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  • You Say Potato, I Say Yam 25 Nov 2009 05:21 GMT
    ... taken by Henry P. Moore. It shows African-Americans at work on a plantation on Edisto ... and is of primary importance to many West African societies. From Ghana to Nigeria, yam festivals celebrate the desire ...

  • Remarks By The First Lady At Indian State Dinner Press Preview 25 Nov 2009 03:32 GMT
    ... to include the freshest ingredients from area farmers and purveyors. And because of all of ... nurses in the maternal health clinic in Ghana, in Africa, that we got to see. See, all ...

  • Will Africa's farmland become a "resource curse"? 25 Nov 2009 01:33 GMT
    ... Palm-oil trees in the making, Ivory Coast. Mike Davis teases out the mechanisms ... to buy up or lease farmland in Africa. One thing that strikes me is the ... hear relatively little about the continent's vast agricultural assets—which wealthy investors are now busily snapping ...

  • Report: GIJ Rector's Report at 3rd Congregation 25 Nov 2009 01:11 GMT
    ... OCCASION OF THE 3RD CONGREGATION OF THE GHANA INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISM ON 21sT NOVEMBER, 2009 ... some dividends. The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has pledged to support the Institute ...

  • Mr. President, It is time to reshuffle the Cabinet 25 Nov 2009 00:44 GMT
    ... necessarily represent or reflect the views of Modernghana.com." Mr. President knowing how to read and ... the difficulties facing Ghanaians. Think carefully about Agriculture. Our farmers do not have the necessary ... make our educational system the envy of Africa? What is the minister doing to make ...

  • What is wrong with African leaders? 25 Nov 2009 00:44 GMT
    ... necessarily represent or reflect the views of Modernghana.com." Corruption and embezzlement are a way of life for African leaders. From South Africa to Egypt there ... countries such as Nigeria, Egypt, Cameroon, The Gambia, Sudan, Uganda, Libya, Zimbawe, Tunisia a Kleptocracy ...

  • Ghana`s oil revenue to decline by 2017 25 Nov 2009 00:16 GMT
    ... Ghana's enthusiastic efforts to become a major oil ... become a major oil industry player in Africa could be short lived, as the country ... For instance, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Fisheries Commission and Ministry of Energy should ...

  • Economics Sheanut Factory Buipe Sheanut Processing Factory - A Dream Come True (UPDATED) 25 Nov 2009 00:16 GMT
    ... Produce Buying Company Limited (PBC), a wholly Ghanaian Company, and Messrs LDS Maquinas e' Equipmentos ... USAID Report prepared in November 2004 for West Africa Trade Hub (WATH) Ghana has an estimated ...

  • Pakistan to export 3.5m tonnes of rice 24 Nov 2009 23:53 GMT
    ... rice and paddy was aimed at helping farmers and maintaining stability in the domestic market ... and other varieties this year,' association chairman Malik Mohammad Jehangir told Reuters. 'But the government should ... and had a good response from South Africa and Gulf countries. A Pakistani trader said last month ...

  • Sole Mates: Looking for 'Profit with a Purpose' from Socially Conscious Footwear Customers 24 Nov 2009 22:16 GMT
    ... international company that sells shoes made in Africa has confronted Tal Dehtiar with a series of unexpected ... shoe company that uses natural rubber from Liberia, harvested from hevea trees and processed locally. ... Swaziland to a product placement campaign in Nigerian films for mosquito nets. Five years of ...

  • Government should help graduates start businesses 24 Nov 2009 21:34 GMT
    ... Our African societies’ leadership vacuum is more than just ... jobs, they resort to doing anything including farming which has nothing to do with what ... of the society to cause change. Mahatma Ghandi used the spinning wheel to mobilise his people ...

  • Ghana's oil revenue to decline by 2017 24 Nov 2009 19:53 GMT
    ... Ghana’s oil revenue to decline by 2017 Ghana’s ... become a major oil industry player in Africa would be short lived, as the country ... For instance, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Fisheries Commission, and Ministry of Ministry of ...

  • Spain Helping Mauritania Slow Illegal Immigration 24 Nov 2009 19:11 GMT
    ... helping Mauritania fight the illegal immigration of Africans trying to reach Europe. The number of ... it a center for illegal immigration in West Africa. Bamba Zoumana traveled overland from his home in Mali to join other West Africans trying to ...

  • The battle of Seattle 24 Nov 2009 18:31 GMT
    ... want people before profits.” Tetteh Hormeku, from Ghana, asked, “How can there be a ‘level ... playing field’ between the US and, say, Burkina Faso in Africa? There, 86 percent of the population depends ...

  • Nigeria bases budget on $57 per barrel oil price: official 24 Nov 2009 18:20 GMT
    ... A flow station in Kula in the Niger Delta. Nigeria's 2010 budget will be based ... dollars/barrel, joint venture cash calls of Nigeria, Africa's leading oil producer, derives more than 90 ... document said. The government plans to encourage agriculture, increase non-oil revenue, improve power supply, infrastructure, ...

  • The 2010 Budget: What are the prospects for the smallholder farmer [opinion] 24 Nov 2009 13:50 GMT
    ... The importance of the agriculture sector to the Ghanaian economy was manifest once again in the ... Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security in Africa. So far, the closest Ghana came to ...

  • Comment: History of oil discovery in Ghana - the EO groups role!!! 24 Nov 2009 13:36 GMT
    ... part of every government’s policy to explore Ghana’s hydrocarbon deposits. Historically, exploration for oil and ... use satellite technology to transfer data between West Africa and United States. The other partners in ...

  • PREVIEW: Namibia votes, but little change in 20 years of democracy 24 Nov 2009 12:50 GMT
    ... international relations at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. "People will maintain the status ... citizens of the former German colony in south-west Africa voted in the country's first multi-racial elections, ... are the trump cards of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the ruling party of ...

  • Scientific Discoveries Condemned 24 Nov 2009 12:36 GMT
    ... Scientific Union (ICSU) or their representatives in Africa or Ghana to come forward with answers and proof ... areas through research such as development of agriculture, electricity, mechanics, human biology, and others, thus ...

  • Reflections on the Obama generation 24 Nov 2009 12:34 GMT
    ... Canada, most of Europe and even South Africa offers, i.e. free public health care services. ... from previous policy and sorely needed. However, Afghanistan remains a weight around Obama's neck and a ... international prosperity. Contentious issues such as American farming subsidies are not even close to the ...

  • It's 7:05pm in Dar es Salaam 24 Nov 2009 12:31 GMT
    ... with about 300 radio broadcasters in 39 African countries to fight poverty and food insecurity. ... helping answer questions related to the various agricultural challenges they might be experiencing. FRI is ... also intends to use Freedom Fone in Ghana . . . stay tuned! This entry ...

  • Unpacking Industrial Vs Mass Democracy [opinion] 24 Nov 2009 12:15 GMT
    ... too many to mention: Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, Maurice Bishop of Grenada, Salvador Allende ... liberator of Latin America, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Samora Moises Machel of Mozambique, Gamal Abdel ... in a plane downing by apartheid South Africa's snipers in October 1986 for his role ...

  • What Is the African Union? 24 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT
    ... By Kim Sue-young Staff Reporter The African Union (AU), established on July 9, 2002, is ... Members of the AU are: Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African ...

  • BioFuel Africa begins commercial jatropha production 24 Nov 2009 10:31 GMT
    ... Biofuel Africa Ltd. announced it is the first in West Africa to commercialize jatropha oil. The Ghanaian corporation that is wholly owned by Norwegian-based Solar Harvest AS has 1,630 acres in ...

  • Iran, Gambia vow closer ties 24 Nov 2009 10:26 GMT
    ... Banjul - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday vowed closer co-operation with Gambia at the end of a 24-hour visit to the west African nation and stressed the country's identical views on world issues. "We will continue to further ...


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