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In Africa, Bush touts aid efforts,
basks in popularity
Mr. Bush has been generally well-received so far on his
five-country trip to Africa.
By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science
Monitor
from the February 19, 2008 edition
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Kwesi Amukwah, who sells
Ghanaian soccer shirts, has nothing but praise for President
Bush, if only because the world's most powerful leader will
pay his western African nation a visit Wednesday. "You look
at a small country like Ghana," says Mr. Amukwah, "and he
still thinks of us."
His colleague Yaw Asare, adds admiringly, "I like Bush
because he is a bold man, when he makes up his mind he just
does it." And with this an argument breaks out. Mr. Asare
praises Bush's toughness in dealing with Islamist
terrorists; Amukwah criticizes the war in Iraq with equal
vehemence. ....
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500 million dollars
development assistance commitment from UK government to
Ghana
Accra, Feb. 22, Ghanadot/GNA -
Ghana for the next three years would receive 500 million
dollars in development assistance from the United
Kingdom (UK), Mr Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State
for International Development, announced in Accra on
Friday.......More
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AU
Chairman Kufuor receives kudos from Brown and Barroso
Accra, Feb. 22, Ghanadot/GNA - The British Prime
Minister, Gordon Brown and the European Commission
President, José Manuel Barroso have paid tribute to
President John Agyekum Kufuor for his achievements as
Chairman of the African Union... ...More |
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LEAP programme only meant as a springboard to
self-sufficiency
Sunyani (B/A), Feb. 21, Ghanadot/GNA – The Livelihood
Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) intervention is meant to
empower a targeted population and not to provide for their
basic needs, Mr Stephen Adongo, Director of Child Rights,
Department of Social Welfare, said in Sunyani on Friday.......More |
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Man charged in President's accident
was behaving abnormally - Witness
Accra, Feb. 22 Ghanadot/GNA – Dr.
Nana Okine Brako, a Medical Officer in-charge of the clinic
at the Bureau of National Investigations, on Friday told an
Accra Fast Track High Court that Thomas Osei, the man who
drove into the President’s car, looked nervous and was
acting abnormally when he observed him.......More |
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