Most traders got to their market places on Tuesday to meet pools of water in their shops. They first of all went under the rain to the market since it rained heavily all morning.

WE'RE IN ONE OF THOSE periods when we need to watch television broadcasts from far-off lands to become Kenyans.

Nigeria is the only African country in the soccer semi-finals of the Olympic Games after Cameroon's elimination by Brazil in the quarterfinals.

Four medals - two gold, a silver and a bronze - in just two races within a few minutes of each other is surely a stupendous achievement.

Heads of the different structures which make up Cameroon's official delegation in Beijing, last Tuesday met in one of the plush hotels in the Chinese capital city to synchronise their actions.

Action at the on-going Olympic Games in Beijing moves into week two today. Within the Cameroonian delegation, expectations for medals are high and hopes raised as some key athletes go into competition.

The protracted legal tussle involving Ghanaian Lawyer and T.V. Sports Commentator, Sarfo Abebrese at the Circuit Court in Accra has ended.

A group of people, who claim they are concerned citizens of the Musama Disco Christo Church, has stated that they were fed up with the police in the Central Region harassing their members, especially their leaders.

HIS LORDSHIP Mr. Justice Frank Amoah, presiding over a Kumasi High Court has dismissed a motion brought against the Ashanti Regional Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and three other executives of the Kwabre West constituency.

Yesterday in Calabar, it took barely 40 minutes to end a dispute that has seen Cameroon and Nigeria on their heels for the past 15 years.

Mr. Peter Atadja, Group Leader and Senior Research Investigator at the Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, has attributed the inefficiency on the side of Biomedical Science in Ghana, to lack of support structures, like equipment, to help advance their research.

Southern African non-governmental organisations have put forward demands to their governments in resistance to the continuing talks on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states.

Amnesty International criticises death sentences passed on alleged Sudan rebels from Darfur.

Bafana Bafana midfielder Elrio van Heerden, who plies his trade at Belgium First Division side Club Brugge, will not have recovered from injury when Bafana takes on Nigeria in the World/African Nations Cup qualifiers to be held in his hometown

Orlando Pirates midfielder Lebohang Mokoena has committed his future to the Buccaneers again after signing a three-year contract this morning.

Of the 15 players Orlando Pirates put on transfer on June 9, only six are still kicking their heels at the Soweto giants.

Ghana's mineral revenue increased 39 percent to $1.2 billion in the six months through June, boosted by gold and manganese sales, the West African country's Chamber of Mines said in an e-mailed statement.