Australia’s Gold Coast is prepared to host back-to-back Commonwealth Games, the city’s mayor said Wednesday, after scheduled 2022 host Durban was dumped for failing to meet “key obligations”. Mayor Tom Tate stopped short of nominating the east coast tourist hotspot as a 2022 replacement but said if called upon to do so the Games could … Read more
Countries in Africa’s Great Lakes region launched an intelligence nerve centre in Uganda Saturday to better coordinate the fight against a rebel group responsible for massacres in neighbouring DR Congo. A string of bloody killings in which civilians have mostly been hacked to death around the town of Beni in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo … Read more
Before writing this piece, we were hesitant. Not so much because we were afraid of being inaccurate, but because we didn’t want to hurt the sensibility of our friend, Kwabena Boadu who could best be described as a man of words. He sparingly spoke in public not because he wasn’t a good speaker. He had … Read more