Those troops were provided by Austria, Denmark, Fiji, Ghana and Nepal.

In 2005 started the Ghana School Feeding Programme, in which a free hot meal per day was provided in public schools and kindergartens in the poorest area.

Under the terms of a war contingency plan, a brigade each was provided from the Gold Coast ( Ghana ) and from Nigeria for service in Kenya.

The power generated has provided for primary interests within Ghana, while also supplying power to the neighboring countries of Togo and Benin.

Canada, Ghana, and the Netherlands provided consistent support for the UN mission under the command of Dallaire, although the UN Security Council did not give it an appropriate mandate to intervene.

A World Bank comparison of sectoral growth in Côte d ' Ivoire, Ghana and Zimbabwe since 1965 provided evidence against the existence of a basic dual economy model.

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

* 1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of state.

Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana.

* 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British

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.

Samoa thus become the first territory in nearly 40 years to change which side of the road is driven on, the most recent to change being Nigeria, Ghana and Yemen.

The earliest of these empires is that of Ghana, probably founded in the first millennium by Soninke and whose animists populations subsisted by agriculture and trade across the Sahara, including gold, salt and cloth.

1956 saw Sudan, Morocco, and Tunisia become independent, and the next year Ghana became the first sub-saharan African nation to gain independence.

Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence

* February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town ( although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – now Ghana – on January 10 ).

** Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President.

* Tetteh Quarshie first brings cocoa to Ghana from Equatorial Guinea.

* The first contact occurs between Europeans and the Fante nation of the Gold Coast, when a party of Portuguese land and meet with the King of Elmina ( see also History of Ghana ).

A French mission was established in 1687 at Assinie, near the Gold Coast ( now Ghana ) border, and it became the first European outpost in that area.

Jeffreys ' DNA method, which is often called DNA fingerprinting, was first put to use when he was asked to help in a disputed immigration case to confirm the identity of a British boy whose family was originally from Ghana.

These were first identified in an outbreak in Ghana in 1969, and have spread worldwide since then, causing several epidemics.

In 1957, when the leaders of the former British colony of the Gold Coast sought an appropriate name for their newly independent state — the first black African nation to gain its independence from colonial rule — they named their new country after ancient Ghana.

* 1752-Thomas Thompson, first Anglican missionary to Africa, arrives in the Gold Coast ( now Ghana )

Respectively on March 24 and March 27, 2007, Brazil bounced back from their first defeat under Dunga with wins in friendly matches against Chile ( 4 – 0 ) and Ghana ( 1 – 0 ) in Sweden.

Yaa Asantewaa's dream for an Asante free of British rule was realized on 6 March 1957, when the Asante protectorate gained independence as part of Ghana, the first African nation to achieve this feat.

The Ghana Armed Forces are the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Ensign of the Ghana Air Force

The Ghana Air Force is headquartered in Burma camp Accra, and operates from bases in Accra ( main transport base ), Tamale ( combat and training base ), Takoradi ( training base ), and Kumasi ( support base ).

* Ghana Air Force

The Ghana Air Force ( GAF ) is the air force of the African nation of Ghana.

In 1960 Royal Air Force personnel took up the task of training the newly established Ghana Air Force and in 1961 they were joined by a small group of Royal Canadian Air Force personnel.

The Ghana Air Force was the first sub-Saharan air force, and for a time the largest.

The Ghana Air Force owns 38 aircraft, including two combat jets and 11 helicopters.

* Michael Otu ( 1925 – 2006 ), senior commander in the Ghana Air Force

The rank of group captain is also used in a number of the air forces in the Commonwealth, including the Bangladesh Air Force, Ghana Air Force, Indian Air Force ( IAF ), Nigerian Air Force, Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ), Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) and the Sri Lankan Air Force.

Apart from the RAF, the rank of Flight Sergeant is also used by many Commonwealth air forces, including the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the Sri Lankan Air Force, the Ghana Air Force, the Bangladesh Air Force, the Sri Lanka Air Force, the South African Air Force and the Air Force of Zimbabwe.

Economic conditions deteriorated further in early 1983 when Nigeria expelled an estimated 1 million Ghanaians who had to be absorbed by Ghana.

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.

James Victor Gbeho ( born January 12, 1935, in Keta, Ghana ) is a prominent Ghanaian lawyer and diplomat who has been President of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) Commission since 2010, to which position he was unanimously elected at the 37th Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the 15 Member States.

* Killick, T. ( 1978 ), Development Economics in Action: Economic Policies in Ghana, London: Heinemann, 392 pages

* K. Y. Amoako-Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, ( Ghana )

Regional and wider pressure led to the convening of a conference in Accra by the then Chair of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), John Kufuor of Ghana, on June 4, 2003.