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Clean-up exercise in Accra announced.
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has earmarked Saturday 20 January as a clean-up day in the capital as part of preparations for the 50th anniversary of Ghanaian independence in March. The authori...
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University of Ghana gets borehole.
A new borehole has been sunk at the University of Ghana, Legon, providing much-needed relief from the perennial water shortage at the institution. Inaugurated by Dr Makowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi, Ghana
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The late Ga traditional leader, Nii Amugi II, is to be laid to rest on 27 January, 18 months after his death in July 2005, the
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Number of slum dwellers in Ghana on the rise.
The number of slum dwellers in Ghana is set to reach 5.9 million in 2010, up 500,000 from 5.4 million in 2005 (against a total population of 22.5 million), according to UN Habitat, the United Nations'...
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The World Food Programme (WFP), the emergency food-aid arm of the United Nations, has opened a logistics hub in Accra to strengthen its ability to respond to simultaneous humanitarian disasters around...
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Currency reform in the making.
The Bank of Ghana has announced plans to reform the country
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Ghanaians wanting to visit the United Kingdom (UK) for six months or more will have to undergo compulsory tuberculosis (TB) screening prior to being issued with a visa, the British immigration authori...
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Residents of Accra pay almost five times as much for their water as people living in New York and twice as much as those living in London according to the 2006 Human Development report released by the...
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Samini supports Debate to Action.
Ghanaian hiplife artist Batman Samini is the new face of the joint British Council and World Bank initiative Debate to Action (DTA) in Ghana. He will use his popularity among young Ghanaians to promot...
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Accra psychiatric patients risk starvation.
Over 1,000 patients at Accra psychiatric hospital are at risk of starvation due to lack of funding, the Ghanaian Chronicle reports. Acting chief psychiatrist Dr. Akwasi Osei told the newspaper that th...
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Ghana ranks 93rd out of 163 countries in the 2006 corruption perception index published in November by the international watchdog organisation Transparency International (TI). The West African country...
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Nine paint manufacturers and importers are offering a ten per cent discount on their products until 30 November as part of efforts to clean up the capital ahead of Ghanas golden jubilee in 2007, when...
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Hawkers at Kwame Nkrumah Circle moved for road.
Traders at Kwame Nkrumah Circle station have expressed their dismay following the demolition of their stalls to make way for a major road-building project, the on-line version of The Ghanaian Times re...
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Actis Africa Real Estate fund for investors.
British government-backed emerging markets investor CDC has set up a $100 million fund the Actis Africa Real Estate Fund to back property developments in sub-Saharan Africa. Based in Johannesburg bu...
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British Council Ghana gets new head.
October sees the departure of John Payne as country director of the British Council after three years in the post. He is to be replaced by Moses Anibaba, who was born and grew up in London but has his...
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Batman Samini wins Music of Black Origin award.
This years best African act award at the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards has gone to Ghanaian hiplife artist Batman Samini. The musician stood against fellow Africans from Uganda, South Africa and...
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Human rights and HIV/AIDS experts from all over the world are to meet in Accra 18-20 October to discuss the relationship between human rights and the global AIDS pandemic. Participants at the three-da...
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Child sex tourism on the rise.
The Ghanaian non-governmental organisation Coalition on the Rights of the Child (GNCRC) has warned of an increase in child sex tourism in the country, the Accra Mail reports. The warning, contained in...
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Roughly 50 per cent of highly educated Ghanaians have migrated to developed countries according to a United Nations report released at a special meeting on international migration at UN headquarters i...
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Kantanmanto stallholders displaced.
The demolition of part of Kantanmanto market in central Accra has led to the displacement of some 2,000 stallholders, Ghana News Agency (GNA) reports. The levelling of the structure began early in the...
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Africa Cup 2008 launch in Accra.
Ghanaian and international football players and officials will gather at the international conference centre in Accra on 8 September for the official launch of the next African Cup of Nations, which i...
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Efua Sutherland anniversary conference.
There will be a symposium on the pioneering Ghanaian playwright and childrens author Efua T. Sutherland starting from 30 August as part of a year-long festival to mark the tenth anniversary of her dea...
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Ghana Telecom University College opens.
Some 300 students will begin bachelors degree courses in September at the Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) in the Tesano district of Accra. Funded by Ghana Telecom and affiliated to the Kwame N...
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Accra residents may have problems burying their dead in a couple of years due to lack of space in the citys cemeteries. Acting director of the public health department of the Accra Metropolitan Assemb...
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Ghanaian traditional group to perform in the United States.
The Accra-based Asontaba Cultural Group has been invited to perform at the 2006 State Fair of Texas in Dallas from 29 September to 22 October. The 40-member troupe will present a variety of Ghanaian t...
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The so-called ministries area in Accra is to become off-limits to all but employees in a move aimed at improving working conditions in the public administration. The restrictions, which concern the ar...
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Parliament has approved the long-awaited Persons with Disability bill aiming to improve the quality of life of Ghanaians with physical and mental disabilities and better integrate them into mainstream...
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Emotions are running high in Ghana ahead of the knock-out match between the countrys Black Stars and World Cup favourites Brazil in Dortmund on 27 June. Ghana will be playing without midfielder Michae...
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The mood is deflated in Ghana following the country's 0-3 defeat by world champions Brazil in their second round World Cup match on 27 June. High hopes quickly turned to anxiety after Brazil scored a...
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Ghana celebrates Black Stars World Cup success.
Ghanaians are in a jubilant mood following the 2-1 victory by the countrys Black Stars over the United States in the final first-round match of the World Cup on 22 June. Immediately the whistle was bl...
