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	ACCRA. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A transportation hub, Accra is linked by road and rail with Kumasi, in the interior, and with Tema, a major seaport.
		Riots in the city (1948), against high retail prices and European control, led to the rise of Kwame Nkrumah as a popular leader and marked an important early step in Ghana’s road to independence (1957).
		On Accra’s outskirts are Achimota School (1927), the country’s leading secondary school, and, in Legon, the Univ. of Ghana (1948).
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	Accra at Caribbean Topfunwebsites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Accra was founded by the Ga people in the fifteenth century as a centre for trade with the Portugal, who built a fort in the town, followed by the Sweden, Netherlands, France, Britain and Denmark by the end of the seventeenth century.
		The Accra Riots in 1948 launched the Ghanaian campaign for independence, which led to the Ghanaian Revolution and nationhood in 1957.
		Accra is home to the National Museum of Ghana, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Archives of Ghana, and Ghana's central library.
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	Accra Hotel
		Accra, population 1,661,400 (2001), is the capital of Ghana.
		http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html Accra was founded by the Ga people in the fifteenth century as a centre for trade with the Portuguese, who built a fort in the town, followed by the Swedish, Dutch, French, British and Danish by the end of the seventeenth century.
		The aftermath of the riots included the arrest of Kwame Nkrumah and other activists, and the incident is seen as marking the beginning of the process of independence for the Gold Coast as Ghana - the first African colony to achieve this.
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	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Do riots achieve anything?
		Riots achieve a lot and that is the language politicians do understand in parts of Africa, even though it's not the best because it destroys a lot of things and millions would have to be spent to replace them back.
		Riots are a result of desperation, and unavoidable when people feel oppressed and see no solution to their plight.
		Riots are not the answer to achieve a positive result, sadly those who riot, do not know any better nor have the ability or capability to make change for themselves.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4456848.stm (1729 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Accra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Demographic and housing aspects of structural adjustment and emerging urban form in Accra, Ghana.
		The miracle at Accra: German theologian Ulrich Duchrow tells how a visit to an African slave castle--and the movement of the spirit--created a "transforming moment" for Reformed Christians.
		Privatisation is top topic at Water Africa: two trade exhibitions due to open in Accra in January now seem particularly appropriate for Ghana.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Accra.asp (492 words)

	The Ga-Dangme People:A Historical Sketch III
		Accra harbour, located in the bay just beyond the Gá state palace at King's Street, and the nearby Salaga market became great centres of commerce; the many bonded warehouses around Accra attested to the economic prosperity of the town.
		By now Accra had become the gateway to European ideas, the motor-car, the modern dance band, all made their way to the rest of the country, having first been indelibly localised with an Accra signature that soon spread to the rest of the country.
		That Accra faces a shortage of housing is an understatement; and that the housing problem is worst in the ancestral settlements is a notorious fact.
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	Ghana FAMOUS GHANAIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kwame Nkrumah (1909–72), the first president of the republic, served in that capacity until the military coup of February 1966; he died in exile in Guinea.
		Danquah (1895–1965), a lawyer, was named vice-president of the UGCC at the time of its founding in 1947.
		Detained along with Nkrumah after the Accra riots in 1948, he later helped to found the GCP.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Ghana-FAMOUS-GHANAIANS.html (232 words)

	Ghana's hydro-class struggles : IMC Print
		ACCRA -- Notwithstanding the horrific soccer stadium disaster in which at least 165 people were killed in a police-incited stampede on May 9, the past week offered signs of genuine hope in Ghana.
		I've been privileged to witness a careful regrouping of the country's former revolutionary student/community movement, which is strengthening its political base by addressing two key areas of economic and social strife: the legacy of structural adjustment and water privatisation.
		After the March-April 2000 street riots which compelled the Bechtel Corp's rapid flight from its Cochabamba contract, Bank president James Wolfensohn was asked for a comment at a press conference on April 12.
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	Graphic Ghana - News
		The Accra circuit court yesterday granted bail to 12 people,including a woman,for their alleged involvement in the Weija riots.
		They are facing five counts of conspiracy, forcible entry, rioting with weapons,causing unlawful harm and assault, but each of them pleaded not guilty.
		He said as a result of the riots, the GWCL had not been able to supply about 10 million gallons of water to certain parts of Accra for the past three days and that might continue until the equipment,which were destroyed was replaced.
	www.graphicghana.com /article.asp?artid=7611 (387 words)

	Graphic Ghana - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Twelve people,including a woman,were yesterday remanded in custody by an Accra circuit court for their alleged involvement in the Weija riots that led to the destruction of property valued at more than ¢742 million belonging to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).
		He said as a result of the riots,the GWCL had not been able to supply about 10 million gallons of water to certain parts of Accra for the past three days and that might continue until the equipment destroyed was replaced.
		He argued that the suspects were arrested in the early hours of yesterday when they were asleep and were never arrested on the day of the incident.But the court rejected his plea and remanded the suspects.
	www.graphicghana.info /article.asp?artid=7378 (402 words)

	Genesis of Broadcasting in Ghana
		Despite the overwhelming support for the privatisation of broadcasting, the PNDC was reluctant to loosen its grip on the electronic media until May 1994, when residents of Accra woke up to the sound of a pirate FM station called 'Radio Eye'.
		The confiscation sparked bloody riots in Accra, ending the first attempt at breaking state monopoly over broadcasting.
		Accra now boasts of three private terrestrial TV channels and several satellite channels, while Kumasi, the second largest city has three satellite channels.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=74034 (828 words)

	Some different routes to independence in Africa
		Violence: Riots broke out in Cairo in March 1947 and the British decided to withdraw all of their troops from the main cities, leaving garrisons only in the Canal Zone.
		In the coastal towns of Accra and Sekondi- Takoradi, African labor unions controlled the ports and railroads of the colony.
		Riots in Leopoldville in January 1959 and October 1959 led to a hasty decision by the Belgian government to grant independence on June 30, 1960.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/lectures/4cases.htm (3774 words)

	Graphic Ghana - News
		The angry asylum seekers, whose status is still being determined by the authorities,inflicted a wound on the head of an officer of NADMO,Mr Isaac Asomani,fractured his arm and chased him, together with the police officer on duty, Constable John Ali, out of the fort.
		Using as their weapons firewood to be used to prepare food for them, the asylum seekers broke the door to the reception of the fort before attacking the two officers.
		Meals being prepared for the asylum seekers were splashed on the ground inside the Fort.While some residents of the fort claimed the asylum seekers poured the meals down after pulling out firewood to break the door to the reception of the fort,they counter-claimed that the food was not spilt by them.
	www.graphicghana.com /article.asp?artid=7273 (924 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » West Africa wants Ivory Coast peace force trebled
		ACCRA, March 6 (Reuters) - West African army chiefs called for a three-fold increase in the size of their peacekeeping force in Ivory Coast as rival factions from the war-torn country gathered on Thursday to try to end a dangerous stalemate.
		Anti-French riots erupted in the commercial capital Abidjan at the end of January after reports of the ministerial deal reached at Marcoussis.
		The meeting of regional military chiefs said the force, with contingents from Benin, Ghana, Niger, Senegal and Togo, would be increased in size in two phases and would be known as ECOMICI, acronym for ECOWAS mission in Cote d'Ivoire.
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	SERSAS
		In 1885, Emmanual Yaw Boakye was expelled from a new station at Asuom, in reply to which the missionaries sent a delegation to Accra to call for the prosecution of his harrassers, despite some attempts at reconciliation by Atta.
		As well as being an important Euro-African trader, Cleland was also a relative of an important Accra stool, had fought in the 1873-4 war, and had served the administration as Justice of the Peace in 1874.
		Similarly, while the administration clearly could not allow threats to white missionaries and riots to go unheeded in December 1886, their response was a commission of inquiry, and a large constabulary force was only sent after Atta's death in February of the next year.
	www.ecu.edu /african/sersas/Papers/GetzTrevorFall2001.htm (4746 words)

	Accra
		May 2001 Disasters - May 9, Accra, Ghana: At least 120 people were killed in a stampede at a soccer match.
		The miracle at Accra: German theologian Ulrich Duchrow tells how a visit to an African slave castle--and the movement of the spirit--created......
		Privatisation is top topic at Water Africa: two trade exhibitions due to open in Accra in January now seem particularly appropriate......
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	Kwame Nkrumah - MSN Encarta
		In 1926 Nkrumah entered Achimota College in Accra, the capital of the Gold Coast.
		In 1948 a UGCC-organized boycott of foreign products led to riots in Accra, and Nkrumah and several other UGCC leaders were arrested by British colonial authorities and briefly imprisoned.
		In 1951 elections for the colonial legislative council, the CPP won most of the seats and Nkrumah, while still in prison, won the central Accra seat by a landslide.
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	British Empire - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Although the British considered the act to be perfectly fair, many American colonists saw it as a violation of their rights.
		After riots in the colonies, the Stamp Act was repealed, but other taxes soon replaced it, setting off a controversy in which the colonies united against Britain in the Continental Congress.
		Riots in Accra in February 1948, however, forced a relatively rapid transition in the Gold Coast, which in 1957 became the independent nation of Ghana.
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	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A series of riots followed the boycott in early February, 1948.
		After the riots, the Nationalist leaders in Ghana sent a strong worded cable to the Secretary of State in London.
		In the cause of the riots however, two policemen were shot dead.
	www.info-ghana.com /history.htm (1352 words)

	Canadian Journal of Communication - Vol. 28, No. 1 (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A riot by residents of Nima, a suburb of Accra, in 1997, cited by 28 out of 120 interview respondents (23.3%) and 25 out of 72 focus group participants (34.7%).
		The Nima riots, on the other hand, though equally vivid, dealt with an issue that most residents of the city were very much aware of and most likely experienced on a daily basis — an obtrusive issue (waste disposal/management and sanitation).
		In terms of framing, it is interesting to note that personal observations and analysis of media reports on the Nima riots revealed that there were striking differences between the way the state-owned media and the private media reported it.
	www.cjc-online.ca /viewarticle.php?id=763&layout=html (10753 words)

	Ghana
		In 2000 Accra textile traders were told that they could not hold a demonstration to protest a textile price hike because they lacked a police permit, although there is no legal requirement for a permit.
		During the year, the Accra Branch of this unit recorded 658 cases, including 204 defilement cases, 58 rapes, 5 cases of incest, 28 indecent assaults, 232 instances of assault and wife battery, and 9 abductions.
		A 1999 case in which off-duty soldiers clashed with civilians in the Oshiye area of Accra in a chieftancy dispute, resulting in several injuries, was pending before the courts at year's end.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8379.htm (20526 words)

	ipedia.com: Democratic Republic of the Congo Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He became a member of the permanent committee of the All-African Peoples Conference (founded in Accra, 1958) and president of the Congolese National Movement, an influential political party.
		Lumumba escaped but was recaptured and then flown (January, 1961), on orders from Mobutu and Kasavubu, to Katanga (now Shaba), where in February, it was announced that he had been killed.
		Riots of protest took place in many parts of the world.
	www.ipedia.com /democratic_republic_of_the_congo.html (1653 words)

	Accra Beach
		Accra is located at 5°30' North, 0°10' West (5.5, -0.1667).
		There is no indication that events in Prague influenced attitudes towards what was going on in Accra.
		:''For other meanings see Hearts of Oak'' Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club are a football (soccer) club based in Accra, Ghana formed in 1910.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/1/accra-beach.html (1403 words)

	www.ghanaweb.com: General News of Wednesday, 2 March 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Accra, March 2, GNA - Colonel Opoku Adusei, Director of Operations, Ghana Armed Forces on Wednesday cautioned against intra-religious riots, which might not have any political undertone but could be exploited to thwart national development.
		Adusei, who was speaking at a lecture organized by the Valley View University to enlighten the students on issues bothering on national security in Accra noted that intra-religious riots were new phenomenon and that steps ought to taken to ensure that such acts were nipped in the bud.
		The state of the national security was relatively calm and that there was no cause for alarm, he said.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/printnews.php?ID=76392 (254 words)

	Welcome to the Republic of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Gold Coast was regarded as the showpiece of Britain's colonies: the richest, the best educated, the first to have an elected majority in the legislature and with the best organized native authorities.
		The Gold Coast riots in 1948, which marked the start of the people's agitation for independence, were instrumental in changing British policy and drove home the point that colonialism had no future.
		But a long struggle still lay ahead - and the man who was the catalyst of that struggle was Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Born in 1909, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah trained as a teacher at Achimota College in Ghana and then in the United States and Britain, where he obtained his degrees.
	www.ghana.gov.gh /visiting/ghana/history.php (1793 words)

	Liberian port is closed after riot leaves 2 dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A West African summit in Ghana was canceled last Wednesday after most heads of state and Johnson's two main adversaries, faction leaders Charles Taylor and Alhaji Kromah, failed to turn up.
		Taylor has made no public pronouncements since the Accra meeting, at which foreign ministers recommended that Johnson be reinstated as rural development minister and that gunmen be removed from the capital.
		More than 150,000 Liberians have died in six years of civil war, half the population of 2.9 million has been left homeless, and a half-dozen warring factions have emerged.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/05/12/monrovia.html (583 words)

	Welcome to the Republic of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Twelve people, including a woman, were yesterday remanded in custody by an Accra circuit court for their alleged involvement in the Weija riot that led to the destruction of property valued at more than ¢742 million belonging to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).
		They were charged with five counts of conspiracy, forcible entry, rioting with weapons, causing unlawful harm and assault but each of them pleaded not guilty.
		These were contained in a statement of defence filed by the Attorney General in the suit filed against him and the Chief Justice by Tsikata at the Accra High Court seeking a declaration that the Supreme Court’s 4-1 decision of November 8, 2004 on his submission of ‘no case’ was null and void.
	www.ghana.gov.gh /article.php?id=0000010444 (2921 words)

	Former fighters in second day of riots, UNMIL offers initial payment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A convoy of foreign journalists enroute to the Scheifflein cantonment site had to turn back to town after the rioting fighters hit the windshield of a commercial vehicle that was moving along side the convoy.
		Defense Minister Daniel Chea said frantic efforts were being made by UNMIL in close collaboration with senior government officers and military commanders to get the fighters off the streets.
		IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=38318 (725 words)

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