The Daily IIJ

Last Wednesday, we reached the central office of Unity Life International Limited in Jawalakhel to collect the information on protest programme being held inside its premises. Everyone knows that Unity is charged of involvement in illegal insurance and deposit collection business. Unity’s head office was under the control of the police and its members were [...]

[Read more →]

Seventy eight percent of Kenyans, who intend to vote at the referendum, will not be affected by a court ruling that declared kadhi courts illegal.

[Read more →]

The United Kingdom has pledged to support political and economic reforms in Kenya.

[Read more →]

Part 3: Kakum National Park “one of the few patches of rainforest left in West Africa” On Sunday, we made a long journey to the Cape Coast, which is two hours thirty minutes drive from the capital, Accra. Our first point of call was the KAKUM NATIONAL PARK, the tropical rainforest is said to be [...]

[Read more →]

Part 2: “Ash Cloud” too arrives in Accra, lectures least disrupted On Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April 2010, we began to feel the effects of the infamous “ash cloud” which came as a result of a volcanic eruption in Iceland, grounding airplanes from across the world for a week. Since the IIJ Consultant was [...]

[Read more →]

Part 1: The Journey I left Banjul on 16th April, 2010 at 1755GMT to attend training on Conflict Transformation and Peace Building organised by the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) of InWEnt Germany, in Accra, Ghana. Having waited so long at the Banjul International Airport Terminal, posing and discussing about the cancellation of flights to [...]

[Read more →]

The establishment of the American Chamber of Commerce in The Gambia has been described as an important step in facilitating improved trade and investment sector in the Gambian soil, said the  United States Ambassador in The Gambia, Ambassador Barry Wells.

[Read more →]

Commissioner Alapina Gansou , the Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has stated that human rightd issues remains a challenge in Africa due to lack of commitment by individuals and state parties. She was speaking to journalists at a press conference at the end of the 47th Ordinary Session of [...]

[Read more →]

One of the leading contenders for the flag bearer position of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has confessed that the treatment meted out to PMDC members “by their SLPP brothers” after the 2005 Makeni convention was unwarranted, and that the members had a genuine case to break-off and form their own party.

[Read more →]

HEAD OF the Migration Information Bureau (MIB) of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) Assistant Comptroller of Immigration (ACOI) Belinda Adwoa Sika Anim, told The Chronicle’s reporter, who has been following the outfit’s activities for some time now that regular meetings with most European Union countries revealed the number of people who entered those countries with [...]

[Read more →]