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CAN2008: The Expensive Game, Where Talk is Cheap

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Posted by Emmanuel.K. Bensah on February 8, 2008 in Africa, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Discussion Lounge, Egypt, Ghana, Life & Culture, Sports

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African Cup of Nations 2008, Ghana: The defeat of the Ghana Black Stars by the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon with a scoreline of 1-0 in their favour has gone to further shatter to smithereens the idea of the “host-and-win” concept. When my Cameroon colleague told me that Cameroon would beat us—and that the home crowd [...]

TradeNet Portal: A West African Agric Trade Network Debuts

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Posted by CareTaker on October 31, 2007 in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote D’Ivoire, Discussion Lounge, Editor's Pick, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

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TradeNet is an online portal set up for traders and producers to “access prices for specific commodities and markets throughout West Africa”. The portal also permits SMS messaging ; users can receive alerts on prices and commodities and access “market conditions” via their cellphones.
TradeNet is conceived under the MISTOWA project which aims to increase [...]