TRADE-WEST AFRICA: ACCRA, Nov 27 (IPS) - On a hot November afternoon, Opanin Owusu Adu showed me around his farm on the outskirts of Suhum, a town in the Eastern Region in Ghana. He pointed out what has happened to the cocoa trees that he ...
A tanker truck carrying gasoline overturned on a highway in Ghana and exploded while people were trying to take the leaking fuel on Wednesday, killing at least 21 and injuring about 80, police said. The accident occurred on a highway between the ...
POLITICS-GHANA: ACCRA, Nov 26 (IPS) - The upside: three political parties selected women as vice-presidential candidates in the general elections of 7 December, the first time ever in Ghanas history. The downside: the parties are small and ...
Police say at least 21 people have been killed in Ghana after a tanker carrying gasoline overturned on a highway and exploded as people were trying to take the fuel. Seth Oteng, a regional police commander, says the accident occurred on a highway ...
ACCRA — A tanker truck carrying gasoline overturned on a highway in Ghana and exploded while people were trying to take the leaking fuel on Wednesday, killing at least 21 and injuring about 80, police said. The accident occurred on a highway between ...
MINING-WEST AFRICA: ACCRA, Oct 24 (IPS) - The Economic Community of West African States has taken the unprecedented step of inviting Oxfam America to coordinate the drawing up of a mining code for the region. The decision has infuriated ...
POLITICS-GHANA: ACCRA, Oct 16 (IPS) - Mawusi Awity and her husband were willing to jeopardize his military career for her dream of running for parliament in Ghana but there was another price to pay that she could not afford. "The excessive ...
Sudan's president warned Thursday that attempts by the International Criminal Court to prosecute him on charges of waging a genocidal campaign in Darfur are undermining attempts to bring peace to the region. Prosecutors at the Hague-based ...
WEST AFRICA: ACCRA, Sep 18 (IPS) - The international cotton trade has been a sad tale for West African countries. The region produces five percent of the worlds cotton and 15 percent of the global cotton fibre trade. Yet West African ...
DEVELOPMENT: By Francis Kokutse and IPS correspondents ACCRA, Sep 5 (IPS) - Delegates from both developing and developed countries have adopted the Accra Agenda For Action (AAA) as a guide to improve the way aid is given and spent. The ...
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