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Annin lauds Ghana’s intervention in Mali crisis

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  • James 11 years ago

    West African countries have thousands of soldiers. I wonder why they are now giving out such small numbers now that a real war is starting. They need to contribute far more than they are doing now.

  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwasi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwasi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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  • AWALI AGOSU,SPAIN. 11 years ago

    The issue here about kwesi pratt is irrelevant and baseless.Just contribute to the topic concerned(Ghana's intervention in Mali), but if you have nothing to offer to the topic as an old soldier, then please keep mute and hold ...
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  • The African Patriot 11 years ago

    Slaves never stop serving their masters. The plan of the west to manage Africa is moving. From Lybia to Mali and from Mali to where....

    Ghana, Nigeria, etc...

    Former colonial Master are masterminding again. And we are s ...
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  • N. T 11 years ago

    I agree with you. We are not going there only to keep peace. For now we are going to engage the islamists in a serious war. We better be prepared to face them! Courage and good luck to our brothers and sisters in uniform who ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 11 years ago

    Source: Daily Guide...

    All of a sudden nonentities want to portray to the world how close they were to the late President.

    Those who had to chat with him for one hour everyday, those Deputy Ministers who had to call h ...
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  • Guv 11 years ago

    Dr Annin directed was mentioned in wikileaks . He directed US to check with German intelligence for Nana's coke addiction.

  • Ameko 11 years ago

    Lol

  • CONCERNED CITIZEN 11 years ago

    "A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE" WITH THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GHANA,THE WORLD SHOULD NOT LOOK ON UNCONCERNED TILL IT EXPLODES.
    NDC RIGGED THE ELECTIONS.THE EVIDENCES OF THE NPP ARE SO OVERWHELMING.INSTEAD OF THE NDC BRINGI ...
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  • MR AMES 11 years ago

    GHANA HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE ATLIST 1,000 TROOPS INSTEAD OF 120 COMEON MAHAMA DO SOMETHING BETHER THAN THIS

  • Shinguard 11 years ago

    This is a commitment dating back to the Ghana, Guniea Mali Union. In fact We should have been the first to go to the aid of Mali. However we have to remember that the political landscape has altered drastically. Therefore wh ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    What about the other West African Problem?
    The impacts of Climate Change and variability on the nations of the sub-region?
    The impact of persistent drought on Fulani pastoralists, and their transboundary threat to nations i ...
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  • Kweku Boateng Jnr 11 years ago

    The new Ghanaian government could take the lead and champion climate change issues. Can President Mahama and Ghanaians read your critical view point and work to make Accra, the Green capital in Africa?Tree planting or growing ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    We need to embark on a nation-wide campaign to promote environmental awareness.
    The press, media houses, churches and mosques, schools, market women, drivers, businesses, fishermen and farmers, everybody should be part of th ...
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  • KNYC(USMC) 11 years ago

    B'cos they are part of the problem.

  • KING LOMOTEY 11 years ago

    Especially the churches and mosques worshipping the Almighty surrounded by filth and unbearable stench.

  • Kweku Boateng Jnr 11 years ago

    When the body bags start arriving in Abuja, Accra, Waga, Paris etc than the leaders would sit up and note that fighting in northern Mali is not a tea party.
    How are Ghanaian troops to be supplied up in Lire, Dire, Tinbuktu, ...
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  • MATHS @MARS 11 years ago

    Mr. Kweku Boateng Jnr So you stll don't see the senseinf the intervention of the Forces from France and the West African sub Region? It would have been worse without the intervention. Many more body bags would have arrived in ...
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  • Kweku Boateng Jnr 11 years ago

    1. ECOMOG in Liberia stated, no negotiations with Charles Taylor's NPFL in 1990. 1998 End result, ECOWAS made him president of Liberia after 250,000 Liberians and several thousands of Nigerian and others were killed. Negotia ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    Thanks for the information, Bra Kweku!
    It is rather unfortunate that ECOWAS leaders are sending their forces into such a vast unique, harsh desert terrain to engage such zealot phantom forces who don't subscribe to regular m ...
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  • KNYC(USMC) 11 years ago

    The problem is the Supply line is bad.That why U.S don't wont to go there.

  • malaam Salifu 11 years ago

    PHd stands for perminent head damage. In short FUCKED UP. Book law.

  • Tobia Songolo 11 years ago

    The decision of the Ghana government to send soldiers to Mali is very sad. It means that Ghnaian leaders have not yet understood the proxy and satanic wars being waged in Africa by Western countries.They started this war in C ...
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  • old man 11 years ago

    my brother i honestly agreed with you, most people don't know that and if you don't believe what my brother is saying then you can log on to FREEMASONS.COM and see it your self.

  • william 11 years ago

    Are you following closely what is going on in the Sahel region up tp Guinea Bissau? Please go on the internet! Very strange comments! When fire is coming your way you are looking at who originated it before you put it out!Who ...
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  • GHANAIAN SPIRITUALIST IN COTE D'IVOIR 11 years ago

    Either it is pig-headed people who now lead Africa or current African leaders are partners in the Free Mason's plot to sacrifice the blood of Africans to their diabolic spirits. They have done so in the two Congos, Rwanda, Ce ...
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  • old man 11 years ago

    What is our gain by sending our men there? what is going to happen to their family in case if they lost their lives?

  • SHALOM 11 years ago

    A quick military response to the Malian crisis will save the entire world from the Islamist using the territory as abode for al-qeeda, taliban, boko haram, etc. to launch attacks on nations, aircrafts, installations, etc. The ...
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  • Ganty 11 years ago

    Thank you France. We don’t want to live under Islamic rule.

  • AMARIYA 11 years ago

    Ghana is taking her place as a committed ECOWAS member and even more free-loving country.
    It is going to be a difficult war, but I think Franco-ECOWAS army would win.
    The cooperation of Algeria and Mauritania would be para ...
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  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    NPP must quickly withdraw their case to allow Prez Mahama focus on the Mali Crisis and protect our boundaries from any terrorist attack.The International Community is focused on Mali and Algeria now but the terrorist could hi ...
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  • Mr. Mister 11 years ago

    Shameless lapdog.

  • THE TRUTH 11 years ago

    lt a war zone l wish am part of it,fire fire fire l love that,its time to stop this north north things

  • THE TRUTH 11 years ago

    WHAT ABT BAWKU?

  • Mpuansa ntiamoah 11 years ago

    Sir,do you also base your argument on military communication in Mali? Military boots on Mali soil must be Francophones,think twise.

  • Amadou 11 years ago

    Francophones are brave and will save us from Islamists. Shame on Ghanaians for not supporting us Malians.

  • evanzini 11 years ago

    i dnt undastand some of u ghanaians. we are only lucky to be in a very peaceful country. so if our follow african brothers need help n becos they are french we shouldnt. havent Ghana receive any aid or grant from France befor ...
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  • Extraterrestial 11 years ago

    Is this the only way to get your voice heard? Tell Afari Gyan to confess his electoral misdeeds and for Mahama to stop acting as though Ghanaians have elected him. This man's presidency has always come through the back door. ...
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  • omegah 11 years ago

    old soldier or whatever your name is did you read the story all, i will advise that if you have any personal problem with our finest season journalist should be done on a defferent platform and not here.

  • ROMANUS DE CAPITOL 11 years ago

    CAN HE TELL US THE TYPE OF SITUATION PREVAILING IN MALI NOW AND WHAT THE TROOPS FROM GHANA SHOULD EXPECT AND PREPARE FOR? IT IS NOT A MATTER OF LAUDING IT BUT OFFERING EXPERT ADVISE ON ISSUES THAT WILL CONFRONT THE TROOPS AND ...
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  • ROMANUS DE CAPITOL 11 years ago

    THE SITUATION THAT IS RIFE ON THE GROUND IN MALI MIGHT BE QUITE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT OUR PEACE KEEPING SOLDIERS NORMALLY FACE ON VARIOUS WAR FRONTS THEY HAVE BEEN TO INTERNATIONALLY. THE USUAL DIRECT ATTACK AND COUNTER ATTACK ...
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  • Amadou 11 years ago

    You are telling me that Ghanians can’t make it. They are not brave enought to help us to stop Islamists ?
    Don’t worry the Nigerians are already here and they know how terrible Boko Haram is.

  • Johhnywas 11 years ago

    This security expert is another idiot. What is Ghana's interest in sending his sons and daughters to die for the economic and imperialistic interest of France? These pseudo-intellectuals should tell us whom they actually wor ...
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  • evanzini 11 years ago

    pls grow up bcos it looks lyk u are talking thrash!!!! n dnt b silly

  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 11 years ago

    Hohhnywas, you are many light thinking years ahead of some of us slumberers, who do not understand neocolonialism, and unconsciencely embrace it. Thanks for the warning.

  • Jean-Marc 11 years ago

    Dear brother. When your neighbour's hut is burning help him instead philisophying. There is no French interest in Mali. They are just doing the job we are unable to do. Will you be happy to have a kind of Somalia or Afghanist ...
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  • Siisi 11 years ago

    I hope and pray that we only go there to keep peace and not to engage in combat, supporting one faction against the other.We should not go and entrap ourselves in any Western imperialist subterfuge.May God help Africa.

  • GYE NYAME 11 years ago

    I hope and pray that we only go there to keep peace and not to engage in combat, supporting one faction against the other.We should not go and entrap ourselves in any Western imperialist subterfuge.May Almighty God deliver th ...
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  • Dee 11 years ago

    "A west African problem" indeed!Whose creation is this? Lets understand what is really going on before we take a plunge! All that glitters may not be gold.

  • Kafui 11 years ago

    this is very apt & great comment.thank u sir.

  • BOY KOFI 11 years ago

    We have a very good relationship with Mali,we cannot allow terrorists to butcher Malians just like that.NPP must look beyond Ghana boarders and withdraw their case for our Commander-in-Chief,Prez Mahama to focus.The Mali Cris ...
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  • GhaAfri 11 years ago

    becare ful ghana, the CIA are at work and don't forget about what the western called 'Islamic Terrorist'which spreads the western empire in some part of the world and now the design this to stop the African ecconomy from grow ...
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  • marian 11 years ago

    Why are we congratulating ourselves. These are soldiers from the ECOWAS region.

  • nana boakye 11 years ago

    we really need to help but must be cautious. we have a very porous border up north.Tell the military to send tanks to our border with B'na Faso

  • Kk3 11 years ago

    i guess our leaders subscribe to the axiom of 'lead, follow or get out of the way' ; true to form we dey follow. where was the so called leadership when this crap started happening in Mali and what really is Ghana going to do ...
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  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    Trained and equip Mali's youth as they are prepared to defend their country from the monsters on earth

  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    More and more Mali's youth want to join the army and defend their country. Why not train them for the future.

  • Osei Yao 11 years ago

    SILLY AFRICANS SOLD THEIR BROTHERS FOR PEANUTS, NOW THEY ARE READY TO FIGHT EACH OTHER TO FURTHER WESTERN INTERESTS. TO KEEP THE GULF OIL TOUTE OPEN, AMERICA INSTALLED APUPPET GOVT IN ETHIOPIA, ORDERED IT TO INVADE SOMALIA AN ...
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  • Mama 11 years ago

    Hope you have fun when the Islamists come to Ghana. Do you like Sharia law ? Islamists are not westerners but Arabs !

  • Akwasi 11 years ago

    Because if Ghana need also will get but not in their mind that they are rasis. Ghana love those respect Ghana law over the world. long live Ghana. forward ever.