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IPI News: Africa

Thursday, 04 February 2010
Ghana's President John Atta Mills of the opposition NDC party speaks during his inauguration ceremony at the independence square in Accra January 7, 2009. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Ghana Government Tells IPI Investigation Launched into Journalist Mistreatment Allegation

Following IPI Letter to President, Ghana Embassy Says ‘Matter Receiving Serious Attention’ 

The Office of the President of Ghana is giving “serious attention” to allegations that Ghanaian journalist James Donkor was mistreated by police, following a 19 November IPI letter addressed to H.E. President John Evans Atta Mills.

In a 28 January letter to IPI, the Head of Mission of the Ghanaian Embassy in Vienna, H.E. Mr. Ernest Amporful, noted that the IPI letter had been forwarded to the Office of the President, which “has since indicated that the matter was receiving serious  ...

DW: Stanislas Ocloo, Togo

Saturday, 09 January 2010