Ghana

This week sees the opening of BusyInternet’s first technology development centre in Accra. The company’s founder Mark Davies has ambitious plans to open a network of technology development centres based upon the same business model across the continent. He has found a young and energetic management team and attracted investors into the project. The Accra opening will be the test case. Russell Southwood describes how the company wants to build something more than just "bricks and mortar".

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The World Food Programme (WFP) is to provide 482,000 Ghanaians with food aid through 2005 to support efforts to reduce poverty in Ghana, the UN agency announced on Wednesday.

The password is " Zero Tolerance for Corruption" and suddenly everyone is telling everyone how to be corrigible. The opposition NDC who are coming out as if they have never faulted in life before head the crusade. Some living angels. Of late, they have been coming out loudly on moral issues.

Ghana is developing plans to produce generic versions of antiretroviral drugs, Reuters reports.

An assessment of Ghana's Poverty Reduction Strategy process (GPRS) suggests there is much potential for formulating, in a participatory manner, an effective poverty reduction strategy. However, there is no guarantee that this will be realised.

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