Book Launch: Yash Tandon's Ending Aid Dependence

Tuesday 4 November 2008, 17:00-18:00
At: Chatham House, 10 St James's Square, London, SW1Y 4LE
Speaker: Yash Tandon, Executive Director, South Centre, Geneva.

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In his new book Ending Aid Dependence, Yash Tandon reviews the possibilities for change in the architecture of aid. The author explores the extent to which many developing countries reliant on aid wish to escape dependence, and yet are constrained from doing so. Proposing that moving away from dependence should be at the top of the political agenda of all developing countries, this timely book cautions countries of the global South from falling into the aid trap and endorsing the collective colonialism of the OECD.

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Ghana: Minister Interrupts TV programme

2008-05-01

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Joe Baidoo Ansah, Ghana's Minster of Trade and Industry, on April 24, 2008, interrupted a live-broadcast on Metropolitan Television (Metro TV), an Accra-based TV station, to register his displeasure about the inclusion of Nii Moi Thompson, an opposition spokesman, in the flagship programme "Good Evening Ghana".
Ghana ALERT: Minister Interrupts TV programme

Joe Baidoo Ansah, Ghana's Minster of Trade and Industry, on April 24, 2008, interrupted a live-broadcast on Metropolitan Television (Metro TV), an Accra-based TV station, to register his displeasure about the inclusion of Nii Moi Thompson, an opposition spokesman, in the flagship programme "Good Evening Ghana".

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) correspondent reported that the minister who was unhappy about Thompson's comments stormed the studio amidst insult and threats, forcing a break in transmission.

Metro TV, a state/private station run a special edition of Good Evening Ghana to review the just ended United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Accra. It was during the programme that Thompson, who had been invited in his capacity as a policy analyst, made critical comments against the government.

Ansah told JOY FM, an Accra-based independent station, that he went into the studio to protest against the politicization of otherwise a United Nation programme.

Following the Minister's behaviour, that particular edition of the "Good Evening Ghana" was not rebroadcast the next day as has been the practice. This led to Kwesi Pratt Jnr., Editor of the Insight, accusing the Minister of Information of masterminding it. Meanwhile, both the management of the station and the minister had denied Pratt's allegation. Explaining the rationale behind their refusal to rebroadcast, the management said that the programme was in a bad state and rebroadcasting would tarnish the country's reputation.

Prof. Kwame Karikari
Executive Director MFWA
Tel: 233 21 242470
Fax: 233 21 221084
Email: mfwa@africaonline.gh.com
Website: www.mediafound.org