A proposed rail link between Ouagadougou and Pô in Burkina Faso and Kumasi and Boankra in Ghana, has been discussed with Ghanaian officials, and feasibility studies are being undertaken to explore this possibility, which would provide rail access to the inland port of Bonakra.

A territorial dispute with Mali was mediated by Ghana and Nigeria, which has led to lessening of tensions between the two nations.

This has led to a high rate of poverty in Ghana, estimated at 27 % of the population in 2011, and an increase in crime, with Ghana jumping from 42nd position in 2011 to 50th position in the 2012 Global Peace Index.

The economy of Ghana, Africa, has a diverse and rich resource base, and as such, has one of the highest GDP per capita in Africa.

The country has, since July 2007, embarked on a currency re-denomination exercise, from Cedi (¢) to the new currency, the Ghana Cedi ( GH ¢).

Ghana has embarked upon an aggressive media campaign to educate the public about what re-denomination entails.

Ghana gets 97 % of its energy from damming lake Volta and exports much of this to neighboring countries, however organisations such as the Ghana Nuclear Society have advocated the introduction of nuclear power into Ghana and indeed the country now has an atomic energy commission.

The financial services in Ghana has seen a lot of reforms in the past years.

Ghana through the Banking ( Amendment ) Act 2007 has include the awarding of General Banking license to qualified Banks and this allows Offshore Banks to operate in the country.

Barclays Bank ( Ghana ) limited has become the first Bank in Ghana to be awarded the General Banking license in the Country.

It has therefore become possible for non – resident individuals and foreign companies to open offshore Bank Accounts in Ghana.

The railway system in Ghana has historically been confined to the plains south of the barrier range on mountains north of the city of Kumasi.

Ghana has twelve airports, six with hard surfaced runways.

With around 7, 000 personnel serving in the Ghanian military, Ghana has the tenth lowest ratio of active troops per thousand citizens in the world, standing at 0. 6.

Since 1990 ECOWAS has been engaged in a peacekeeping mission in Liberia to which Ghana has contributed a large contingent of troops.

Ghana has participated in other international peacekeeping efforts as well, sending soldiers to operations of the United Nations ( UN ) in Cambodia in 1992-93 and Rwanda in 1993-94.

Russia has an embassy in Accra, and Ghana has an embassy in Moscow.

Last month in Ghana an American missionary discovered when he came to pay his hotel bill that the usual rate had been doubled.

The name is derived from the Ga language of coastal Ghana, translated as " the sickness the baby gets when the new baby comes ", and reflecting the development of the condition in an older child who has been weaned from the breast when a younger sibling comes.

Ghana Nigerian relations have been both bitter and sweet.

Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and theorist of African socialism on a soviet postage stampAfrican socialism has been and continues to be a major ideology around the continent.

The name Guinea is usually said to have been a corrupt form of the name Ghana, picked up by the Portuguese in the Maghrib.

III, 822 ) points to Guinea having been a corrupt form of Jenne year old city in central Mali on Niger river, less famous than Ghana but nevertheless for many centuries famed in the Maghrib as a great market and a seat of learning.

In addition to similar forms of the Dozens found in Nigeria and Ghana, Bantu and Kisii boys have been observed dueling verbally by attacking each other's mothers.

Over 8, 000 school uniforms have been distributed by the government to needy students in the communities from the Tarkwa Nsuaem municipality, one of the mining districts in Ghana, which is severely affected by poverty.

Tapioca appears to have been eaten in Nigeria and Ghana since pre-colonial times.

Reports say around 800 had been recruited from Niger, Mali, Algeria, Ghana and Burkina Faso.

PARAMs have also been sold to Tanzania, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Ghana, Myanmar, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

Ghanaian music: Ghana is best known for the highlife style of music, which has been popular throughout the 20th century.

This is especially true in West African sahel, where royal courts have been in existence since the 9th century Takrur and Ghana empires.

Three different trophies have been awarded during the tournament's history, with Ghana and Cameroon winning the first two versions to keep after each of them won a tournament three times.

A case of congenital malaria due to both P. falciparum and P. malariae has been reported in a child born to a woman from Ghana, a malaria endemic area, despite the mother having emigrated to Austria eighteen months before and never having returned.

Antibodies to henipaviruses have also been found in fruit bats in Madagascar ( Pteropus rufus, Eidolon dupreanum ) and Ghana ( Eidolon helvum ) indicating a wide geographic distribution of the viruses.

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" It is within this context that in Africa in general and in West Africa in particular, a good neighbor policy has been pursued, which has seen Ghana under President Kufuor brokering peace in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d ' lvoire and Guinea-Bissau among other African states.

John Agyekum Kufour has been chosen together with Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva to jointly receive the 2011 World Food Prize for their personal commitment and visionary leadership while serving as the presidents of Ghana and of Brazil, respectively, in creating and implementing government policies to alleviate hunger and poverty in their countries.

Since his retirement in 1998 Sir Ketumile Masire has been involved in numerous diplomatic initiatives in a number of African countries, including Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana and Swaziland.

Burgher highlife was extremely popular in Ghana, especially after computer-generated dance beats were added to the mix.

In Ghana itself during the 1980s, gospel and reggae became extremely popular.

Ghana is active in the United Nations and many of its specialized agencies, the World Trade Organization, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), the African Union ( AU ) and the Economic Community of West African States.

She became an administrator at the University of Ghana, and was active in the African-American expatriate community.

In 2009 The Hunger Project was active in Africa, in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, and Uganda, in Asia, in Bangladesh and India, and in Latin America, in Mexico, Bolivia ( partnered with Fundación Acción Cultural Loyola ( ACLO )), and Peru ( partnered with Chirapaq ( Center for Indigenous Peoples ' Cultures of Peru )).

Newmont Mining Corporation, based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA, is one of the world's largest producers of gold, with active mines in Nevada, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana and Peru.

He remained active among the Nkrumahist political movement in Ghana.

Movement for Justice in Africa ( MOJA ) is a leftist pan-African political organization that is mostly active in Liberia, with chapters in Ghana and The Gambia.

The Institute, which is based in The Hague, is active in nine developing countries: Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Jamaica, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.