Breakdown of Vote on Ghana’s UN Slavery Motion: The countries who voted no and 53 who abstained

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  • Benji 9 hours ago

    Know who stands with you.

  • slave ship will be full today 8 hours ago

    If the slave ship comes to cape coast now and make an announcement of people who will like to go to America with it in 5 minutes it will be full

  • Joko 8 hours ago

    It will be full in 5minutes because the real slaves have done the hard difficult work already and the one filling the ship now will not be slaves and will not see the hell the original slaves saw. Think a little you fool.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 hours ago

    AUTHOR: Ama ————-
    99% of our Kayayeis,
    Househelps and Houseboys are Northerners. President John Mahama is a Northerner and has not made any effort to change their destiny. How can he go to USA and demand Reparation ...
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  • Frank 7 hours ago

    Ken Ofori Atta will be the first to jump into the ship. Obiaaa taanido

  • Useless non-binding resolution 7 hours ago

    This just waste of everyone's time. Was it not Africans who were raiding villages and catching people to be enslaved? How many white men went into the villages to catch slaves?

  • Year of Return 7 hours ago

    Mention one African who was doing that. Ntim Gyakari? Kwasea

  • Wontumi 7 hours ago

    Kofi Abrefa Busia the wele mouth Apartheid. Was among

  • KWESI 33 minutes ago

    Go and study your history. It’s boldly written there.Anywhere you see slavery being talked about, the source of the slaves were mentioned.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 6 hours ago

    Thank you very much for your logical and candid evaluation. I have found it difficult to explain to my Senior High School and College students when asked why Africans soldiers their own into slavery. What has never been empha ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 5 hours ago

    the white soldiers who came to ghana with mercenaries to fight against the akans, taking their rulers, artifacts, women, golden stool etc. you dont think they took humans as well? go to lord trumu buckingham palace today even ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 7 hours ago

    Hahahaha OBIARA TARE NO DO FOR SO LONG but they can’t catch and bring him to Ghana for any kind of Rawlings type of Tribunal Trial. The Guy Ken Ofori Attah is fully entrenched with his family and Girlfriends and is never co ...
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  • Aanyooh Smith 6 hours ago

    His best food now is Zontoli. His trumu hymen has been mutilated by a totooed rogue from El Salvador

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 7 hours ago

    I would have voted no at the UN ASSEMBLY if Africans and Arabs were not to be involved in paying any reparations to African countries. The Billion Dollars question that has been difficult and shameful to answer is WHO WENT IN ...
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  • you lack understanding 7 hours ago

    For the same slave ship to be full toda means we blacks have failed over 100 years after slavery to develop our country to the extend that we so desperate to leave for America even if it involves the same slave ship that carr ...
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  • they say they say 8 hours ago

    I guess they'll be going as slaves. You're not intelligent at all

  • Asembenia 8 hours ago

    Yes, but they were asked and they willing wanted to leave Ghana. Boy, that's not slavery !

  • Oklemekuku 5 hours ago

    Lol

  • MPIGO 4 hours ago

    Yes the ship will be full because they are not going as slaves. Poor guy

  • our leaders lack vision 8 hours ago

    Even if we are given all the money in the world we will still be poor due to backward mentality misplaced priorities and divisions among us as a people see how politics has even divided us as a nation

  • they say they say 8 hours ago

    You chose democracy as your choice of poltics and that's how it works. I hope i explained it simple enough for your understanding

  • DRAKOVICH 8 hours ago

    THE WICKED & SATANIC DOMINIONS INHABITING THIS EARTH HAVE REVEALED THEMSELVES. ALL THOSE STUPID GHANAIANS WHO THINK THIS CURRENT STATE OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO GOD ARE 24-CARAT FOOLS...!!!! IT IS THE STUBBORNNESS & WAYWARDNESS OF ...
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  • Osei Kwame 7 hours ago

    Hmmm. Massa I shock self. The rabbit ears fool wants us to sympathise with them when Hitler was dragging them in trains to the Gas chambers. Any African who hated Hitler is a big fool

  • Blue Pen 5 hours ago

    Shut up. Ghana voted against Israel in a recent UN resolution. It became the source of banter between the Israeli Ambassador in Ghana and Sam Ablakwa (Ghana's Foreign Minister). Why are you pained if you get paid back?

    Per ...
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  • Blue Pen 1 hour ago

    Mahama also condemned Israel in his recent speech at the UN General Assembly but refused to condemn Hamas for the October 7 massacre and other subsequent actions.

    So, Ghana condemns Israel, votes against them but supports ...
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  • False prophet Mohammed 2 hours ago

    Don't be foolish,it's all about diplomacy,it doesn't mean all those who voted yes support Africa especially sub Sahara Africa

  • we have still not changed 8 hours ago

    fellow Africans sold their own brothers and sisters to the whiteman for slavery Today we are even more divided than before south africans killing west Africans with impunity extreme hatred between Ndc and Npp we should not bl ...
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  • Asembenia 8 hours ago

    You would have done the same thing at that time when they had a gun you have a stick.

  • KWESI 27 minutes ago

    Typical.Africans never accept responsibility for their evil deeds , always pointing fingers at others.Little wonder black Americans are still poor and complaining while Indian and Chinese immigrants are building wealth and be ...
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  • Lori 6 hours ago

    Failure.

  • Yaw 36 minutes ago

    They shouldn’t give a pesewa to African presidents.They will steal and send it back to America and Europe.Come to think of it, isn’t it Africans who caught and sold their own people into slavery?There is no where it was w ...
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  • CM 9 hours ago

    What is the benefit after this resolution? We still remain slaves. The true must be told

  • Behr 8 hours ago

    Useless resolution. Will the countries who voted ‘ yes ‘ pay for the reparation? Mahama is anxious to get his share

  • Zacchaeus 8 hours ago

    @Berh-The-Beasty Fool.

    Hate and bitterness will be your portion from now until 2098. God will keep elevating John Mahama over you NPP monsters for many decades to come. John Dramani Mahama.... YOUR ENEMIES ARE STILL BEING ...
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  • Blue Pen 2 hours ago

    Most likely it will be a useless resolution to a large extent, just like many other UN resolutions, including countless resolutions demanding an end to the USA economic blockade against Cuba. The countries that voted for the ...
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  • Unscru 8 hours ago

    so, EU the architect of the slave trade abstained from the vote and Uncle Sam one of the biggest beneficiaries voted against it.

    AU must take note and formulate their policies appropriately.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 6 hours ago

    You need to research more coherently. Who told you that the Europeans were the architects of that evil and shameful Human Trade? It were your own African greedy idiots and fools who fought against each other tribes, defeated, ...
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  • Agyengo. 8 hours ago

    Mahama should be careful about His security.

  • Alister Kojo 1 minute ago

    Agree with you. Historical facts are there to prove.

  • Dogo 8 hours ago

    Israel who suffered one of the horrendous crimes against humanity was bold enough to vote against this proposition? Heerrrr this world is not fair. This should guide we Africans to start doing things to protect ourselves in o ...
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  • Sly 8 hours ago

    Israel doesn’t do anything contrary to America.

  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 5 hours ago

    they dont have money to repay thats why they said no.....thats why they open their borders to immigrants from those african nations particularly from west africa. but actual monetary reparations monies paa die la lie they can ...
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  • Pelicles. 8 hours ago

    The world is fair depending on how you treat yourself. We are just "On lookers" and society hate such humans. Slavery happened some hundreds of years ago, and yes, this resolution has been adopted, but the question is, what n ...
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  • Blue Pen 2 hours ago

    Unfortunately, Israel voted against the resolution. But don't forget that just a few months ago Ghana, led by Mahama and Sam Ablakwa, voted against Israel in a UN resolution. And it generated a little diplomatic spat between ...
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  • Yooo 8 hours ago

    Great. Lincoln University Manipulated by Donald Trump saw the Promised Land but cowardice deducted them from making history !!!

  • Carrington Clarks 8 hours ago

    Yes !

  • Koppong 8 hours ago

    Which of these poor nations can even give one cedi to Mahama and kwesi Pratt

  • Akua Mansa 8 hours ago

    This historic event has OPENLY EXPOSED Who Our TRUE Enemies Of Progress Are; SURELY LET’S LEARN HOW TO RELATE TO THEM HENCEFORTH IN OUR GLOBAL FOREIGN POLICIES ; IT SURELY IS THE YARDSTICK THAT MEASURES WHO OUR TRUE FRIEND ...
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  • Agropa 8 hours ago

    They are brain dead. Our leaders are fools.

  • BOY KOFI 7 hours ago

    Slavery is an outcome of capitalism principale,when the rich needs more production,goods and money.
    The Portuguese began slavery in the West Africa to improve the production of "sugar" in the West Indies for European market. ...
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  • Aanyooh Smith 6 hours ago

    With the Bible in one hand. Pastor gbonyo be that

  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 5 hours ago

    lol smh

  • Owusu 7 hours ago

    President John Dramani Mahama the Legacy President

  • Owusu 7 hours ago

    President John Dramani Mahama, the Legacy President of Republic of Ghana.

  • Anane 7 hours ago

    The greatest surprises here supporting the motion are SaudiArabia and the UAE. Is it about gold,

  • Sycamore 6 hours ago

    Now we know Russia and China stands with Africa
    We must go east and not west again

  • Owan Yaw aka Lisiemine Ubi 6 hours ago

    And I guess modern day immigrants would start looking towards Russia and China, no longer to Europe and North America. How about that?

  • Yusif 6 hours ago

    Your youth are using the Sahara desert still to travel out of the country to do cleaning jobs ! You are here fooling yourselves about a program Akuffo Addo started.

    Meadeocure NDC

  • Now Africans know their enemies 6 hours ago

    Sad Israel was part. How Ghanaians love Christianity n Jews

  • AFRICANS ARE FOOLS - AFRICAWATCH 2 hours ago

    Ghanaians love Israel because they are fools. Israel hates Christianity and Jesus Christ and disrespect blacks. Israel is a shit,racist,murderous nation. Any African who supports Israel is a big fool

  • FACT 6 hours ago

    THE COLONIAL COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE TO PAY THE REPARATIONS ABSTAINED.
    ● Motion Passed.
    ● Implementation is Dead on Arrival.

  • Kojo 5 hours ago

    I don't see why Christians believe so much in Israel. They are very wicked and heartless people. With the help of America they won't mind enslaving other countries again.

    As for Argentina, I feel sorry for them. Kiss ass c ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 5 hours ago

    argentina is anti black n it reflects in their poverty stricken economy

  • Cho cho cho 4 hours ago

    Not even one advanced economy voted, very sad, it means that they do not want to alter the world economic arrangement, the motion is defeated inter alia

  • Achakanapaya 4 hours ago

    The white Man is the representative of Satan on Earth.

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 4 hours ago

    The nation's that abstained..why did they abstain? Fools

  • Okomfo Anokye conjured a Golden Stool 26 minutes ago

    They only washed their hands like Harod Agripa when the same Jews presented Jesus to be crucified. Stupid Vatican

  • Jubilee House Rat. 4 hours ago

    Thank almighty Lord Jesus. The incompetent official numéro uno, did not succeed in his dubious attempt aka scamming scheme of the Westerners, this time!

  • BK 34 minutes ago

    Why is isreal denying our suffering while commit genocide in the name of their holocaust

  • Donatus 17 minutes ago

    Very unethical. We squandered the proceeds of the slave trade and now asking for more to waste it again. Why are we not asking for accountability?

  • Sage 11 minutes ago

    That tells you those that benefitted abstained or chose no