Topic: Ghana
Ghana?s main opposition has nominated Nana Akufo-Addo to contest the 2012 presidential vote after he narrowly lost the last election in the west African nation seen as a democratic beacon.President John Atta-Mills defeated Akufo-Addo, representing the New Patriotic Party, in a January ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDTSonia Sotomayor will tell her story to jury tilted in her favor as high court hearings beginWASHINGTON (AP) Sonia Sotomayor has decided advantages as she begins the most important trial of her long legal career, ...
Only small crowds greet Obama in Ghana in absence of outdoor events, heavy securityThe lucky ones saw him waving from behind the bulletproof glass of his passing vehicle for a few fleeting seconds. The others, like the rest of the world, just ...
Thousands of people poured onto the streets of the capital of Ghana on Saturday as US President Barack Obama launched into his first official trip into the heart of Africa to make a call for good governance.Huge crowds lined the streets of ...
US President Barack Obama arrived in Ghana on Friday on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office.He was welcomed at Kotoka international airport in the oceanside capital Accra by Ghana's President John Atta-Mills to traditional Ashante drumming, chanting and dancing.Obama ...
President Barack Obama was due in Ghana late Friday for a one-day visit that has made many others in Africa jealous and cast a spotlight on issues that some governments would rather keep quiet.The Nation daily in Kenya said that the black ...
For Obama, Africa still on back-burner, no special treatmentNever mind that Barack Obama has never set foot in Ghana before. After arriving in Accra late Friday, Obama holds talks Saturday with Ghana President John Atta Mills, makes a speech to parliament, then ...
When Bill Clinton became the first US President to step on African soil in 1998, he chose the land of my ancestry, the nation many call the Switzerland of West Africa, Ghana. President Clinton began his opening address to the people of ...
Barack Obama, the first African-American US president, will visit Ghana in July, on his first official trip dedicated to the continent, the White House said Saturday.Obama, whose late father was from Kenya, will visit Ghana between July 10 and 11, after previously ...
ACCRA (Reuters) - Barack Obama will visit Africa for the first time since being sworn in as the first black U.S. president when he travels to Ghana in July, a trip many Africans hope will herald powerful help for their poor continent.Ghanaians ...
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