Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah, 29th June 2015 Nineteen African nations meet today in Arusha, Tanzania, to finalise a 'plant protection' protocol that would open up the continent's seeds to corporate interests, taking away farmers' rights to grow, improve, sell and exchange their...
Governments in industrial countries regularly put pressure on developing countries to introduce stringent plant variety protection (PVP) regimes and to adhere to the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention, without duly considering its consequences on the enjoyment of human rights...
Call of G7/G8 Civil Society Organizations to their Governments on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa More than two years after the launch of the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, what we have seen of its ‘progress’ does not change...
By Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah I have been meaning to do my own reflections of the 20th anniversary of the Insight Newspaper, but I kept postponing it, as each time I tried to put my ideas together, so many things race to the fore, competing for priority. It is a duty I felt for...
AFSA Press Release 15th August 2013 ____________________________________________________________________ Africa’s Food Sovereignty Under Attack By Corporate Interests Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of pan-African networks, with...
Akufo-Addo, A Threat To Peace In Ghana? - Part One: US CSIS Report A "Real and Present Dangers" Review by Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah, "The role of the NPP leader and expected presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, will be crucial, and early signals suggest reason for...
The following story which appeared in the Chroniquesénégalaises caught my attention recently. I have been literary traumatised by it. It has become intrusive and repetitive of late that the only way to deal with it is to talk about it. The story states that on 1 April 2011,...
48th Annual AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY celebration www.wavenewspapers.com AFRICAN LIBERATION DAYCelebration & Commemoration“For the Liberation and Struggle of African Peoples Everywhere”The Organization Us will hold its 48th Annual African Liberation...
panafricanistinternational.org APPEL AU BOYCOTT DE L'INVESTITURE DE ALASSANE DRAMANE OUATTARA COMME PRÉSIDENT DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE DE LA COTE D'IVOIRE. Par Panafricaniste Internationale Le Comité de Solidarité Internationale de l'International...
panafricanistinternational.org/ STATEMENT CALLING FOR THE BOYCOTT OF THE INVESTITURE OF ALASSANE DRAMANE OUATTARA AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LA COTE D'IVOIRE. By Pan-Africanist International The International Solidarity Committee of the Pan-Africanist...
