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Thursday, 2 February 2017

OPINION

Taking ‘forward ever’ to another level, Ghana has done it again, Ayekoo!By Samwin Banienuba
Image result for ghana flagOn December 7th, 2016 Ghanaians pulled off yet another peaceful election almost on the blind side of the world as many remained fixated on the thunderbolt of the American election before it and the embarrassing confusion in the Gambian election next door. The 8th quadrennial affair in Ghana passed off without hiccups as if the exercise of this democratic principle of changing their leaders through the ballot box has always been indigenous.

POLITICS

Hungary's Orban and ally Putin cement closer ties
Peter Murphy & Maria Pania

Putin & Viktor
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban cemented closer ties at talks Thursday, amid growing EU rifts over sanctions against Moscow because of its meddling in Ukraine. The Budapest meeting with the right-wing Orban -- who wants the European Union to lift its punitive measures -- was Putin's first visit to a bloc member since the shock election of US President Donald Trump in November.