UN approves global arms trade treaty

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• OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

  Author:..OBAA YAA
  
  ...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever qu ...
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  Author:..OBAA YAA
  
  ...So, the people around the president including his wife and those Team “B” staffers were aware of the president failing health. Therefore, who were they kidding when they ruin insults on whoever questions the former president health?
  As much as I hate to admit Rawlings was right with his statement. If they have had listen to those who were concern with the president health, he might be alive today.

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• Emma 12 years ago

  Though the historic deplomatic archievement has been achieved but it isn't a healthy one

  Though the historic deplomatic archievement has been achieved but it isn't a healthy one

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• S. K. AMANKWAH 12 years ago

  We hope and hope the gun producing conglomerate own by prominent and their untouchable owner wont produce them undercover, use well placed figure and ''back doors'' methods to distribute these guns on the blind side of the UN ...
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  We hope and hope the gun producing conglomerate own by prominent and their untouchable owner wont produce them undercover, use well placed figure and ''back doors'' methods to distribute these guns on the blind side of the UN body.

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• MENSAH 12 years ago

  There would be much restrictions on shipments of these weapons from now,I believe.

  There would be much restrictions on shipments of these weapons from now,I believe.

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• S. K. AMANKWAH 12 years ago

  It would be to the good of Africa.

  It would be to the good of Africa.

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• william 12 years ago

  Good and encouraging news for Africa, especially West Africa. And a victory for government/civil society collaboration. Regrettably a certain "old soldier" is so old he does not get it!!!!!

  Good and encouraging news for Africa, especially West Africa. And a victory for government/civil society collaboration. Regrettably a certain "old soldier" is so old he does not get it!!!!!

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• Ewe hegemon 12 years ago

  Don't ban arms trading yet.Give us all these armaments so we can use them to unite our beloved Ewe nation from Togo to Benin and to Ghana and after that you can ban arms.

  Don't ban arms trading yet.Give us all these armaments so we can use them to unite our beloved Ewe nation from Togo to Benin and to Ghana and after that you can ban arms.

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• Vuvuzela 12 years ago

  Since the great majority of Ghanaians don’t read or speak French, it is understandable that no one talks about an explosive and incredible money laundering affair developing in Mauritania involving the incumbent president a ...
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  Since the great majority of Ghanaians don’t read or speak French, it is understandable that no one talks about an explosive and incredible money laundering affair developing in Mauritania involving the incumbent president and Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and an Iraqi resident in Ghana who goes by the name of Usman Alawi.
  
  Set in 2007, the revelations by an embittered Malian citizen Hamed Umar engaged by the Mauritanian president but had not been paid for his service uncover a typical James Bond-like maze suspense in which at least 3 containers of fake American dollars might have passed through the Tema harbor. Hamed Umar claimed he has in his possession voice recordings identifying the voice of the Mauritania president, and the affair – now being tagged Ghanagate – is stimulating heated public opinion with calls for the president to speak out.
  
  A lady close to the corridors of power Coumba Ba assigned herself on the track of the issue and must have been several times in Ghana in 2007 supposedly re-engaged the attention of Umar asking him to deny the issue and get paid.
  
  Usman Alawi apparently had an assistant Hamed named Victor who might have been the president of a football club – “Lion Club”? Victor was involved in all types of traffic and barred from entering Togo.
  
  The Mauritania president who was the chief of security at the time when was supposed to change the fake dollars for good ones using the Mauritanian Bank. But was he victim of 419?

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• Ghanavi 12 years ago

  Ask yourself, who is going to monitor this ban? The UN does not have a police force. The super powers will have to monitor the ban, but ask yourself again, where are the arms being manufactured and shipped from? Do you know h ...
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  Ask yourself, who is going to monitor this ban? The UN does not have a police force. The super powers will have to monitor the ban, but ask yourself again, where are the arms being manufactured and shipped from? Do you know how much jobs and money these super powers are making from these arm sales to developing countries? They do not give A FUCK what the arms are used for. All they want is to "create" jobs for their citizens so that they can remain in power. So do not kid yourself.

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• Zach Gabriel 12 years ago

  Another hypocritical move from the UN whose laws and rules are unevenly applied. Who gave legal backing and arms to the rebels who overthrew the Libyan strongman? The invasion of Iraq had security council backing. Lately, thi ...
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  Another hypocritical move from the UN whose laws and rules are unevenly applied. Who gave legal backing and arms to the rebels who overthrew the Libyan strongman? The invasion of Iraq had security council backing. Lately, this same UN member states are sponsoring government change in Syria.
  
  Just like the world court, only Africans will be tried, whereas other war criminals from the powerful countries get a pass.

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• Agyeman 12 years ago

  Very true my bro,very true.

  Very true my bro,very true.

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