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Accra, located on the Gulf of Guinea, is the capital
of Ghana.
(AHD, 1971, p.9)
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992 Ghana
captured its chief trading rival, the Berber town of Audoghast.
(Enc. of Africa, 1976, p.172)
c1000-1100 Tenkaminen reigned as Caliph of Ghana. He
exported gold, ivory and salt and kept his wealth in gold. He put glass
windows into his palace in Kumbi and kept a menagerie of elephants and
giraffes.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R6)
1068AD Historian al-Bakri wrote his "Book of the
Roads and Kingdoms." He described Ghana in the Western Sudan from
information given him by merchants and others.
(ATC, p.113) (Enc. of Africa, 1976, p.171)
1076AD The Al Moravids, a group of Muslim warriors
who lived in the Sahara, set out to conquer Ghana. They captured Koumbi
in this year but gave it back up to the Soninke in 1087. The Muslim
religious reform Almoravid movement under Abu Bakr recaptured Audoghast
and then all of Ghana.
(ATC, p.117) (Enc. of Africa, 1976, p.172)
1087 The Soninke of Ghana
recapture their capital, Koumbi, from the Al Moravids. They try to
re-establish their empire but a number of their states had adopted
Islam and others broke away to form separate kingdoms.
(ATC, p.117)
1203 King Sumanguru, ruler of a
break-away Ghanaian kingdom, overthrew the Soninke king and took over
Koumbi. At about the same time a new kingdom to the east called Mali
and ruled by Mandinke, was gaining power.
(ATC, p.113)
1471 The Portuguese arrived in
Ghana as intermediaries, bringing slaves and other goods from Senegal
and Benin in order to sell them to the Asante and other local people.
(Econ, 2/24/07, p.73)
1482 Elmina Castle in Ghana was
built by Portuguese traders. It later became a slave holding castle.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, p.T10)
1637 The Dutch attacked and
captured Elmina (Ghana), which up to that point was the centre of
Portuguese activity in West Africa.
(www.moxon.net/ghana/cape_coast.html)
1650 The King of the Fetu (Ghana)
granted permission to an English sea-captain to build on the cape, and
in the same year he also granted the same permission to Henry Caerlof,
a Swiss man who had previously worked for the Dutch and who sailed
under the Swedish flag.
(www.moxon.net/ghana/cape_coast.html)
1655 By this time a house had been
built on Ghana’s cape, and over the coming years it was enlarged using
slave labor into Carolusburg Fort, named after the then Swedish king.
This fort was captured and enlarged by the Danish in 1657, and after a
few more shuffles of power the English got their hands on it 1664. In
2006 William St. Clair authored “The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast
Castle and the British Slave Trade.
(www.moxon.net/ghana/cape_coast.html)
1670 Ashanti, a West African
chiefdom (later part of Ghana), prospered from trade of cola nuts, gold
and slaves.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R49)
1670-1712 Osei Tutu, ruler of the Ashanti Empire in
what later became Ghana. He amassed a fortune by supplying slaves to
British and Dutch traders in exchange for firearms.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R8)
1833 The slave trade in Ghana
ended.
(AP, 7/11/09)
1836 A Dutch regiment entered the
kingdom of the Ashanti tribe. Holland had taken this land as a colony
to mine gold and sell slaves. Slavery was outlawed but African men were
enlisted as troops in a form of indentured servitude. The Ashanti king
sent his son and nephew, Kwasi and Kwame Boachi, to Holland for a
European education in exchange for providing troops. In 2001 Arthur
Japin authored the novel “The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi.”
(SSFC, 1/21/01, BR p.5)
1838 In Ghana Asante King Nana
Badu Bonsu II had his head cut off by Maj. Gen. Jan Verveer in
retaliation for Bonsu's killing of two Dutch emissaries, whose heads
were then displayed as trophies. In 2008 Dutch author Arthur Japin
discovered Bonsu’s head in a jar of formaldehyde at Leiden Univ.
Medical Center. In 2009 the Dutch government returned the head of
Bonsu’s descendants.
(SFC, 3/21/09, p.A2)(SFC, 7/24/09, p.A2)
1872 Zey, king of the Asante
(Ghana), wrote to the British monarch asking for the slave trade to be
renewed.
(Econ, 2/24/07, p.73)
1909 Sep 9, Kwame Nkrumah,
communist and premier of the Gold Coast and president of Ghana
(1960-66), was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1947 Jun 22, Jerry Rawlings was
born.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A20)
1951 Feb 11, Kwame Nkrumah won the
1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana).
(MC, 2/11/02)
1954 Jun 15, The Convention
People’s Party, led by Kwame Nkrumah, won the Gold Coast elections
(later part of Ghana).
(HT, 6/15/00)
1954 Elizabeth Dewey Johns Drake
(1915-1996) and her husband St. Clair Drake received a Ford Foundation
grant to study the impact of western media in the Gold Coast now called
Ghana.
(SFC, 8/10/96, p.A20)
1957 Mar 6, The former British
African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent
state of Ghana. Ghana, led by Kwame Nkrumah, gained independence from
Britain. US VP Nixon and Martin Luther King attended the independence
ceremony.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1)(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.15)(SSFC,
2/11/07, p.C1)
1957 Oct 10, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of
Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del.,
restaurant.
(AP, 10/10/97)
1958 Kwame Nkrumah, head of Ghana,
had a law passed allowing him to jail anyone suspected of subversive
intentions.
(WSJ, 8/31/05, p.D10)
1960 Jul 1, Ghana became an
independent republic within the British Commonwealth and Kwama N.
Nkrumah became the 1st president.
(PC, 1992, p.973)
1961 Mar 1, President Kennedy
established the Peace Corps. The first volunteers were sent to Ghana.
(TMC, 1994, p.1961)(SFC, 8/7/96, p.A15)(AP,
Internet, 3/1/98) (SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13)
1961 John Wilson (d.1999 at 80)
published "Ghana's Handicapped Citizens." Wilson, himself blind, and
his wife Jean lived in Ghana in 1950 and began treating people who were
blinded from an infection, ocular onchocerciasis, caused by a buffalo
gnat.
(SFC, 12/7/99, p.B4)
1961 W.E.B. Du Bois, Black
American writer and reformer, renounced his American citizenship and
spent his last remaining years in the West African country of Ghana.
Born in Massachusetts on February 23, 1868, Du Bois earned three
degrees at Harvard, including a Ph.D., and taught history at Atlanta
University from 1896-1910. He took a militant position on race
relations, founded the Niagara Movement, edited the Crises magazine,
was a longtime official in the NAACP and author of numerous important
works. Du Bois died in Accra, Ghana, August 27, 1963.
(HNQ, 5/11/99)
1964 In Ghana the Akosombo Dam was
built on the Volta River. By 1966 extensive forests and the homes of
80,000 people were flooded to create Lake Volta. In 2006 Wayne Dunn
negotiated a 2-year pilot agreement the government to explore the lake
and a 15-year follow-up to harvest timber across 875,000 underwater
acres.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, p.T10)(WSJ, 1/21/07, p.A1)
1966 Feb 24, A military coup
overthrew Ghana’s Pres. Kwame Nkrumah. He fled to Guinea.
(http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/19/150104.php)
1970 Jul 27, Otumfuo Nana Opoku
Ware II, the king of the Ashanti people and born as Matthew John Kwaku
Adusei-Poku, ascended to the Golden Stool to become the 18th King of
Ashanti.
(SFC, 3/1/99, p.A19)
1970 The population of Accra, capital of
Ghana, was about 338,000.
(AHD, 1971, p.9)
1972 Apr 27, Kwame Nkrumah (62),
former president of Ghana, died in Romania of cancer.
(http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/19/150104.php)
1972 Jul 9, The body Kwame Nkrumah
(1909-1972), former head of Ghana (1952-1966), was returned to Nkroful,
Ghana, for burial.
(http://tinyurl.com/5e95hx)
1974 Shirley Temple was appointed
US ambassador to Ghana. She served to 1976.
(SFC, 1/26/06, p.E3)
1975 May 25, ECOWAS Treaty1 was
signed. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was
formed in Nigeria with 15 members that included: Benin, Burkina Faso,
Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
(www.sec.ecowas.int/sitecedeao/english/achievements.htm)
1978 Jul 5, In Ghana Gen’l.
Acheampong resigned as head of state. He was succeeded by Lt.-Col. Fred
W.K. Akuffo.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)
1979 May 15, In Ghana J.J.
Rawlings (b.1947) led an unsuccessful coup d'état that resulted
in his arrest, imprisonment, and a death sentence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rawlings)
1979 Jun 4, In Ghana friends of
J.J. Rawlings (b.1947), led by Major Boakye Djan, overthrew the
military government of General Fred Akuffo in a bloody coup.
(SFC, 12/6/96,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rawlings)
1979 Sep 24, Hilla Limann
1934-1998) was elected president of Ghana. She served until 1981.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilla_Limann)
1981 Dec 31, Lt. Jerry Rawlings, a
young fighter pilot toppled Pres. Hilla Limann.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A22)
1982 The Rawlings Marxist regime
imposed stringent economic controls and market women who violated price
controls were stripped, whipped, their heads shaven and wares
confiscated.
(WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18)
1985 American CIA clerk in Ghana
Sharon Scranage pleaded guilty to disclosing the names of US agents to
her Ghanaian boyfriend. She was prosecuted under a 1982 federal law
called the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A17)(LAT, 7/15/05)
1992 A ban on political parties
was lifted and former president Hilla Limann formed the People’s
National Convention Party. Limann ran for the presidency but finished a
distant 3rd.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A22)
1992 J.J. Rawlings was elected
with 59% of the vote in disputed elections.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1)(SFC, 12/9/96, p.A18)
1993 The World Bank pumped $4
billion into Ghana and called it an “African economic star.”
(WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18)
1995 May 5, Over 100,000 Ghanaians
demonstrated in the streets of Accra for the repeal of an 18%
value-added tax. 4 people were killed from gunfire by government hired
thugs.
(WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18)
1995 George B.N. Ayittey is a
native of Ghana and an associate professor of economics at the American
Univ. in Washington. He is also the president of the Free Africa
Foundation.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-16)
1996 Jul, The per capita income
was $410.
(WSJ, 7/18/96, p.A10)
1996 Dec 8, Jerry Rawlings
defeated John Kufuor and his Great Alliance Party in elections 57% to
40%.
(WSJ, 12/12/96, p.A13)
1996 Dec 13, The UN Security
Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana as the next Secretary-General.
(SFC, 12/14/96, p.A1)
1996 Dec 17, Kofi Annan of Ghana
was elected by acclamation as the 7th Secretary-General of the UN. His
5-year term will start Jan 1.
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.C2)(AP, 12/17/97)
1996 President Jerry Rawlings
brokered a string of cease-fires in Liberia only to see all 13 fall
apart.
(SFC, 5/8/96, p.A-18)
1997 Nov, It was reported that the
Pioneer Food Cannery Ltd., in Tema canned 40,000 tons of raw skipjack
and yellowtail tuna a year. The operation was owned by Star-Kist Foods
Inc., a unit of H.J. Heinz. This provided Ghana with $60 million in
exports.
(WSJ, 11/10/97, p.A17)
1998 Jan 23, Former Pres. Hilla
Limann (64) died in Accra.
(SFEC, 1/25/98, p.A22)
1998 Mar 23, Pres. Clinton was
scheduled to visit Ghana, the first nation where Peace Corps volunteers
were sent.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13)
1998 Nov 11, It was reported that
Pfizer and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation initiated a $66 million
effort to attack trachoma, a disease of the eye caused by chlamydia. A
one-gram dose of zithromax given once a year would treat the disease.
Focus was to be on Ghana, Mali, Morocco, Tanzania and Vietnam.
(SFC, 11/11/98, p.D6)
1998 Ghana outlawed the Trokosi
(wife of the gods) practice, but failed to enforce the ban. The system
allowed young women to be given up to priests at shrines for good luck.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A12)
1998 Juliana Dogbadzi (24) escaped
from Trokosi, servitude under a fetish priest, in which she had served
for 17 years. She began a speaking campaign against the system.
(SFEC, 9/24/00, Par p.7)
1998 Divine Chocolate was founded
in Britain. The chocolate was made in Germany and in 2007 45% of shares
were owned by Kuapa Kokoo, Ghana’s largest cocoa bean cooperative.
(Econ, 4/7/07, p.65)
1999 Feb 25, Otumfuo Nana Opoku
Ware II, the king of the Ashanti people, died at the palace in Kumasi.
The Asantehene was born Matthew John Kwaku Adusei-Poku and ascended to
the Golden Stool to become the 18th King of Ashanti in 1970.
(SFC, 3/1/99, p.A19)
2000 Sep 12, It was reported that
Waldron’s red colobus, a loud-mouthed, red-cheeked monkey from Ghana
and the Ivory Coast, was last seen in the 1970s and was believed
extinct.
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.A10)
2000 Dec 7, Presidential elections
were held and 10 people died in violence. Representatives for the
200-seat parliament were also chosen. Opposition candidate John Agyekum
Kuffuor led Vice Pres. John Atta Mills 48-44% in the 1st round of
elections. A runoff vote was planned within 3 weeks.
(SFC, 12/7/00, p.C18)(SFC, 12/11/00, p.F8)(WSJ,
12/11/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18)
2000 Dec 28, Runoff elections were
held with sporadic violence. John Agyekum Kuffour won with 56.7% of the
vote over John Atta Mills.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.B3)(SFC, 12/31/00, p.B9)
2000 The pilot TV show of “Things
We Do for Love” premiered and mirrored real-life situations among young
people in Ghana.
(SFC, 5/20/02, p.A3)
2001 Jan 4, It was alleged that
some 40% of World Bank loans and Western aid was squandered or stolen
under the 19-year Marxist regime of Jerry Rawlings.
(WSJ, 1/04/00, p.A18)
2001 Jan 7, John Kufuor (b.1938)
became president of Ghana.
(Econ, 11/29/08,
p.51)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kufuor)
2001 May 9, In Ghana a stampede at
a soccer match in Accra killed 126 people. Police had use of tear gas
to quell fans which caused panic and the stampede.
(WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/10/01, p.A16)(AP, 5/9/02)
2001 Manu Herbstein (b.1936), a
South African resident of Ghana, authored “Ama: A Story of the Atlantic
Slave Trade”
(www.nathanielturner.com/amastoryofatlanticslavetrade.htm)
2002 Aug 1, In Ghana the
government raised the cost of electricity by 60%.
(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.D6)
2003 Apr 9, A large shipment of
African rodents, including Gambian rats, dormice and sun squirrels,
arrived in Dallas aboard a commercial flight from Ghana. An "unusually
large number of sick and dead animals." Some of the larger animals had
consumed the smaller ones. African rodents imported as pets caused a
monkeypox outbreak in the Midwest that sickened dozens of adults and
children with a virus related to smallpox.
(AP, 11/29/06)
2003 Aug 18, In Accra, Ghana,
Liberia's government and rebels signed a peace accord to end 14 years
of vicious war with plans for elections in 2 years.
(AP, 8/19/03)
2004 Jan 10, In Ghana the United
Nations launched a yearlong commemoration of the anti-slavery movement.
The International Year for the Commemoration of the Struggle Against
Slavery and its Abolition coincides with the 200-year anniversary of
Haiti, the first independent black state in the Western Hemisphere.
(AP, 1/11/04)
2004 Apr 19, The annual
environmental Goldman Prizes were awarded in SF. Winners included
Rudolf N. Amenga-Etego of Ghana for his work in suspending a water
privatization project.
(SFC, 4/19/04, p.B5)
2005 Mar 25, In Ghana sparks from
a welder's torch ignited a raging fire on MV Polaris, a Greek tanker
moored in Tema, killing three people and leaving 12 others feared dead.
(AP, 3/25/05)
2005 Nov 12, Africa Union leaders
from Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Senegal met in
Abuja for a 2-day summit titled: "Africa and the challenges of the
global order: Desirability of union government," with the leaders
discussing the broad principles of integration.
(AFP, 11/12/05)
2005 Mark Davies, a British dotcom
tycoon, went to Ghana and started TradeNet, a software company that
later developed a simple sort of eBay for agricultural products.
(Econ, 1/27/07, p.48)
2006 Jan 17, In Ghana first lady
Laura Bush announced a US-backed program to provide 15 million
textbooks for students in sub-Saharan Africa where more than one-third
of primary school aged children are not enrolled in school.
(AP, 1/17/06)
2006 Mar 29, The first total
eclipse in years plunged Ghana into daytime darkness, a solar show
sweeping northeast from Brazil to Mongolia.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Apr 8, In Ghana an overloaded
motorboat carrying about 150 passengers on Lake Volta, and 110 people
are missing and feared dead. Only 40 people are known to have survived
the sinking.
(AP, 4/10/06)
2006 Jun 18, China's PM Wen Jiabao
went to Ghana, where he signed an agreement to lend the small West
African nation about $66 million to fund a number of projects. China
has leapfrogged Ghana's traditional trading partners India and Britain
to become the West African nation's biggest foreign investor.
(AFP, 6/17/06)(AP, 6/19/06)
2006 Jun 22, The US was eliminated
from soccer’s World Cup by Ghana 2-1.
(WSJ, 6/23/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 12, The US government
announced a five-year, 547-million-dollar aid package to Ghana to help
the African nation develop agriculture and alleviate poverty.
(AFP, 7/12/06)
2006 Sep 29, The World Diamond
Council suggested that all Ghanaian rough-diamond exports be suspended
to ensure that Ivorian diamonds were not being illegally exported.
Rebel-controlled mines in Ivory Coast produced diamonds worth up to $23
million that were being smuggled to Mali and Ghana, violating UN
sanctions and funding the rebel war effort.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.53)
2006 Dec, Ghana floated a 5-year
bond issue for the first time. It was oversubscribed.
(Econ, 10/11/08, p.36)
2006 The population of Ghana was
about 22 million.
(Econ, 6/24/06, p.52)
2007 Jan 29, The African Union
chose Ghana to head the 53-member bloc, turning aside Sudan's bid for
the second year in a row because of the worsening bloodshed in Darfur.
(AP, 1/29/07)
2007 Feb, Ghana’s health budget
per person was about $31 per year as calculated by the World Health
Organization (WHO). Some 45% of the people lived on less than $1 per
day, 79% on less than $2 per day, yet funerals tended to cost between
$2,000 and $3,500.
(Econ, 2/24/07, p.22)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.49)
2007 Mar 6, In Ghana singer Stevie
Wonder introduced pianist Kofi Vordzorgbe (13) to dignitaries
celebrating 50 years of independence from British rule. Kofi was later
brought to San Francisco, Ca., to continue his music studies.
(SFC, 6/6/09, p.E1)
2007 Apr 14, In Sudan unidentified
gunmen killed a Ghanaian military officer in the African Union's
peacekeeping force in the Darfur region and hijacked his car within
yards of the AU mission's headquarters. The dead officer was the ninth
peacekeeper slain this month, raising to 18 the number of AU soldiers
killed since the mission deployed in 2004.
(AP, 4/15/07)
2007 Jun 19, Ghanaians reacted
with a blend of excitement and foreboding to the news of a major oil
find off the coast of their west African nation, some viewing it as a
boon and others fearing it could turn out to be a curse.
(AFP, 6/19/07)
2007 Jun 28, African Union foreign
ministers met in Accra, Ghana, to prepare a summit of heads of state
next week, the focus of which will be the creation of the United States
of Africa.
(AP, 6/29/07)
2007 Jul 1, A 3-day African Union
summit focused on forging a closer federation among the 53 member
states began in the Ghanaian capital Accra.
(AFP, 7/1/07)
2007 Jul 2, In Ghana African Union
leaders gathered behind closed doors for a debate on how to beef up its
continental system of government with Libya's Moamer Kadhafi leading a
push to create a confederation of states.
(AP, 7/2/07)
2007 Jul 2, In Ghana 2 British
girls were stopped with 300,000 pounds (443,000 euros, 610,000 dollars)
worth of cocaine during a joint Ghanaian-British narcotics operation.
They were found guilty on November 21 and were released on July 17,
2008.
(AFP, 7/17/08)
2007 Jul 3, In Ghana African
leaders vowed to speed up the economic and political integration of
their continent to pursue the goal of a United States of Africa, but
they also agreed to study more closely how to achieve it.
(Reuters, 7/4/07)
2007 Jul 4, In Ghana a drive
towards forging a United States of Africa ran out of steam as leaders
filed away from a summit without agreeing on a timeline for creating a
new government for the continent.
(AFP, 7/5/07)
2007 Sep 21, The Red Cross warned
that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18 countries
across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5 million people
and killed at least 270 in Ghana, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda
and other countries.
(AFP, 9/21/07)
2007 Nov 21, Two British teenagers
(16) faced up to three years in jail after a Ghanaian court found them
guilty of smuggling 6 kg (13 lbs) of cocaine. The teenagers, who
pleaded not guilty, had told British TV they were tricked into carrying
the bags by male acquaintances in Ghana and Britain and did not know
their content. In 2008 the 2 girls were sentenced to one year in jail
to include time already served. They were released on July 17, 2008.
(Reuters, 11/21/07)(AP, 1/23/08)(AFP, 7/17/08)
2007 Dec 22, Ghana's Pres. John
Kufuor said that offshore oil reserves discovered in the West African
country's waters total 3 billion barrels.
(AP, 12/22/07)
2008 Jan 1, In Ghana 2 US Navy
sailors, Patrick Mack (22) of Warren, Mich., and Lonnie Davis Jr. (35)
of Riverdale, Ga., were found dead in a hotel room in Accra. They were
stationed aboard the USS Fort McHenry, which is on a 7-month voyage in
the Gulf of Guinea.
(AP, 1/1/08)(AP, 1/3/08)
2008 Feb 10, The Africa Cup of
Nations, a biennial soccer tournament held this year in Ghana, ended
with Egypt’s defeat of Cameroon 1-0.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_African_Cup_of_Nations)
2008 Feb 20, In Ghana President
Bush sought to soothe African fears about American interests on the
continent. He said the US isn’t aiming to make Africa into a base for
greater military power or a proxy battleground with China.
(AP, 2/20/08)
2008 Feb 29, In Ghana 9 Nigerians
were sentenced to 5 years each for faking e-mails and letters,
including one from the Ghanaian president, to dupe a Frenchman out of
$185,000.
(AFP, 3/10/08)
2008 Jul 3, Vodafone Group PLC
said it planned to acquire a 70% stake in Ghana Telecom Co. for $900
million.
(WSJ, 7/5/08, p.B6)
2008 Sep 2, The Third High Level
Forum on Aid Effectiveness ppened in Accra, Ghana, for a 3-day meeting.
It aimed to record how much progress had been maderelative to the Paris
2005 declaration for making aid work better and targets set for 2010.
(Econ, 9/6/08,
p.69)(www.climate-l.org/2008/09/third-high-leve.html)
2008 Oct 19, An Israeli
businessman was kidnapped in Ghana. The kidnappers initially demanded
$500,000 ransom, then lowered it to $300,000.
(AP, 10/24/08)
2008 Nov 17, The Kenya Wildlife
Service (KWS) said a ton of ivory items and 57 suspects were netted in
a four-month operation billed Africa's largest-ever crackdown on
wildlife crime. Operation Baba also seized cheetah, leopard, serval cat
and python skins as well as hippo teeth at several markets, airports
and border crossings in Congo Brazzaville, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and
Zambia.
(AFP, 11/17/08)
2008 Dec 7, Ghanaians voted for a
new president in a tight race between two foreign-educated lawyers
hoping to lead the West African nation into an era of greater
prosperity thanks to offshore oil. Two technocrats were expected to get
the most votes in a filed of 8 seeking to replace incumbent Pres. John
Kufuor. No candidate managed to win a majority and Nana Akufo-Addo and
John Atta Mills were scheduled for a runoff on Dec 28.
(Reuters, 12/7/08)(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A12)(WSJ,
12/11/08, p.A12)
2008 Dec 28, Ghanaians turned out
to choose a successor to outgoing president John Kufuor in the second
round of an election seen as a test of just how stable the west African
nation is. Opposition leader John Atta Mills narrowly led Ghana's
presidential ballot.
(AP, 12/28/08)(AP, 12/29/08)
2009 Jan 2, Ghana's leader
appealed for calm and urged his people to accept the results of a tight
presidential election as voters in a single district cast ballots that
could decide the West African nation's next president. Election results
from all other districts showed opposition leader John Atta Mills ahead
of his ruling party rival Nana Akufo-Addo by only around 23,000 votes
out of more than 9 million cast.
(AP, 1/2/09)
2009 Jan 3, In Ghana opposition
leader John Atta Mills was declared the next president in the closest
electoral race this West African nation has ever seen. The peaceful
ballot secured Ghana's place as a beacon of democracy on a volatile
continent.
(AP, 1/3/09)
2009 Jul 11, In Ghana US Pres.
Obama met with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills. Obama praised and
scolded the continent of his ancestors, asserting forces of tyranny and
corruption must yield if Africa is to achieve its promise.
(AP, 7/11/09)
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