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Empty land and grass with blue sky - climate - environment Climate Change: Its Effects On Migration, Conflict In Northern Ghana Wed 16 May 2012
Scientific evidence available to various research institutions in Ghana have showed that the three regions of the North – comprising Upper West, Upper East and Northern... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Joy Online
Climate   Ghana   Photos   Research   Wikipedia: Ghana
A lady selling food.   Une dame en train de vendre la nouriture . Togo and Africa Africa must end hunger to sustain growth - U.N Tue 15 May 2012
NAIROBI, May 15 (AlertNet) - Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and address the debilitating hunger that affects 27 percent of its population if it is to... (photo: WN / Eteh) The Star
Africa   Development   Food   Photos   Wikipedia: Africa
A man holds the Ghana flag, during celebrations to commemorate Ghana's 50 years of independence at the Independence Square in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday, March 6, 2007. Veep Urges Ghanaians To Promote National Unity Mon 14 May 2012
The Vice-President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has urged Ghanaians, irrespective of their political and cultural differences, to pursue activities that will promote national... (photo: AP / Olivier Asselin) Graphic
Cultural   Ethnic   Ghana   Photos   Wikipedia: Culture of Ghana
Coconut oil - oil Coconut Oil Processors call for establishment of local oil market Sun 13 May 2012
The three coconut growing districts in the Western Region have expressed their determination to support the establishment of a local oil market within the districts. The... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag) Ghana Business News
Business   Economy   Market   Photos   Wikipedia: Coconut oil
David Peters, right, and Luke Whited, a gay couple who were joined in a civil union in their home state of Illinois, show their rings inside the Bourbon Pub, a gay bar, after being interviewed about President Obama's statement of support of gay marriage, in New Orleans, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Gay marriage a distant dream around the world Thu 10 May 2012
BANGKOK (AP) — China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. Mobs in Senegal have disinterred bodies of men they believe were gays and dragged... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert) my SA
Activists   Gays   Marriage   Photos   Wikipedia: Homosexuality
A girl suffering cholera symptoms receives treatment at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday Nov. 12, 2010. 20 per cent of Ghanaian children are not immunised Sun 6 May 2012
A research conducted by the UNICEF in 2011 in Ghana indicates that 20 per cent of children below two years have no access to immunisation against childhood diseases. The... (photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti) Peace FM Online
Ghana   Health   Kids   Photos   Wikipedia: Immunization
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, arrives at a polling station during the first round of the French presidential elections in Sarcelles, north of Paris, Sunday, April 22, 2012. Disgraced Strauss-Kahn faces new rape claims over sex party at Washington hotel Sat 5 May 2012
French prosecutors will decide next week – after the presidential election – whether a formal investigation of Mr Strauss-Khan in Lille for alleged "pimping"... (photo: AP) The Independent
Crime   France   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Conrad Black walks with his two dogs as he arrives at his Bridle Path residence in Toronto on Friday, May 4, 2012. Conrad Black walks free, but faces a tough climb back to respectability Sat 5 May 2012
As expected Black, who once controlled The Daily Telegraph, The Jerusalem Post and the Chicago Sun-Times, left a federal corrections centre in Miami early yesterday.... (photo: AP / The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette) The Independent
Canada   Crime   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Conrad Black
A child suffering cholera symptoms receives treatment at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday Nov. 12, 2010. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever and hundreds have died. About 100 babies in Nothern Ghana receive two new vaccines Fri 4 May 2012
About 100 babies in Tamale were on Friday given the first dose of two new vaccines recently introduced into the country to protect children against pneumonia and... (photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti) Ghana Business News
Ghana   Kids   Photos   Vaccine
Togo riot police face off supporters of opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre protested in Lome, Togo. Tuesday March 9, 2010. The Togo Police Drama Thu 3 May 2012
The persistent denial by the Ho Municipal Chief Executive, Isaac Kodobisah, of his involvement in the release of four policemen who were detained in Zukpe Police Post in... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba) Peace FM Online
Democracy   Photos   Police Arrest   Togo   Wikipedia :Politics of Togo
A woman working in the farm - labourer Women are more vulnerable to effects of climate change – Expert Thu 3 May 2012
Climate change watchers have observed that women are more vulnerable to the effects of the phenomenon because they are mostly poor and depend on raw natural resources for... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Ghana Business News
Climate   Nature   Photos   Wikipedia: Woman   Women
Newborn baby - Infant - Child One in ten world births premature: report Thu 3 May 2012
About 15 million premature babies are born every year - more than 1 in 10 of the world's births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba) NZ Herald
Health   Newborns   Photos   Wikipedia: Preterm birth   Women
Britain's Prince Charles, left, walks in the honounary graduates procession at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Thursday, June 21, 2001, with the African tribal king of the Asante, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei TUTU II. The two later received honorary degrees from the University of Glasgow. Asantehene Nullifies Juasohene's Enstoolment Wed 2 May 2012
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has nullified the enstoolment of Barima Safrotwie Sarpong II as Juasohene. This was after Otumfuo Osei Tutu had established that the... (photo: AP / David Cheskin) Graphic
Africa   Ghana   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: List of rulers of Asante
Canopy walkway 40 m above ground in the Kakum National Park, Ghana.The rainforest is divided into five different layers, each with different plants and animals, adapted for life in the particular area. These are: the ground layer, the shrub layer, the understory layer, the canopy layer and the emergent layer. Tourism can stimulate trade, development – UNCTAD XIII Wed 2 May 2012
Kakum Park - One of Ghana's best tourist site Participants at the just-ended United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIII) have underscored the... (photo: Creative Commons / ZSM) Ghana Business News
Development   Ghana   Photos   Tourism   Trade   Wikipedia: Ghana
a mosquito - insect - it spreads malaria disease Malaria affects economic growth - Mrs Binka Mon 30 Apr 2012
An Executive Secretary of African Media Malaria Research Network (AMMREN), Mrs Charity Binka has observed that malaria affected the socio-economic development and... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Joy Online
Africa   Malaria   Photos   Research   Wikipedia: Malaria
File - Six-month old Christelle Jean Pierre sleeps on her mother's shoulder, as they wait for medical assistance at a cholera treatment center of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its affiliated non-governmental organization AVSI. Doctors slam mothers who refuse vaccines Mon 30 Apr 2012
Ghana has celebrated the introduction of two new vaccines to prevent pneumonia and diarrhoea - two of the biggest killers of children worldwide. The unprecedented... (photo: UN / UNICEF/Marco Dormino) The Independent
Ghana   Health   Photos   Vaccine
GULF OF MEXICO  Bales of cocaine, seized by a Coast Guard law enforcement team, are shown ready for transport off of the USS Oak Hill, Dec. 9, 2011. Working jointly with the Oak Hills crew, the Coast Guard team, comprised of members from Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team, Tactical Law Enforcement Team South and Maritime Safety and Security Team San Diego (91109), interdicted more two tons of cocaine from the motor vessel Mr. Geo. U.S. Navy photo. (1486720) ( Coast Guard law enforcement team, USS Oak Hill seize cocaine shipment ) Ghanaian Drug Baron To Be Extradicted Mon 30 Apr 2012
Robert Yaw Danquah, the 54-year-old Ghanaian drug baron who, together with three Venezuelan accomplices, imported two tonnes of cocaine valued at $400 million into The... (photo: US Coastguard) Graphic
Business   Cocaine   Gambia   Photos   Wikipedia: Ghana
Ghana pioneers new child vaccines Ghana pioneers new child vaccines Fri 27 Apr 2012
Ghana has become the first country in Africa to start protecting children against two of the continent's deadliest infant diseases with simultaneous vaccinations.... (photo: ONUCI / Patricia Esteve) BBC News
Africa   Ghana   Photos   UN   Vaccines   Wikipedia: Streptococcus pneumoniae
French director Gilles Blanchard, left, and French actress Beatrice Dalle, right, pose during a photocall prior to presenting their movie "Tete d'Or" (Head of Gold), at the 59th International Film Festival Locarno, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006, in Locarno, Switzerland. Locarno Film Festival Announces Slate for Open Doors Sidebar Thu 26 Apr 2012
share Twelve movie projects from emerging filmmakers will vie for three prizes. ROME – The Locarno Film Festival on Thursday announced the dozen projects that will... (photo: AP / Martial Trezzini) The Hollywood Reporter
Festival   Film   Locarno   Photos   Wikipedia: Locarno International Film Festival
Processed timber been offloaded from a trailer vehicle in Freetown,Sierra Leone. Ghana to import timber from Cameroon – Report Thu 26 Apr 2012
Mike Hammah Ghana intends to import timber from Cameroon to feed local sawmills, a Reuters report cites Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mike Hammah as telling... (photo: WN / John Sahid) Ghana Business News
Britain   Forest   Ghana   Photos   Wikipedia: Lumber