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Topic: Upper West Region

	Meet Africa
		Northern region is inhabited by the Dagomba, Nanumba, Manprusi, Kunkumber, Gonja and Bimoba tribes.
		Upper East region is inhabited by the Gruhi, Bulsa, Grushi and Kusasi tribes.
		The Upper West Region, the youngest region of Ghana with a total land area of 18,476km square and a population of 573,860, lies in the extreme west fringes of northern Ghana.
	www.meetafrica.org /northernghana.htm (1699 words)

	ghanatourism.gov.gh - UPPER WEST REGION
		The capital of the region is Wa which is also the seat of the Wa Naa, Paramount Chief of the Walas.
		Wa is the regional capital and the gateway to the Upper West Region from the south.
		Upper West has some good medical facilities to offer and these can also be found in most cities and the major towns.
	www.ghanatourism.gov.gh /regions/region_detail.asp?id=3 (825 words)

	ghanaexpeditions.com - UPPER WEST REGION
		The capital of the region is Wa which is also the seat of the Wa Naa, Paramount Chief of the Walas.
		Wa is the regional capital and the gateway to the Upper West Region from the south.
		Upper West has some good medical facilities to offer and these can also be found in most cities and the major towns.
	www.ghanaexpeditions.com /regions/region_detail.asp?id=3 (796 words)

	Regional News of Wednesday, 6 July 2005
		Mr Salia said with better roads the Upper West Region's poverty would be reduced through improved agriculture, better access to health, education and other social services as well as attracting tourism, foreign and local investments in the region's economy.
		Contributing to the statement, Dr. Konadu Apraku, Minister of Regional Co-operation and NEPAD, said a lot would have to be done on road construction in the Upper West Region and called for an extensive road network project for the development of the area.
		He said for the government to remove the perception that because the region did not vote for the NPP it was suffering such neglect, it must embark on a serious road development in the area to erase the erroneous impression.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/regional/artikel.php?ID=85235 (715 words)

	Special Report: GHANA - 13 March 2002
		Although cassava and yam are grown extensively in the southern parts of Northern and Upper West Regions, their importance declines towards the north of the area where the cropping is overwhelmingly cereal- and legume-based.
		Where cotton is grown, as in parts of Upper West Region, a large proportion of farmers tend to use at least some of their subsidised cotton fertiliser allocation (¢100 000 per bag) on maize, and their enhanced yields testify to its efficacy.
		In Upper East Region, livestock owners complained of high mortality rates among their small ruminants, caused by severe scouring after the first flush of grass following the arrival of the rains in May. Newcastle disease is still responsible for poultry losses in several localities despite the availability of vaccination against it.
	www.fao.org /docrep/005/y6325e/y6325e00.htm (8009 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ghana - Urban-Rural Disparities \| Ghanaian Information Resource
		While the Greater Accra Region showed an 83-percent urban residency, the Ashanti Region matched the national average of 32 percent in 1984.
		The Upper West Region of the country recorded only 10 percent of its population in urban centers that year, which reflected internal migration to the south and the pattern of development that favored the south, with its minerals and forest resources, over the north.
		Rural residency was estimated to be 67 percent of the population in 1992.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/ghana/ghana44.html (546 words)

	Sustainable funding for Chiefs, Veranstaltungen, Landesbüro Ghana, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
		The situation in the Upper West Region in particular has been aggravated by the fact that royalties from natural resources such as timber and minerals and land are insignificant.
		To organize a 2-day workshop for chiefs in the Upper West region to create awareness on potential sources of financial support for the work of chiefs and help the chiefs to articulate their views on how to access and manage such funding.
		The Regional House of Chiefs will organize a forum at which the communiqué would be presented to the Regional Minister and District Chief executives in the region for a dialogue to come to a consensus on the way forward for funding of the work of chiefs in the region.
	www.kas.de /proj/home/events/23/1/year-2007/month-3/veranstaltung_id-24287/index.html (547 words)

	Upper West Side - NYWiki
		The Upper West Side is that area of Manhattan between Central Park and the Hudson River, West 59th Street and West 110th Street/Cathedral Parkway.
		In respect of national origin, the Upper West Side is primarily European, with an above-national average representation of Hispanics from Latin America and the Caribbean (16.7% vs. the national average of 12.5%), and a below-average number of African-Americans (9.0% vs. the national average of 12.3%).
		The Upper West Side was the scene of a minor skirmish in George Washington’s Battle of New York in September 1776, roughly at the corner of 91st Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
	www.nywiki.com /new-york-city/index.php/Upper_West_Side (535 words)

	UPPER WEST REGION
		A Ghanaian colonial agent from Anomabu, George Ekem was instrumental in convincing the local chiefs in the North to sign treaties of friendship with the British.
		In 1897, a few years before the entire North (including Upper East and West) became a British Protectorate, he was captured by Samory, the famous slave raider, and was beheaded for aiding the white men.
		Built by Gbollu Koro Liman in the latter part of the 19th century as a defence against Samory's slave raids, parts of the wall and its foundation are still visible.
	www.ghanaembassy.or.jp /region/upperwest.html (421 words)

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		The Upper West region is poorly endowed with underground water.
		The region is a very good source of Sheanuts and is also suitably located to be able to access Sheanuts from neighboring Burkina Faso.
		The Upper West has an advantage in the sense that with dual-purpose machinery, the same factory can extract oil from both soyabeans and cottonseed and the residue from both can be converted into animal feed.
	www.cepa.org.gh /archives/research-working-papers/2003/Upper_West_Socioeconomic_Development_WRP.doc (1346 words)

	History of Ghana
		British Togoland, the fourth territorial element eventually to form the nation, was part of a former German colony administered by the United Kingdom from Accra as a League of Nations mandate after 1922.
		In December 1982, the PNDC announced a plan to decentralize government from Accra to the regions, the districts, and local communities, but it maintained overall control by appointing regional and district secretaries who exercised executive powers and also chaired regional and district councils.
		The hierarchy, called the Superior Court of Judicature, is composed of the Supreme Court of Ghana, the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice, regional tribunals, and such lower courts or tribunals as Parliament may establish.
	infotut.com /geography/Ghana (5574 words)

	West Nipissing - Upper French River Tourism Association
		The West Nipissing Snowmobile Club has been working very hard over the past few years not only to provide a super natural snowmobiling experience, but to assure that all the amenities are in place for the perfect snowmobile get-away weekend.
		The West Nipissing - Upper French River - Upper French River - Upper French River Snowmobile Club is a member of the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs (OFSC), and if you purchase an OFSC permit you can ride the local trails to your heart’s content.
		West Nipissing - Upper French River - normally has more than enough of it to go around, with the snow season running from December to March, with lots of the white stuff creating the best conditions.
	www.westnipissing-upperfrenchriver.com /winter.html (472 words)

	www.ghana.co.uk - News
		The Northern Region has 892,616 voters with 106 parliamentary candidates vying for 26 seats; Upper East 425,442 voters to select 13 MPs out of 59 candidates and the Upper West Region 276,147 voters to pick 10 MPs out of 40 candidates.
		The regional statistics for Election 2004 indicate that PNC is contesting 11 out of the 22 constituencies in the Western Region; eight out of 19 in the Central Region; 14 out of 27 in the Greater Accra Region; 13 out of 22 in the Volta Region and 13 out of 28 in the Eastern Region.
		The rest are 20 out of the 39 in the Ashanti Region; six out of 24 in the Brong Ahafo Region; 19 out of 26 in the Northern Region; 11 out of 13 in the Upper East Region and in all the 10 seats in the Upper West Region.
	www.ghana.co.uk /news/content.asp?articleID=13279 (485 words)

	Ghana
		They cited several cities in these regions where it is still widely practiced: Kasena-Nankana, Bolgatanga, Bawku East and Bawku West in the Upper East Region; Bole, Mamprusi, West Walewale and Zabaugu-Tatale Kotokoli in the Northern Region; Wa and Nandom in the Upper West Region; and Kodjebi, Worawora and Jasikan in the northern Volta Region.
		In the Upper East, it is most often performed during puberty as a rite of passage to womanhood.
		In the Upper East and Upper West regions, workshops were held for police, health workers, students and educators.
	www.state.gov /g/wi/rls/rep/crfgm/10100.htm (2275 words)

	www.ghana.co.uk - News
		The Regional Coordinating Council has directed district assemblies in the Upper West Region to factor into their Medium Term Development Plans the provision of at least one dam each year in their districts for irrigation.
		Mr Dery said under phase one of the IFAD funded Upper West Agricultural Development Project, 19 dams were rehabilitated in the region and expressed the hope that the project would be renewed to cater for more communities.
		He assured farmers in the region that they would get their fair share of the 400 tractors that would soon arrive in the country from India and urged those who were interested to begin mobilizing the initial deposit of 40 million cedis.
	www.ghana.co.uk /news/content.asp?articleID=14670 (409 words)

	Rural poverty in Ghana
		The three poorest regions, the North, Upper East and Upper West, occupy the parts of Ghana bordering on Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Togo.
		The Upper East and Upper West regions are covered by sahel savannah in the north-east and grassland savannah in the north-west.
		Increasing population pressure leads to continuous cultivation in the densely inhabited Upper East region and a shorter fallow period in the Upper West region, causing further deterioration of the land.
	www.ruralpovertyportal.org /english/regions/africa/gha/index.htm (768 words)

	The Upper Guinea Forest Region
		The principal threats to biodiversity and their root causes present a formidable challenge for the region.
		Threats to conservation in the region are inextricably linked to poverty, which drives urgent short-term needs that eliminate long-term opportunities.
		Much of the region’s population is closely dependent on, or not far removed from, the natural resource base and the variety of goods and services that healthy, productive ecosystems can provide.
	www.biodiversityscience.org /priority_outcomes/west_africa/upper.html (365 words)

	Akwaaba - Upper West Region
		The mabnificent palace still stands as stately as it did when it was first built in the 19th century.
		Moving on the stony road to Nandom, you chance on the classic Gothic architecture of a cathedral, thought to be the largest stone building in West Africa.
		The hippo-head-shaped piece of land is home to hippos along the Kulpawn River, which flows through the reserve.There are also roan antelopes, bucks, warthogs and a brid sanctuary in the grassland reserve surrounded by rocky hills.
	www.ghanatourismcluster.com /files/u_west.asp (278 words)

	Kees van der Geest - PhD research - Map of migration from UWR
		The map shows that there are concentrations of rural-urban migrants from the Upper West Region in Kumasi, Accra, Techiman and to a lesser extent Tamale.
		Further, it becomes clear that rural-rural migrants from the Upper West Region predominantly settle in the Western part of Ghana's 'middle belt', in the forest-savannah transitions zone.
		The map is 'tentative' because the district profiles for the Northern Region do not mention the 'birthplace by region' of the in-migrants of the various districts.
	users.fmg.uva.nl /kgeest/phd/map_migration_uwr.htm (203 words)

	Upper West Region Map: Lambussie-Nandom — Wa \| Ghana Google Satellite Maps
		Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
		You are in Upper West (Ghana), administrative region of level 1.
		If you would like to recommend this Upper West map page to a friend, or if you just want to send yourself a reminder, here is the easy way to do it.
	www.maplandia.com /ghana/upper-west (675 words)

	The Statesman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		During his nation-wide tours, he is also seeking to find out the state of the party in the constituencies and to have a dialogue with the party executives as to how to ensure a convincing victory for the party in the 2008 general elections.
		Over the weekend, Nana Akufo Addo entered the Upper West Region to a tumultuous welcome by hundreds of party supporters in vehicles, motorbikes and bicycles, who formed a mile-long convoy to meet him at Gindanbour, from where they escorted him to Wa.
		Even though the Minister’s intention was to interact with party executives only, he found himself having to address durbars of chiefs, as the chiefs were already sitting in state, patiently waiting for him by the time of his arrival.
	www.thestatesmanonline.com /pages/archive_year_detail.php?newsid=239 (998 words)

	Navrongo and Lawra Fact Sheet
		Navrongo and Lawra are in the guinea savannah of the Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana, West Africa respectively.
		To ease the administrative burden on the Northern Region therefore, an Upper Region was created out of the Northern Region to coincide with Ghana's attainment of Republican status on 1st July 1960.
		Lawra is the district capital of the Lawra District in the Upper West Region.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze827ph/factsheet.htm (1029 words)

	Ghana News :::: [www.highana.com] Ghana News updated from many sources around the net , Ghana Politics, News in Ghana, ...
		Ambrose Dery, Upper West Regional Minister on Sunday called for full-scale investigations into the alleged illegal school fees being charged in some schools in the Upper West Region.
		He said the payment of capitation grant to schools throughout the country covered both cultural and sports fees and those who were allegedly charging those fees separately were contravening the rules and would therefore be made to face the full rigours of the law.
		Dery said those who were charging the illegal fees in their schools were enemies of the government and were therefore doing everything possible to sabotage policies that could be workable for so many years.
	www.highana.com /myfeeds/read.php?nid=1673 (475 words)

	Flickr: Nasaldog
		The west African country is climatically, politically, economically and culturally divided into two parts: the (relatively rich) south and the (substantially poorer) north.
		The north is represented by the Northern Region and the two Upper Regions, Upper East Region and Upper West Region.
		The Upper West Region is located in the upmost north west of the country.
	www.flickr.com /people/tamfunk (779 words)

	Ghanaian Chronicle - Online : The current time is 2:52:34 AM on 6/13/2007
		The bulk of these cases were reported in the Northern Region, where there were 3,679 cases, representing 90%, with the Greater Accra, Eastern, Western, Upper East and Central regions, all together recording 18 cases (0%).
		Other regions such as the Brong Ahafo recorded 204 cases, representing 5%, Upper West recorded 90 cases representing 2%, Volta recorded 86 cases, representing 2% and the Ashanti region recorded 53 cases, representing 1%.
		Derry, who is also the regional guinea worm programme manager entreated endemic communities to adhere strictly to preventive measures such as the use of filters and prevent infected persons from entering water sources.
	www.ghanaian-chronicle.com /thestory.asp?id=420 (1289 words)

	www.dofreefishing.com - Free Fishing UK - North West Region
		Welcome to free fishing UK in the North West Region.
		The North West Region has thousands of kilometres of river and many hundreds of still waters.
		The region is split into four: Northern, Liverpool, Central and Southern Areas.
	www.dofreefishing.com /northwestregion.html (144 words)

	Ghana@50 - Official Website For The 50th Independence Anniversary Celebration Of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Three kilomteters west of Paga is the suburban village called "Paga Nania".
		In this village are a slave transit camp and relics of the slave trade.
		This cathedral, established in the early 20th century, symbolizes the roots of Catholicism in the Northern region.
	www.ghana50.gov.gh /tourism/index.php?op=getUpperEast (105 words)

	Graphic Ghana - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		According to him, Ghanaians and for that matter the people of the Upper West Region know that positive change brought by the NPP government has come to stay.
		Commenting on the chances of the NPP in the Upper West Region in the next general elections, Mr Tangu stressed that come the next general elections in 2008, the NPP would win 60 per cent of the votes in the region.
		The Upper West Regional Chairman of the NPP, Alhaji Abdulrahman Short, told members of the NDC to acknowledge the good works of the NPP stressing that “the Upper West Region ceases to be the ‘world bank’ of the NDC”.
	www.graphicghana.info /article.asp?artid=15247 (462 words)

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