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/ 7 December 2008
Ghanaians queued up and began voting on Sunday to pick a new president in a tight race between two foreign-educated lawyers
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/ 28 November 2008
Ghana’s first major oil field should produce enough gas to generate more than 600MW of electricity, GNPC’s exploration chief said.
Pan-African banking group Ecobank on Monday launched a ,5-billion rights issue and public offer on three West African stock exchanges.
The illegal miners had left their mark. Tools, explosives, and sacks lay beside chopped power cables about 700m below ground in Ghana’s Obuasi mine.
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/ 21 January 2008
While political protests blight Kenya, Ghana will polish its image as a tourism and investment destination when it hosts the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament, which started on Sunday. Staging Africa’s most prestigious sporting event will cast a positive international spotlight on the small but stable West African state.
Though Sudan has accepted the notion of a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, the operation could still be derailed by a lack of funding and political will, AU chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare said on Sunday at the opening session of the summit of the 53-member AU.
Officially, heads of state attending the African Union summit this weekend will be discussing plans for a United States of Africa, a continental body that does away with national borders. Unofficially, the key discussion will be about the things pulling Africa apart in Sudan’s Darfur region and Zimbabwe.
Rescuers said on Tuesday that they believed they would find no more survivors after an overloaded boat carrying some 150 people sank on a Ghana lake over the weekend, and were now turning to the grim task of recovering bodies — perhaps as many as 100.
Excited schoolchildren peered skyward on Wednesday in Ghana, joining others around the world for a long-anticipated solar show — the first total eclipse in years, which will sweep north-east from Brazil to Mongolia. Throngs milled around on the beach in Ghana, in West Africa, trading protective eyewear among them.