However, this regulation is not enforced, and Ghanaian civilians are able to wear military-style apparel ( such as civilian clothes in a camouflage finish ) without any difficulties from law enforcement.

In addition, Ghanaian law prohibits the photographing of police or military personnel and vehicles while on duty, strategic sites such as Kotoka International Airport when in use, and the seat of the Ghanaian government, Osu Castle.

The presidential election is won by 50 % plus one vote whilst the parliamentary elections is won by simple majority, and, as is predicted by Duverger's law, the voting system has encouraged Ghanaian politics into a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.

Most Ghanaian Muslims are Sunni, following the Maliki version of Islamic law.

Under Ghanaian criminal law, same-sex sexual activity among males is illegal.

There is no legal recognition of same-sex couples under Ghanaian law.

Ghanaian law does not protect persons from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

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16, 527, 148 are Ghanaian passport holders ( i. e. Ghanaian citizenship and Ghanaian passport holders ), while 745, 294 are permanent residents ( i. e. holders of the Ghana Card ), and 307, 978 are foreign workers ( i. e. non-resident ), with an estimated 7, 078, 403 being illegal immigrants mostly from West African countries.

Tourism has become one of Ghana's largest foreign income earners ( ranking third in 1997 ), and the Ghanaian Government has placed great emphasis upon further tourism support and development.

The NRC also imposed the Investment Policy Decree of 1975 — effective on January 1977 — that required 51 % Ghanaian equity participation in most foreign firms, but the government took 40 % in specified industries.

It was reported in January 1961 the Nkrumah administration desired minimal foreign influence in Ghanaian affairs, and saw Ghana Airways as a prime symbol of Ghana's statehood.

In early 1984, the PNDC government complained that Côte d ' Ivoire was allowing Ghanaian dissidents to use its territory as a base from which to carry out acts of sabotage against Ghana.

Despite this difference, grammatical similarities between Sakkwatanci and Ghanaian Hausa determine that the dialect, and the origin of the Ghanaian Hausa people themselves, are derived from the Northwestern Hausa area surrounding Sokoto.

Hausa is also widely spoken by non-native Gur and Mande Ghanaian Muslims, but differs from Gaananci, and rather has features consistent with non-native Hausa dialects.

It would be naive and unrealistic for certain sections of the Ghanaian society to think that the request for economic assistance from the World Bank and its affiliates means a sell-out of the aims and objectives of the Ghanaian revolution to the international community ...

To highlight the importance of encouraging more female leaders in Ghanaian society, the Yaa Asantewaa Girls ' Secondary School was established at Kumasi in 1960 with funds from the Ghana Educational Trust.

These Communities ( only major Communities ) range from Polish, Albanian, Romanian, Nigerian, Ghanaian, Jamaican, Indian, Bengali, and more.

The word junkanoo is said to be derived from a Ghanaian leader, John Connu, or from the Qujo supreme deity ( Canno ) and ancestral spirits ( jannanin ).

By the 1970s, however, pop music from Europe and the US dominated the Ghanaian scene until a mid-1970s roots revival.

Among the Igbo people, Ghanaian highlife became popular in the early 1950s, and other guitar-band styles from Cameroon and Zaire soon followed.

Other organizations using the name Rosicrucian formed after Stewart's removal from AMORC include the Ghanaian Order of the Rose Cross led by Benjamin Quaye and the Norwegian Order of the Rose Cross led by Robert Aarberg of which both orders are closely allied with Stewart's Confraternity of the Rose Cross ; and the short-lived Ancient Rosae Crucis which was led by Ashley McFadden.

The Ghanaian and the Nigerian troops came from the Royal West African Frontier Force.

Kufuor's career has been spent on the liberal-democratic side of Ghanaian politics, in the parties descended from the United Gold Coast Convention and the United Party.

Organised by the influential Trinidadian pan-Africanist George Padmore and Ghanaian independence leader Kwame Nkrumah, it was attended by 90 delegates, 26 from Africa.

For its initial operations, Ghana Airways joined the pool services, when BOAC began operating the Accra-London route on 16 July 1958 with a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, with the aircraft being operated with the Ghanaian flag and in a livery minimally adapted from that of the UK carrier.

Following the February 1966 coup in which Nkrumah's regime was overthrown, the new National Liberation Council ( NLC ) took steps to eliminate loss-making routes from the Ghana Airways network, which Nkrumah had kept open in order to show the Ghanaian flag.

The Union also claimed that funds from the Lagos office of the airline were used to fund the office of the Ghanaian High Commission in Abuja.

In 2010, Kelly, Ditrich and Frank joined Ashley MacIsaac and folk musician Matthew Harder in recording a charity single, " Dreams ", to benefit Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, a skier from Ghana who was the first Ghanaian athlete ever to compete in the Winter Olympics.

The Ghanaian military often has to make do with poorly-serviced weaponry and equipment due to lack of maintenance training and capability.

The Ghanaian Army relies on a mix of modern military technology and older varieties.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

The Ghanaian military is recognised as one of the most professional and up-to-date armed forces in West Africa, and as Ghana itself is a peaceful nation, enjoying stable relations with its neighbours in West Africa, Ghana is free to commit a large proportion of its armed forces to international peacekeeping operations.

* Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ( 1931 – 1979 ), Ghanaian military ruler

* Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian politician and military leader

Local variants such as Ghanaian Sign Language and Nigerian Sign Language arose in anglophone countries as well.

The fertile, forested southern coastal region is inhabited by African Ghanaian groups speaking Kwa languages such as Akan and Ga. Their music is in the Niger-Congo tradition, associated with social or spiritual functions, and relies on complex polyrhythmic patterns played by drums and bells as well as harmonized song.

Current first-team players such as Welsh international Andy King, Ghanaian international Jeffrey Schlupp, defender Liam Moore and goalkeeper Conrad Logan have come through the club's youth system in recent years.

This may be a leading reason why the latest incarnation of Ghanaian music has not reached the ears of World Music promoters or bridged the frontiers of countries across Africa such as Congolese music has done.

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.

Violin in tow, Elfman next journeyed to Africa where he traveled through Ghana, Mali, and Upper Volta, absorbing new musical styles, including the Ghanaian highlife genre which would eventually influence his own music.

Historically, modern Ghanaian territory was the core of the Empire of Ashanti, which was one of the most advanced states in sub-Sahara Africa in the 18 – 19th centuries, before colonial rule.

Longtime observers of the Ghanaian political scene, however, identified two major issues at stake in the conflict between the government and its critics: the means by which political stability was to be achieved, and the problem of attaining sustained economic growth.

Improvement in relations followed Israeli attempts to prevent Ghanaian support for the Palestinian Authority, which led to a state visit to Ghana by Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman in September 2009.

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

When the company was founded, a seven year agreement between the airline and BOAC was also signed, which saw BOAC personnel being seconded to Accra, and Ghanaian personnel being trained in order for them to take over management and operations of the airline.

BOAC saw this arrangement with the Italian airline to be in competition with their agreement with the Ghanaian airline, under which Ghana Airways would be required to sell tickets for both airlines on the Accra-London route, which in the case of the Alitalia would be operated via Rome.

He also noted that the British creditor released the aircraft after the airline paid US $ 1 million. The Ghanaian government announced in September 2002 that it had signed a deal with Nationwide Airlines which would see the South African airline taking over the management of the airline, which would have been renamed Ghana Nationwide International Airlines.

The GAF, along with the Ghanaian Army and Navy, make up the armed forces of Ghana which are controlled by that nation's Ministry of Defence.

George Darko ( born 1951, Akropong ) is a Ghanaian highlife musician, who introduced the Burger-highlife with his first hit " Ako ti brofo " ( Even Parrots speak English ), which was very popular in the early 1980s.

It has often been said that there was no connection between the Ancient Ghanaian Empire Ouagadougou ( which bordered Ancient Morocco, Algeria, Niger and Ancient Sudan ) and Present Day Republic of Ghana in West Africa.

However, despite his initial success, the following season saw the arrival of Ghanaian Michael Essien in August 2005 from Olympique Lyonnais, which limited his first-team chances.

Of these, only one is still used today, Fort Christiansborg, which is the Ghanaian president's residence in Ghana.

With the arrival of the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which included members of rebel movements, more than 900 Tunisian and Ghanaian blue helmets contributed to the security of Kinshasa.

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.

Under these circumstances, AdaSL has developed an indigenous sign language, fully independent from the country's standard Ghanaian Sign Language ( which is related to American Sign Language ).