Orla Ryan
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/ 6 March 2007

Thousands cheer Ghana’s 50th birthday

Thousands of cheering Ghanaians waving the red, yellow and green national flag packed a central square in the capital on Tuesday to celebrate the 50th birthday of the first nation in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence. Excited crowds of citizens joined invited dignitaries to celebrate the March 6 1957 anniversary of the end of British colonial rule over Ghana.

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/ 6 March 2007

Ghana parties through the night to celebrate 50

Thousands of Ghanaians danced in the streets into the early hours of Tuesday in celebrations marking the 50th birthday of the first nation in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence. With few street lights in Ghana’s capital, Accra, partygoers swayed under the moonlight to music blaring from trucks mounted with large speakers.

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/ 24 January 2007

Hero’s return to Ghana ‘completes circle’ for Annan

Hundreds of cheering well-wishers, dancing and waving Ghanaian flags, greeted former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan when he arrived in his native Ghana after 10 years at the helm of the world body. Ghanaian President John Kufuor joined a long line of politicians, diplomats and traditional chiefs awaiting Annan and his Swedish wife Nane.

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/ 27 November 2006

Ghana’s currency to shed four zeros in July

Ghana’s cedi currency will shed four zeros next July, a central bank official said on Monday, and shoppers weary of carrying big bundles of bank notes welcomed the plan. Residents of the West African country complain a combination of low-denomination notes and the low value of the cedi obliges them to carry bags full of tattered currency.

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/ 25 October 2006

Water woes hit Guinea worm fight in Ghana

Musah Issahaku could not know that the water he drank was teeming with Guinea worm larvae. Now, a bandage on the 12-year-old’s leg covers the tip of a white worm up to one metre long twisted deep into his flesh. One worm has already been removed from his other leg and each day health workers extract an inch of the spaghetti-like creature.