GenevaLunch » Ghana http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no World Health Assembly meets in Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/world-health-assembly-meets-in-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/world-health-assembly-meets-in-geneva/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 17:26:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70387 GenevaLunch.com Dr Margaret Chan up for election to head WHO for second term GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Health Organization’s 192 members are meeting for five days in Geneva starting Monday 21 May. The assembly will elect a director general and current head Dr Margaret Chan, with solid backing from the board, looks set for re-election. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/world-health-assembly-meets-in-geneva/feed/ 0 Ghana shocked by “caged” pregnant womenhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/ghana-shocked-by-caged-pregnant-women/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/ghana-shocked-by-caged-pregnant-women/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 15:11:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57367 GenevaLunch.com Television viewers in Ghana were shocked recently to see images of pregnant women placed in cages because they were unable to pay their medical bills, according to an editorial in The Chronicle, posted on allAfrica. “Pictures of pregnant women being held hostage at the Eastern Regional Hospital at Koforidua, because they were unable to pay [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/ghana-shocked-by-caged-pregnant-women/feed/ 0 Cote d’Ivoire conflict heats up, thousands on the runhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/29/cote-divoire-conflict-heats-up-thousands-on-the-run/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/29/cote-divoire-conflict-heats-up-thousands-on-the-run/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:19:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55858 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Geneva-based refugee and migration officials say the conflict in Cote d’Ivoire, which has been building for weeks, has suddenly heated up and some 20,000 people have been sealed off by fighting in the west. “A major military offensive launched in Western Cote d’Ivoire by forces loyal to president-elect Alassane Ouattara has [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/29/cote-divoire-conflict-heats-up-thousands-on-the-run/feed/ 0 Ghana booted out of Olympicshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/13/ghana-booted-out-of-olympics/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/13/ghana-booted-out-of-olympics/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:13:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52374 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The IOC (International Olympic Committee) at a 13 January meeting in Lausanne suspended Ghana’s National Olympic Committee (NOC), meaning that unless there is a major change the country will not participate in the London Games in 2012. The reason for the suspension was political interference, the IOC says in a statement, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/13/ghana-booted-out-of-olympics/feed/ 0 Ghana’s entrepreneurs cry for access to unspent €22m from Italyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/23/ghanas-entrepreneurs-cry-for-access-to-unspent-e22m-from-italy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/23/ghanas-entrepreneurs-cry-for-access-to-unspent-e22m-from-italy/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:13:33 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=51591 GenevaLunch.com Italy in 2007 gave Ghana €22 million to support small and medium-sized companies as part of overall development funding, but three years later the funds remain untouched, to the dismay of Ghana’s entrepreneurs, reports allAfrica. The money was designed to top up a €11m fund set up by the Italian government in 2003, according to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/23/ghanas-entrepreneurs-cry-for-access-to-unspent-e22m-from-italy/feed/ 0 Hitzfeld: Switzerland’s elimination is also his defeat, US Eliminated! (Update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/26/hitzfeld-switzerlands-elimination-is-also-his-defeat/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/26/hitzfeld-switzerlands-elimination-is-also-his-defeat/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:23:25 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=44096 GenevaLunch.com International sports, World Cup football roundup Swiss coach to stay on until 2012 South Africa (GenevaLunch.com) – Switzerland’s inability to qualify for the Group of 16 didn’t seem to take all of their fans by surprise, but it was nevertheless a sad day for Swiss football fans. The French-speaking press noted that the Swiss squad [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/26/hitzfeld-switzerlands-elimination-is-also-his-defeat/feed/ 0 World Cup recap: Vuvuzelas herald first African win, England reactshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/13/world-cup-recap-vuvuzelas-herald-first-african-win/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/13/world-cup-recap-vuvuzelas-herald-first-african-win/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:02:07 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=43443 GenevaLunch.com International sports, 2010 Football World Cup [Video]Tshwane/Pretoria, South Africa (GenevaLunch) – The Ghana Black Stars recorded the first victory for the host continent with a 1-0 win over Serbia, to the delight of the vuvuzela tooting crowd. In fact the Serbian team helped in their own destruction by first having a player sent off and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/13/world-cup-recap-vuvuzelas-herald-first-african-win/feed/ 0 International sports, football: Egypt takes Africa Cup of Nationshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/international-sports-football-egypt-takes-africa-cup-of-nations/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/international-sports-football-egypt-takes-africa-cup-of-nations/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:48:04 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=36259 GenevaLunch.com Luanda, Angola (GenevaLunch) – The match was off to a slow start and the score remained low, but in the end what mattered was the one goal that gave Egypt a 1-0 win over Ghana for the title of the Africa Cup of Nations.It is the seventh time Egypt has taken the title, and it [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/international-sports-football-egypt-takes-africa-cup-of-nations/feed/ 0 One billion hungry people waiting for action on food securityhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/19/one-billion-hungry-people-waiting-for-action-on-food-security/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/19/one-billion-hungry-people-waiting-for-action-on-food-security/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:02:47 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=31915 GenevaLunch.com The world food security conference in Rome, Italy closed 18 November with promises to invest more in agriculture and “to eradicate hunger at the earliest date”, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), which hosted the three-day event. FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf expressed his disappointment at the lack of measurable targets and specific deadlines. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/19/one-billion-hungry-people-waiting-for-action-on-food-security/feed/ 0 International sports, football: More teams qualify for World Cup finalshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/11/international-sports-football-more-teams-qualify-for-world-cup-finals/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/11/international-sports-football-more-teams-qualify-for-world-cup-finals/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:53:25 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=29657 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Nineteen countries have now secured their places in  the Fifa World Cup finals to be held in South Africa in 2010 after the penultimate games in the qualification series. In the African group Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire are through and six places are up for grabs. Australia, Japan and the two Koreas [...]

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