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  • Envoy Arrundell is a Nigerian patriot 30 Nov 2009 00:34 GMT
    ... the government she represents is giving away Nigeria to foreigners in the name of deregulation ... sounded a bit like Barack Obama in Ghana, who told African leaders that foreigners could no longer be ...

  • Nigerian President's Health Fueling Political Tensions 29 Nov 2009 21:31 GMT
    ... Nigerian officials say President Umaru Yar'Adua is responding well ... poor health creates a constitutional challenge for Africa's most populous nation. A presidential spokesman says ... see as another potential political problem. If incapacitated, President Yar'Adua, a Muslim from the north, ...

  • Out of Africa: The Tobacco War's New Battleground 24 Nov 2009 18:51 GMT
    ... Africa is already beleaguered by infectious diseases, such ... have passed strong national smoke-free laws, and Nigeria's capital, Abuja, has a local ordinance in ... tobacco-related deaths annually, the range of long-term disability that tobacco smoke exposure can induce also ...

  • National Health Insurance Scheme: How are Persons with Disabilities Benefiting? 24 Nov 2009 01:53 GMT
    ... necessarily represent or reflect the views of Modernghana.com." The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), established ... basic human needs, including their nutritional requirements. Disability and poverty are said to be intertwined, ... Tinanaami@yahoo.com Development / Accra / Ghana / Africa / ...

  • 90% of Ghanaian children in 'orphanages' still have parents 25 Nov 2009 09:53 GMT
    ... that figure is at 94% and in Ghana 90%. Orphanages with very little supervision has become a ... rising dramatically in recent years, particularly in Africa and Asia. For example, there are 11 ... there are 11 times more orphanages in Liberia now than 20 years ago. This in ...

  • Let's Go for it Boys! ' Ghana to Win World Cup 27 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... 2009 Let’s Go for it Boys! – Ghana to Win World Cup In the history of ... shackles of colonialism, which has so often, impaired our development as a nation and as ... We are four times winners of the African Cup of Nations, two times winners of ...

  • African Albinos murdered for body parts 29 Nov 2009 16:03 GMT
    ... New genocide occurring in Africa is being ignored by the US, UN: Killing Albinos ... and stranded in Tanzanian schools for the disabled or in emergency shelters established by the ... doctors and big-money traders. Salif Keita, the Malian albino singer and human rights activist said that ...

  • Feature: Kufuor's Legacy of development, second to none 28 Nov 2009 16:54 GMT
    ... Fellow Ghanaians, permit me to use this opportunity to ... earned his place in the annals of African politics would be a very gross understatement. Readers ... the cocoa processing plant in Kumasi, the West African Gas Pipe Line as well as the ...

  • Red Cross and Red Crescent honours remarkable humanitarians 23 Nov 2009 17:50 GMT
    ... are: Dr Muctarr Amadu Sheriff Jalloh of Sierra Leone - a specialist in paediatrics, who served ... time the entire Movement has met in Africa. During the ceremony, the Council also recognized ... of programmes for women, youths and the disabled. She passed away in June 2009. The ...

  • Passion for books brought new leaf to Nichols' life 29 Nov 2009 02:51 GMT
    ... has 14 godchildren in two families — the Broyles, who are missionaries on the Ivory coast of West Africa, have four children, and the Mach family, who serve has missionaries in San Paulo, ...

  • Finding a cure 25 Nov 2009 19:55 GMT
    ... Probity Medical Transcription Inc., will move to Niger in January, to become executive director of ... In January, Lehman will move to the West African country of Niger to become executive director of ...

  • Women's Poverty is Our Greatest Concern -President Jammeh 23 Nov 2009 22:01 GMT
    ... The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr ... Jammeh. has reiterated the need to empower African women saying the greatest scourge facing the ... and girls, the able and those with disabilities all work as partners to ensure that ...

  • Food aid that gets you two for the price of one 23 Nov 2009 08:52 GMT
    ... MSF study said about 40 percent of nutrition funding flows were allocated to sub-Saharan Africa, where the main recipient countries included Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Niger, Kenya, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo; almost 18 percent of the funds ...

  • At Least Four Out of Five Children in 'Orphanages' Still Have Parents, Save the Children Reveals 24 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... that figure is at 94% and in Ghana 90%. This means that millions of children are unnecessarily ... rising dramatically in recent years, particularly in Africa and Asia. For example, there are 11 ... there are 11 times more orphanages in Liberia now than 20 years ago. This in ...

  • At Least Four Out of Five Children in 'Orphanages' Still Have Parents, Save the Children 24 Nov 2009 05:33 GMT
    ... that figure is at 94% and in Ghana 90%. This means that millions of children are unnecessarily ... rising dramatically in recent years, particularly in Africa and Asia. For example, there are 11 ... there are 11 times more orphanages in Liberia now than 20 years ago. This in ...


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