Ghana

Kwasi grew up in a village in Ghana in the care of a grandmother, but in 2003 she sent him to Belgium to stay with an aunt.

It reminds me for a moment of my own student days, when my country, Ghana, was newly independent.

Amina Addy: If you're doing contemporary music in Ghana, you might be able to live from what you're doing.

Ghana was an agricultural country when it was in the colonial times, and cocoa was the prop of the agricultural economy.

Ghana, meanwhile, played with two men in front of the defence as well as with three midfielders to help out in both attack and defence.

Since the New Year, Ghana continued to cause significant casualties in the accident, has killed more than 50 people dead.

He began to get up but then opted to lay on the ground and delay the game for 92 seconds-a tactic that helped preserve Ghana's lead.

There had been claims that the Ghana FA believed the Chelsea man had feigned the injury and could ban him from featuring in Germany.

The company has always had an interest in Africa and made a big find off the coast of Ghana in 2007.

So Ghana, as hosts of this year's African Cup, got the kind of global media coverage often reserved for African wars and calamities.

China will continue to provide assistance to Ghana to the best of its ability to contribute to Ghana's economic and social development.

The money will be used to boost Ghana's communications infrastructure by increasing the number of phone lines and improving Internet access.

"The fact that he is the first black American president visiting Ghana is a thing for us, " he said.

At least 16 people have been killed when a disused gold mine collapsed in central Ghana, local authorities say.

In Ghana, unless you can afford such a service privately, rubbish disposal is an individual problem.

Mr Bush and his wife will visit Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda and Tanzania.

His Ghana speech was sensible and stirring. But in the end his message was that African-American relations would see no grand change.

You know, the faculty there didn't want us to memorize information and repeat back to them, as I was used to back in Ghana.

"Paul" has so far rightly predicted Germany's first round victories over Ghana and Australia as well as Germany's defeat against Serbia.

Thus may we take pride in the name of ghana, not out of romanticism, but as an inspiration for the future.

The resolution, drafted by the United States and France, was also co-sponsored by Denmark, Ghana, Greece, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.

Botswana, Ghana and Kenya have been shouldering the burden since World Bank loans dried up in the 1990s.

Sam Knight traveled to Ghana to see one region from which potential environmental refugees might come.

Notwithstanding that America has exited the last two World Cups by losing to Ghana, we already have one of the world's top teams.

Powerlifter Charles Teye will be waving Ghana's flag high at the Paralympics in London.

So a few years after this event, I leave Ghana on a scholarship to go to Swarthmore College for my education. It was a breath of fresh air.

Axelson said he wants to continue raising money to build wells in Ghana. He plans to start a water fundraising club at his school.

And he's in contention to start against Ghana on Monday given that Gianluca Zambrotta has been ruled out of the opener with injury.

Yacub Addy: There was no support for traditional music in Ghana.

Tunisia can still qualify for the knockouts, but at this stage Ghana are the only African participants.

The two men decided to travel to Ghana to try to rouse interest in producing the bike locally.

Liberia is one of the countries on his itinerary, along with Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana.

Ghana must win against the Burkinabe side to progress from Group B, but their hopes look to have been dealt a major blow.

"We are in for a hell of a time, " says Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development.

CNOOC has been thwarted in some of its recent attempts to do deals. It failed to secure stakes in large offshore fields in Angola and Ghana.

Open them and it's just a World Cup game highlight (speaking of great words: Uruguay vs. Ghana).

But if you ask me will the fans in Africa understand what happened? Not really, and for that he is the most hated person in Ghana.

However, by 1999, Egypt, Ghana and Nigeria had withdrawn, leaving South Africa and Morocco to fight it out.

She says China was a shock from her native Ghana.

President of Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor held a grand ceremony at the airport to see him off.

He is a big star back in Ghana and is a key man in Chelsea as well.

"Ghana has consolidated its democracy, " said the European Union's chief observer, Nickolay Mladenov.

He was also Assistant Coach at Sengkang FC in Singapore and with International Allies, in Ghana.

Through such efforts, Ghana is making steady progress toward the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for safe drinking water.

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, told reporters in Ghana, "a strong dollar is in our nation's interest" .

Ratha recently urged the Philippines, Kenya, Pakistan, and Ghana to offer diaspora bonds to its overseas workers.

Hopson has discussed possible future applications for the system in Cambodia, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Ghana.

The Bayern Munich winger had missed the Netherlands' two previous warm-up matches, against Mexico and Ghana, due to a hip problem.

My pastor and I have been invited back to preach God's word in the Volta Region of Ghana Africa over the Easter weekend.

During trips abroad, as on this state visit to Ghana, the presidential standard is replaced by the flag of the host nation.

In Ghana, held to be the continent's most competitive market, South Africa's MTN, Zain and Vodafone face three smaller competitors.

Where else do Algeria and the U. S. meet on a level playing field? Uruguay and Ghana? North Korea and Brazil? Japan and Cameroon?

This success was vital for the Serbians, who secured their first World Cup win as an independent nation, coming after their defeat by Ghana.

But Ghana's new tack is noteworthy since the country is in the midst of an oil boom.

And Ghana is an important member of Economic Community of West African States and its development momentum is sound.

I'll have to take note of this after the United States' Saturday game against Ghana.

The UK and China are currently exploring possibilities for practical co-operation between the two aid programmes in Ghana and Tanzania.

Chased off one goldfield in Prestea, Ghana, illegal miners shifted to this abandoned concession along the Pra River.

Just look at the commercial fish farm operated and maintained by the group in one of Ghana's government-owned wastewater treatment plants.

He spent more than two months preparing for an intensive, two-week experience as a volunteer in Ghana .

Alessandro Nesta looks as if he has recovered from injury in time to play for Italy against Ghana in the World Cup on Monday.

And like that humble schoolboy, the President assured the Pope he would read it on the flight to Ghana.

Serbia, Ghana and Australia are their opponents in Group D, a difficult set of matches in the eyes of the Hertha skipper.

Then it was said to be competing with Exxon Mobil for a stake in a big field off Ghana.

Ghana have one of the best midfields in the world and he is a regular fixture in their side. He is a player with a big future.

Our aim is to establish in Ghana a strong and progressive society . . .

Uruguay defender and captain Diego Lugano damaged a right knee ligament against Ghana. He is struggling to be fit for the semi-final.

As it turned out, there were plenty of Americans willing to spend their days in Ghana, their lives traveling the world.

The tour has covered the nations of Nigeria, Mali, and now, Ghana, and was arranged by the Irish rock star, Bono.

The country was shocked and distraught when he picked Spain to win after tipping German wins over Argentina, England, Ghana and Australia.

Speaking to Ghana's national assembly, he emphasised that the continent's moment of promise is one that Africans must seize for themselves.

After the players picked themselves up off the floor, Ghana officials said they had no recourse to protest.

Elder Ballard is pleased that the church is now more open: he gushes about its growth in Ghana and Nigeria.

Some American students from Florida are bringing the business of bee keeping beekeeping to farmers in a community in Ghana.

Now, while I was at Microsoft , the annual revenues of that company grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana .

Should he join Sunderland, Muntari would link up with Ghana international team-mate Asamoah Gyan at the Stadium of Light.

"Shine on black stars" was the chant for Ghana during the recent World Cup in South Africa.

And he lauded "leaders who accept defeat graciously" , as they did recently in Ghana, a rare event in Africa.

He said Ghana and China have a long history of friendly relations and both peoples enjoy profound friendship.

Ghana was recently declared a middle-income country, based mainly on a rebasing of its economic indicators.

The Upper Guinean rainforest in Ghana is vanishing fast, farming and timber having claimed more than 80% of its original expanse.

Those with cars and foreign accounts have been popping over the border into Liberia or Ghana to stock up on cash.

Another team developed a mobile bicycle pump in Ghana to help farmers get water for irrigation.

The next trials will expand to include Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique.

The recent study was carried out in a region of Ghana where the disease is common.

I was a bit sad when I saw the bold headline at Modern Ghana website yesterday; "Rawlings Homeless" .

One of AFRICOM's two deputies will be Mary Carlin Yates, a senior State Department official and former ambassador to Ghana.

Other countries that have launched the project are Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.

Some American students from Florida are bringing the business of beekeeping to farmers in a community in Ghana.

Essien watched Ghana's games on television but he was preoccupied by what he had to do.

The Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, is an old chum of Mr Gbagbo, and Ghana makes money from the conflict.

But the F. A. O. says Ghana is the only country that has reached two sets of hunger reduction targets.

This afternoon the Azzurri Coach oversaw a game between ranks that experimented the two most likely alternatives for the Ghana clash.

Cases also popped up in Mali, Togo and Ghana and Cote d'Ivore, which hadn't reported polio for four years.

Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British.

Ghana's long-term vision is to become a middle-income country by the turn of year 2020 with significant improvements in living standards.

It's basically rice cooked in beans and is found at all the street stalls in Ghana.

Mr. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush arrived in Ghana Tuesday, the fourth stop of a five-nation tour of Africa.

A goal the U. S. team lost to Ghana, overtime, missed the South Africa World Cup quarterfinals.

He is not allowed to work and would lose his residence permit were he to travel to Ghana.

In Ghana, a gold dealer is being accused of fraud after he alleged he was held up and robbed of gold he had promised to customers.

Michael grew up Accra, capital of his homeland Ghana, and the city that also gave the world Marcel Desailly.

Michael Essien missed the last African Cup of Nations, but Ghana is making sure he will not go unnoticed this time around.

The result also puts Ghana through after finishing the Group with a superior goal difference to Australia.

Trokosi is a traditional practice of slavery still seen as normal in parts of Ghana, Togo and Benin.

And building latrines in Ghana is not intrinsically more valuable than coaching basketball at the local Y.

Without cocoa supplies from Ghana, Cadbury would be in big trouble.

Ghana beats the USA, Argentina beats France, Holland beats Paraguay, Brazil beats Honduras, Italy beats Cameroon and Spain beats Portugal.

Better roads in Ghana's rural areas have reduced the cost of moving goods and people by one-third.

Recent studies of migration from countries as far apart as Ghana, Fiji, India and Romania have found support for this "brain gain" idea.

Michael Essien was on target for Ghana as they won a second game in the Far East.

Some saw Mr. Obama's decision to visit Ghana as a snub to Kenya for its recent instability and democratic difficulties.

With Ghana and the Netherlands also drawing, all four teams in Group B are sharing the top spot with one point each.

Radio and television broadcasting has brought a decidedly commercialized version of Valentine's Day to the tiny African nation of Ghana.

Ghana thanks for China's support and assistance over the years and deems China an important cooperative partner.

The Ghana midfielder finalised the deal as the team touched down in China.

Mabey & Johnson tried to influence officials in Jamaica and Ghana when bidding for public contracts.

Researchers found that antimalarials in cities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda failed the basic quality tests.

Bob Bradley led the U. S. into the second round of the World Cup, where they lost in overtime to Ghana.

Some American students from Florida are bring bringing the business of bee keeping beekeeping to farmers in the a community in Ghana.

That's according to the mayor's office, which ranks Ethiopia, Nigeria and Ghana as the top countries of origin for most immigrants.

The president and Mrs. Bush visited Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia last week.

To date, the MCC has signed compacts with Armenia, Benin, Cape Verde, Georgia, Ghana, Honduras, Madagascar, Nicaragua and Vanuatu.

He was a member of the Ghana Under-23 team which won a historic gold medal at this year's All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique.

Chocolate could become as rare as caviar, said John Mason of the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council.

But other loans have been for infrastructure projects in Ghana and Mozambique and railways in Belarus.

He is certain that artisans across the continent are jealous that Ghana is getting President Obama first.

Had he done so minutes earlier, Ghana and all of Africa would be celebrating an historic achievement.

Benin , Ghana and Ivory Coast have thousands of current cases of Buruli ulcer disease.

The project includes Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali. The other countries are Senegal, Cameroon, Benin, Togo and Chad.

Moreover, a leading member of Ghana's ruling party later confirmed that the government also does not approve of the Exxon deal.

John Atta Mills was sworn in as Ghana'snew president after a wafer-thin victory in a run-off against the former ruling party's candidate.

Statutory land arrangements have influenced significantly tenure security in Ghana.

Germany have been drawn with Australia, Ghana and Serbia in Group D of the tournament.

The only thing left for Ghana was how it would react.

Earlier in the tournament, the eight-legged oracle correctly tipped Germany to beat Ghana and Australia in their Group D matches.

He committed to making Ghana industrialization, in order to shake off the international trading system in a weak position.

After Tanzania, the president visits Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia.

It formally extended to Ghana the status of an approved destination for Chinese tour groups.

Before that, he was the Director of Medical Services for Ghana.

Ghana has a tradition of elaborate coffins, which is especially strong among the southeastern Ga people.

"But it doesn't score well compared to what people perceive is Ghana's potential, " he adds.

The Newly elected president of Ghana John Atta Mills has been sworn in at the ceremony of the independence square in Accra.

It was during those early days in Ghana that Freddy's mother Amelia first encouraged her soccer prodigy.

Jarvis made his first England appearance in the friendly with Ghana and is also a target for Anfield boss Kenny Dalglish.

Election observers will include a coalition from Ghana, the regional bloc ECOWAS and the United Nations.

U. S. President Barack Obama arrives in Ghana Friday on his first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa as president.

The exceptions were Tanzania, Russia, Philippines, Pakistan, Mexico, Kenya, India and Ghana.

He responded with praise and warm words for Ghana and its democratic institutions.

He actually has a publication already in the American Economic Review on the Return to Capital with Ghana.

Pineapple farmers in Ghana are using PDAs and bar coding technology to facilitate transport and increase crop yields.

A multi-centre evaluation of the findings will be undertaken by researchers in Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana and Kenya.

And Tanzania and Ghana are among the top 10 reformers worldwide.

The Ghana people will not forget that the Chinese people have always stood by the Ghana people when Ghana was in difficulty.

Benin, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal, led by Ghana, have pioneered research on biofuel and jatropha plantations.

China's copycat cellphones sell well in Ghana where many young people tote China-made mobiles, China Youth Daily reported.

Such countries as Ghana and Ethiopia boast young, entrepreneurial populations.

But in Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Liberia, Papua New Guinea and South Africa, rates of care-seeking for pneumonia have improved.

In the quarter finals: Brazil beats Holland, Germany beats Mexico, Argentina beats Ghana, Spain beats Italy.

But Zimbabwe, unlike Ghana, does not permit dual citizenship.

In West Africa, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo have had outbreaks in 2007.

Ghana's central midfielders Appiah and Michael Essien worked their socks off to negate the threat of Nedved and Rosicky.

On Planet Football, the rising powers are largely from Africa, such as the "Black Stars" of Ghana who saw off the Americans on Saturday.

It offers classes in Argentina, China, Ghana and several countries in Europe.

Eventually, opposing forces in Liberia were pushed to hold peace talks in Ghana.

And it shows in the case of Ghana, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Senegal and others.

Laura Bush visited Rwanda, Tanzania, Sou th Africa, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria on two previous African trips.

Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave unexceptionable insightmight sound a shade patronising.

Cnooc sent a senior delegation of officials to the Ghana capital of Accra a couple weeks back, including Cnooc Chairman Fu Chengyu.

In Ghana, the share of assets and share of land owned by women are positively associated with higher family food budgets.

And every single one of them has been placed. And we're getting great reports back from corporate Ghana, corporate West Africa.

Considering Ghana is in the World Cup for the first time ever, pundits might speculate wrongly and dismiss the Ghanaian team as underdogs.

If Ghana bought more hybrid seeds, it could presumably achieve something closer to Brazilian yields.

In Ghana, workers' cooperatives receive fair trade prices for the cocoa they produce.

Relations between Ghana and the United States had started downhill after September 1960.

The winner will be announced following the African Cup of Nations group stages at a special ceremony in Accra, Ghana in early February 2008.

The Journal also said that senior Exxon officials are traveling to Ghana on Monday to discuss the bid with government officials.

Benin , Ghana and Ivory Coast have thousands of current cases of bruly Buruli ulcer disease.

Wen left Accra, capital of Ghana, for Brazzaville after concluding his official visit to Egypt and Ghana.

China's aid is not only about giving a fish, but teaching to fish, playing a positive role in Ghana's economic and social development.

Every major road is lined with hawkers flogging Black Star flags, and every newspaper tells why Ghana must win.

The new hub will complement the efforts of the USAID trade hubs in Botswana, Ghana, and Kenya.

The report will be presented at a roundtable discussion at an UNCTAD conference in Ghana in April.

Matches involving Ghana were over-subscribed, with large corporate ticket allocations taking up many of the seats.

In exchange, Chinese consumers enjoy oranges from Egypt, cocoa from Ghana and wine from South Africa.

The UK, Give Your Vote argues, has particular influence in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Ghana.

Wen also met with the staff of the Chinese Embassy in Ghana and representatives from Chinese-funded institutions and overseas Chinese.

The president and Mrs. Bush visited in Benin , Tansania, Rwanda, Ghana and Lerbria last week.

From Accra, Ghana, to Hyderabad, India, groups of NGOs are working together to build urban agriculture networks.

While my uncle is no exception, Ghana certainly is.

As barley production in Russia slumped, the production of sorghum in Sierra Leone and Ghana surged.

Case in point: Ghana, in West Africa, where most of the northern half of the country lives without lights.

In recent months, China has made huge trade and investment deals with Ghana, Kenya, Sudan and Nigeria.

A Ghana fan painted in the national colors awaits the start of the match against Uruguay July 2 at Soccer City Stadium in Soweto.

The team reported that limited supplies of bed nets could help explain the more limited effects in Zambia and Ghana.

He had flown from Accra in Ghana to Lagos in Nigeria, where he boarded a flight to Amsterdam before changing planes for Detroit.

The choice of Ghana for his first African visit as president was pointed.

A former British colony in the southern part of the Gold Coast, now part of Ghana.

The connections he has formed with classmates from India and Ghana have helped him locate potential new business there, he says.

Ghana, for instance, which reverted to civilian rule only in 1992, has twice changed governments after tight elections.

Ghana's parliament has voted to increase royalties from 3% to 5%, although the president has yet to sign the bill.

I made many such journeys myself as a high school student living in Ghana in the early 1990s.

In Ghana today, one in two people has access to telecom services.

With subsidiaries in Ghana and South Africa, the group sells hair care products in large volumes.

In Ghana, more than 20 Chinese businessmen have been arrested this year for illegal mining.

Abedi Pele is still regarded as Ghana's greatest footballer ever.

But the findings in Ghana were more difficult to explain, because deaths from causes other than malaria fell more sharply.

The 18th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines is taking place in Accra, Ghana on 21-25 March.

Ghana will be looking to rewrite history books when they take on Uruguay in a quarter-final clash at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

But the situation is not all sweetness for poor cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast and neighboring Ghana.

Tourism is Ghana's fourth largest foreign currency earner behind gold, cocoa, and timber.

An American friend of mine, this year, volunteered as a nurse in Ghana.

In late April and May, babies are hatched from eggs collected from wild females in Ghana, Togo and Benin.

The authors focused the logistic decision space questions on the use of guidelines for facilities in Ghana and Guatemala.

He heads an environmental group in Florida called One Village Planet that works in Ghana and Haiti.

A supporter of Ivory Coast blows his trumpet to celebrate victory against Ghana during their group stage match in Cabinda January 15.

Sylla Hamed in Ghana wants to know the differences between a university and a community college.

I was born and raised in Europe, so I only visited Ghana for the first time a few months ago.

Lamptey was neglected and abused by both parents during his childhood in Accra and Kumasi, the two biggest cities in Ghana.

The Sahara is advancing into Ghana and Nigeria at the rate of 3, 510 square kilometers per year.

Twenty five years ago, Mozambique and Namibia were also being torn apart by war and Ghana was lurching from coup to coup.

The tree is common in all forests of equatorial West Africa, more precisely in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Zaire, Cameroon and Nigeria.

He also had a clean sheet against a top Serbian side in Ghana's opener.

Sylla Hamed in Ghana wants to know the difference between a university and a community college.

Today, guinea-worm disease is prevalent in only 11 countries in Africa including Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Togo.

What was it that drew you back to Ghana?

Ouattara at the end of the day home after visit to Ghana.

The other top 10 reformers, in order, are Croatia, Ghana, Macedonia, Georgia, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, China and Bulgaria.

The loans will also finance medical programs in Ghana using Chinese expertise.

Artist Jackie Abrams spent time living and working with women basket weavers in Ghana.

Ghana's last 3 goals at the World Cup have been penalties, including in their last match against Serbia.

we are a group of marketing professionals who are currently running a professional college in Ghana.

The remaining African countries that prohibit multiple citizenship must follow the example that gave Boateng the option to play for Ghana.

Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania and Coted'Ivoire have also accounted for the change in distribution n of mobile connections.

She said that today she is working with people in Ireland, India and Ghana who want to establish Edible Education programs.

Ghana is exceptional in letting power change hands after a really close election result.

Mr Ouattara has called for it, but Ghana and the Gambia objected.

city Accra-Ghana at the end of each year.

One international survey ranked South Africa last of 45 countries in science scores, behind Ghana and Botswana.

But if you're doing traditional music in Ghana, [there] simply isn't a lot of support for it.

This is, of course, an average: Rates vary a great deal from one country to another, from 6 percent in South Korea to 92 percent in Ghana.

Cameron take on DR Congo in Ughelli in their first match while Ghana play Mali in Oghara.

We are exploring the possibilities for development co-operation on the ground in Ghana and Tanzania.

Near a presidential stop in Ghana, a counter assault-team member scans for threats.

If other countries have more productive cocoa farmers, let them take Ghana's place.

We have your name and address from the Commercial Counsellor's Office of the Chiness Embassy in Ghana.

and in ghana, thumbs up is a rude gestures. to avoid giving offense, keep your hands quiet.

Ghana's presidential election has been won by incumbent President John Mahama, the electoral commission has announced.

Background: Ghana is the second largest cocoa producer in the world and is rich in gold and timber.

When Premier Wen left Accra, Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor and Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Zhang Keyuan saw him off at the airport.