearly passed by. May I take this opportunity to wish all of my friends and colleagues all over the world, especially all INWENT and IIJ members:

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