Kwasi Kpodo
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/ 21 January 2008

Ghana sees image boost from soccer feast

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.

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/ 2 July 2007

Debates about unity, Darfur at AU summit

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.

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/ 30 June 2007

African leaders gather to discuss unity

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.

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/ 29 March 2006

Total solar eclipse thrills Ghanaians

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.