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Prof. Henrietta J.A.N Mensa-Bonsu (2nd left), Director, LECIAD, being congratulated by Prof Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor of UG after the lecture. Picture: KWABENA ASAMOAH ADDAI By Edmund Smith-Asante  The Director of the Legon Centre for International Affairs Department (LECIAD), Professor Henrietta J. A. N. Mensa-Bonsu, says the formation of the African Standby Force (ASF) agreed by member countries of the African Union (AU) has delayed because of lack of commitment on the part of African countries.

By Edmund Smith-Asante The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has called on Ghanaians to appreciate the threats posed by the Ebola virus to make the country deal with it effectively. He said, “there has been a lot of indifference and complacency on the part of a number of our population in confronting the threat the virus poses.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA   The US Ambassador, Mr Gene Cretz being assisted to open the ACE facility. They are from the left, the ASSESS Chief of Party, Abdourahmane Ba, USAID Mission Director Alex Deprez and the KNUST Vice Chancellor Mr W Otoo Ellis A five year US$24 million project to promote creativity, innovation and learning developed by the United States Agency for International Aid (USAID), and its development partners was launched in Accra on Friday. The launch included the opening of a new Accra Centre of Excellence (ACE) facility, which is a training and conference centre that will stimulate networking, knowledge sharing and partnership building, to further strengthen development programmes and improve their outcomes across West Africa.

By Edmund Smith-Asante Ghana is one of 10 countries that have improved greatly on food sufficiency or decreased hunger, since 1990, says the 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report. All the 10 countries were able to reduce their GHI score by 50 per cent or more, from 1990 to 2014, the report released on Monday indicates.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA Akufo Addo (inset) addressing the teeming crowd at Lapaz on Thursday. Infectious, electrifying and spontaneous are words that best describe the mood at Lapaz in Accra yesterday when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) faithful gathered to show support to one of the party’s presidential aspirants, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The cheers and general merrymaking, amid dancing to song renditions in support of the aspirant, were reminiscent of political rallies in the build-up to elections in the country.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA DCOP Rev David Nenyi Ampah-Bennin Two thousand policemen are on stand-by for deployment to the 275 polling stations designated for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) presidential primary on Saturday, October 18. The policemen will be deployed in at least groups of five for each polling centre on the election day, after a briefing on October 17.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA   Mr Earl Gast The United States Aid agency (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Africa, Mr Earl Gast, has expressed optimism that the devastating effect of the Ebola crisis on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, would not negatively impact on investment in Africa. He said his belief stemmed from the fact that to date the disease had been prevented from spreading to other parts of the African continent, while there was no let on efforts to deal with the Ebola disease.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA Motor traffic congestion is a regular feature on most busy streets Studies have found that staying in vehicular traffic can cause mental problems later in life as a result of high stress levels, the President of the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE), Mr Magnus Lincoln Quarshie, has said. “Every day irritations such as waiting in traffic can build up over time and cause mental problems later in life, psychologists have found,” he said.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, ACCRA Mr Bagbin (standing in front row) delivering his acceptance speech in Parliament on Wednesday Former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing as well as Health in the Atta Mills-led government, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, yesterday took back his seat in Parliament as the Majority Leader.