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Heavy Fighting Continues in Ivory Coast's Largest City
By not in system - AOL NewsABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Nine days after former President Laurent Gbagbo was captured, his die-hard forces were still battling troops of Ivory Coast's democratically elected president on Wednesday in an Abidjan neighborhood, leaving civilians in the crossfire. While shelling shook the walls of homes in the Yopougon suburb, the rest of Ivory Coast's commercial capital tried to inch back to normality. Traffic was returning to the streets and shops were reopening, though there were shortages of many things - including money. Banks have not reopened and officials said they were trying to get ...
Obama to Increase Engagement With Africa in 2011
By not in system - AOL NewsHONOLULU -- President Barack Obama is quietly but strategically stepping up his outreach to Africa, using this year to increase his engagement with a continent that is personally meaningful to him and important to U.S. interests. Expectations in Africa spiked after the election of an American president with a Kenyan father. But midway through his term, Obama's agenda for Africa has taken a backseat to other foreign policy goals, such as winding down the Iraq war, fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan and resetting relations with Russia. Obama aides believe those issues are now on more solid ...
Global Chocolate Crisis Looms
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- Forget oil and freshwater -- the world may soon be running out of a precious resource that some Americans simply can't live without: chocolate. "In 20 years chocolate will be like caviar," John Mason, executive director of the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council, told Britain's Independent. "It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won't be able to afford it." To American consumers used to grabbing a cheap Hershey bar in the checkout line, that might seem unfathomable, but the simple economics of cocoa cultivation may be working against that ...
Buried in a Shoe? Ghana's Custom Coffins Celebrate Lives of the Dead
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Oct. 26) -- A coffin might be your most lasting purchase -- so shouldn't it make a lasting impression? Craftsmen in the African nation of Ghana have gained international acclaim for their flashy, custom-built coffins, which are individually designed to resemble an object with special meaning to the person who died. From gigantic hammers and oversize snails to comically large cell phones and humongous pineapples, the caskets made by the Ga tribe are very personalized. ...
First Black Mayor Elected in Eastern Europe
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 25) -- An African-born doctor known as the "Obama of Piran" -- after the small coastal town in southwest Slovenia where he lives -- has been elected as Eastern Europe's first black mayor. Originally from Ghana, Peter Bossman came to Slovenia in the 1970s, when it was still part of Yugoslavia, to study medicine. Running for mayor under the ruling, center-left Social Democrats, Bossman said that his race was never an issue and that he never faced discrimination because he's from Africa. Stringer, AFP / Getty Images Peter Bossman celebrates his victory in his party's headquarters in ...
Ghana Beats US in Soccer and Bizarre Signs
By David Moye - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- The west African country of Ghana not only beat the U.S. in soccer during the World Cup, but the citizens are also winning the battle of bizarre business signage. That's the only possible conclusion one gets after reading "Joe's Hair That Talk's: The Vibrant Sign Culture of Ghana" (Women in Progress), a photo book that provides a peek into the country's unique form of local advertising. Although Ghana is officially an English-speaking country, there is only 50 percent literacy, so there is lots of room for interpretation on how to spell words and what to name businesses. ...
Uruguay Beats Ghana in World Cup Quarterfinals
By not in system - AOL NewsJOHANNESBURG (July 2) -- Uruguay reached the World Cup semifinals for the first time since 1970, beating Ghana 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw Friday. ...
Spain Beats Portugal: Who Is the World Cup Favorite Now?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsBy beating Portugal on David Villa's lone goal, Spain joined seven other remaining teams at the 2010 World Cup for what looks to be an exciting quarterfinal round. With the competitors (including the U.S. team) dropping like flies, it's time to take stock of the remaining eight teams and see whether any clear favorites have emerged. Here's a glance at the upcoming matches. July 2 Netherlands vs. Brazil Uruguay vs. Ghana July 3 Argentina vs. Germany Paraguay vs. Spain Global oddsmakers seem to like Brazil over the Netherlands, Uruguay over Ghana, Argentina over Germany and Spain over ...
Look Away, U.S. World Cup Fans: 25 Photos of Excitement in Ghana
By Andrea Patino - Politics DailyIn the Ghanaian capital of Accra, not far from where I have been studying abroad this semester, locals and obrunis ("foreigners" in Twi, one of the local languages) alike gathered in a popular neighborhood called Osu to watch Saturday's World Cup match between the United States and Ghana. The excitement (dancing, singing, rejoicing) before kickoff made it seem like the national team had already achieved victory. The spirited atmosphere during play made the match difficult to follow. In a taxi I took the day before the game, the driver told me, "Tomorrow Americans deserve at least one goal, ...
Obama and Ghana's Leader To Trade World Cup Soccer Team Jerseys
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe World Cup soccer tournament was apparently at least a minor distraction for the world leaders meeting at the economic summits in Canada this weekend. Prior to the game Saturday between the United States and Canada, President Obama and Ghana President John Atta Mills, in the "spirit of comaraderie and sportsmanship," agreed to exchange team jerseys when next they meet. The two leaders reaffirmed close ties between the citizens of the two countries, the White House said, and "our shared passion on the soccer field." Ghana won the match 2-1 in Rustenburg, South Africa. And one of Obama's ...
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