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NYU Medical Student Helps Create Africa’s first Medical Network in Ghana

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Linking physicians to a single network has profound implications for a country’s health care system. With that in mind, Brian Levine, a fourth year medical student at the New York University school of medicine, decided to set up an online social networking site so doctors all over Ghana could collaborate with each other.

UNCTAD XII Diary: Day 5: Final Outcome–UNCTAD XIII in QATAR!

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RESEARCH and ANALYSIS–solid mandate. Conference has reinforced official mandate. Innovative work. Short mandate for UNCTAD. Great. Policy options and independent analysis for developing countries. Significant.
Another area is the…role of trade and development board in conducting policy dialogue…has been retained and reinforced. So UNCTAD will continue with that [...]

UNCTAD XII Diary: Day Three: Gearing towards Endgame

Seeing as some of the more popular social networking sites for Africa have not been covering UNCTAD XII here in Ghana, I am bringing you a perspective of one of yesterday’s event. Today is Day Four, and it ends tomorrow. As I write this, I shall be briskly getting up to go off to listen [...]

Across West Africa, Ghana has “a very clear definition of how democracy is the way forward “

As “coups, civil wars End, and multiparty politics rise” in West African subregion, the Washington Post highlights the political progress, with special emphasis on Ghana. “The fact that in countries like Ghana there is a very clear definition of how democracy is the way forward does not only help Ghana…It is transmitted as a signal [...]

I Facebook, therefore I am

There are many happy people swimming in the information society here in Ghana who are totally oblivious to the phenomenon that is Facebook. There are many satisfied with doing the occasional searches in Google; checking their electronic mail, and surfing the Internet on anything and everything. That you can go to any internet café around [...]

Apprentice Africa Kicks off

The Bank PHB sponsored Apprentice Africa will hit airwaves from tomorrow, February 26, airing almost simultaneously in five different countries across the continent including Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Camera rolled out for the show on Sunday January 20, which marked the beginning of business tasks for the18 young Africans contesting for the $200,000 [...]

A Critique of President Bush’s Africa Agenda

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President Bush has less than 12 months to go in his presidency, and not unlike other heads of state before him, decides at the last hour that one final hurray in Africa is the medicine that will remedy all the mistakes made along the way.