UN Vote on Ghana's Slavery Motion: Who said no and who abstained

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  • Benji 1 week ago

    Know who stands with you.

  • slave ship will be full today 1 week 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 1 week 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) 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • Useless non-binding resolution 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • Wontumi 1 week ago

    Kofi Abrefa Busia the wele mouth Apartheid. Was among

  • KWESI 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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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  • Adrianna Thomas 1 week ago

    You people like to pedal that lying racist narrative to absolve your guilt too much!

    Pope Nicholas V and Slavery

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  • Dread Kwame 1 week ago

    If the horse is insane the rider must not be insane, please !

  • 1HEREALTRUTH 1 week ago

    WHO TOLD YOU THAT LIE A COLONIALIST. THEY TELL YOU LIES AND YOU BELIEVE THEM AND REPORT THEM FOR THE SLAVERS WITH OUT ANY RESEARCH...BEFORE YOU PROMOTE THAT LIE AGAIN HAVE FACTS TO BACK IT UP...DAMNED FOOL.
    THE HORRORS EURO ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • Asembenia 1 week ago

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

  • Oklemekuku 1 week ago

    Lol

  • MPIGO 1 week ago

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

  • Rudy 1 week ago

    And yet he clearly have stated the ship is a slave ship so make it makes sense….

    Comprehension seems to be a difficult thing for the most of you on here.

  • TWEAA DC 1 week ago

    OKUJETO ABLAKWA WILL TURN IT INTO PROTOCOL RECRUITMENT SYSTEM FOR NDC...AND THE SHIP WILL BE FULL OF NDC COLOURS BOUND FOR AMERICA...KWESI PRATT AND HIS FAMILY WILL DEFINATELY BE THERE...TWEAA.

  • our leaders lack vision 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 week 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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  • Adrianna Thomas 1 week ago

    The slaves ships were owned and ensured by…guess who Ashkenazis!

  • False prophet Mohammed 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • KWESI 1 week 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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  • Ako Spat 1 week ago

    @Kwesi, please stop showing your ignorance. If America has an equal playing field no one will surpass the blackman. Just like how America says Iran is a failed state which you probably agree but ignore they have been under s ...
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  • beh 1 week ago

    African Immigrants also have high paying jobs as well as having good education maybe you should do you're research instead of blindly hating on your own people....

  • Adrianna Thomas 1 week ago

    You are ignorant and you serve white master well, Europeans were indeed responsible for slavery.

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  • Lori 1 week ago

    Failure.

  • Yaw 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • 1HEREALTRUTH 1 week ago

    DONT SAY WE MAYBE YOU THINK BACKWARDS BUT ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT LIKE YOU..THE PINK MAN HAS YOU THINKING RACISM AGAINST YOUR OWN SELF STUPID.

  • Behr 1 week ago

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

  • Zacchaeus 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week ago

    Mahama should be careful about His security.

  • Alister Kojo 1 week ago

    Agree with you. Historical facts are there to prove.

  • Dogo 1 week 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 1 week ago

    Israel doesn’t do anything contrary to America.

  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • Carrington Clarks 1 week ago

    Yes !

  • Koppong 1 week ago

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

  • Akua Mansa 1 week 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 1 week ago

    They are brain dead. Our leaders are fools.

  • BOY KOFI 1 week 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 1 week ago

    With the Bible in one hand. Pastor gbonyo be that

  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 1 week ago

    lol smh

  • Owusu 1 week ago

    President John Dramani Mahama the Legacy President

  • Owusu 1 week ago

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

  • Anane 1 week ago

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

  • Sycamore 1 week ago

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

  • Owan Yaw aka Lisiemine Ubi 1 week ago

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

  • Adrianna Thomas 1 week ago

    No, make your own way, you have the resources, you don’t need any non African nation.

  • Yusif 1 week 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 1 week ago

    Sad Israel was part. How Ghanaians love Christianity n Jews

  • AFRICANS ARE FOOLS - AFRICAWATCH 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • Kojo 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • Ako Spat 1 week ago

    Argentina is full of Jews, they control the country and are taking over.

  • Name 1 week ago

    Meanwhile, a small minority of Israel are Christians. The majority are jews.

  • Cho cho cho 1 week 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

  • Name 1 week ago

    Correction: only The Netherlands voted in favour.

    I'm really shocked that UK voted against.

  • Achakanapaya 1 week ago

    The white Man is the representative of Satan on Earth.

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 1 week ago

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

  • Okomfo Anokye conjured a Golden Stool 1 week ago

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

  • Jubilee House Rat. 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

  • Donatus 1 week 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 1 week ago

    That tells you those that benefitted abstained or chose no

  • awo 1 week ago

    OF COURSE ARGENTINA KILLED SLAVES AND THE REST IS NO NEWS

  • Adrianna Thomas 1 week ago

    I am surprised that Fiji abstained, shame on them!

  • Zionism is racism 1 week ago

    So zionist, criminal and terrorist israel voted against, but Iran voted in favour of the resolution. Hmmm!

  • Populist 1 week ago

    Uk,France and Portugal were the chief beneficiary of the slave trade how will the support the reparatory motion. US and Argentina are full of racist so no wonder they voted against the bill. Hypocrites. We use every medium to ...
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  • OSAFO KANTANKA 1 week ago

    Well, African Countries have been told “Who Their Friends or ENEMIES Are. What do African countries do now that they Know who their “ENEMIES are.

  • Descendant of African Slaves in the USA 6 days ago

    Some of us in the USA resonate with what you’re saying. We already know that this current administration is not for Black Americans. I now see what other countries are also not for us. But if God be for us, who can be aga ...
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  • Kobi 1 week ago

    And yet slavery still goes on today in Mother Ghana. Just take a trip to the fishing villages of Lake Volta and see the wickedness against some children there. Perhaps we should clean our own house.

  • Kofi Babone 1 week ago

    Only the hungry ones voted yes.
    Poverty will soon be classified as a form of mental illness which will require psychiatric treatment.
    We are mad as a people.
    We must understand that the global framework promotes inequa ...
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  • Kwame 1 week ago

    All wars that are waged to enslave people, exterminate, deprive then of their property, their family are unjust wars.
    It does not depend on how the perpetrator of such act will justify it. But wars waged by people who were ...
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  • YOU SEE THEM? 1 week ago

    As you can see, the breakdown shows where the racists are mostly concentrated.
    I really hope black people in a few hundred years, will also have the chance to treat white people, especially racists, the same way we were trea ...
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  • Lalas 1 week ago

    Upon all the Africa's natural resources we ain't able to develop due to greedy and wicked leadership. What will that small reparation do for Africa? Mr. Mahama, what happened to the 500,000 dollars Ghana received from the Ga ...
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  • King 1 week ago

    I hate isreal... That's why i hate pastors and Christians..... Stupid god of Israel the call it

  • Bee 1 week ago

    I pray nothing is paid because when paid the money will not reach Africa.
    African leaders aren't trust worthy, it's good our voice has been heard (MAHAMA) and must stop there.

  • Descendant of African Slaves in the USA 6 days ago

    I want to extend my gratitude to Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and other African countries in the motherland who presented and voted for the UN Resolution to name transatlantic slavery as what it truly was and continues to be as slav ...
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  • Paul Jeremie 4 days ago

    Pourquoi l'article a omis de mentionner les pays qui étaient absents du vote, tels que le Bénin ?