The Daily IIJ

General Zia and his predecessors introduced persecution against the minorities in Bangladesh. Bangladesh became Islamized under the military regime, rather than being a true parliamentarian democracy. Bangladesh was not born with the blessing of being united beyond ethnic and religious differences, but rather has been Islamized, yet with a secular policy.

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TWENTY FOUR survivors of last week Monday’s carnage on the Volta Lake at Wusuta in the Kpando District of the Volta region have narrated to DAILY GUIDE the circumstances which led to the fatal accident.

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National Electoral Independent Commission (CENI) held yesterday in Lomé, a meeting with political party leaders. The aim was to disclose the electoral proceedings that are to be followed, for the presidential election set on February 28, 2010.

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Every person has dignity. For an individual’s dignity is a very important component to living in a civilized society. But the individual’s dignity has been hampered in various ways. A lack of democracy and the rule of law is, every day, violating the dignity of the individual around the world. This is especially common in Asia.

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DEPUTY DIRECTOR at the Institute of Local Government Studies, Dr. Mahama Callistus says in order to perform its constitutional mandates effectively various reform initiatives such as budgeting procedures should be linked to the overall decentralization policy.
He added that funding arrangements for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA) ought to be improved to match new functional [...]

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IN THE wake of clearing the capital city of unauthorized wooden and metal structures, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has conspicuously began pulling down embarrassing arrangements without prior notification to the affected persons.

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A declaration from the just ended Second African Parliamentarians’ Summit on Climate Change held in Nairobi, Kenya has called on rich nations to set aside 1.5 percent of their GDP to support climate change mitigation and adaptation in Africa.
The continent also demanded that industrialized countries reduce their green house gas (GHG) emissions by at least [...]

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Inspite of the global financial crisis, Ghana’s economy is expanding at a moderate pace, says IMF Staff Mission to the West African state. Areas of particular strength cushioning the Ghanaian economy according to the IMF include Cocoa, the country’s number one export product and gold exports.

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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  says the lack of manpower development for media practitioners in developing countries has affected the media’s ability to effectively perform its watchdog role.

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Another journalist was brutally tortured by the so-called elite force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in Bangladesh. Tortured journalist F.M. Masum is now under treatment in a private hospital in the capital city of Dhaka. Before this, he had been admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. After being tortured, he can no longer hear with his left ear. Masum is a staff reporter for the national English language daily newspaper, New Age. He was tortured on Oct. 22 in his house in Dhaka.

Different media and human rights organizations demanded a judicial inquiry into the torture of Masum. After every incidence of the torture of journalists, like Masum’s case, journalists and human rights organizations give a condemning the act and demanding an investigation.

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