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...GHANA Another Soccer Tragedy - and the Worst Tragedy struck an African football stadium for the fourth time in a month when 126 panicked fans died in a stampede in Accra. A shocked President John Kufuor declared three days of mourning and called for an inquiry into the continent's worst-ever soccer disaster. Witnesses said people were crushed to death while fleeing tear gas fired by police to control rioting near the end of the match. Hometown team Hearts of Oak had just taken the lead against archrival Asante Kotoko. The death toll from the other recent stadium disasters...
...Treki: The idea is not a new one. In 1963, the great leaders of Africa met in Accra to discuss uniting Africa. Some of them believed this unity should be achieved quickly, but others, like the late Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, thought it should be achieved gradually. Nyerere later told us he regretted that position, saying "We lost a lot of time...
...Once my father did something that quite shocked me." Kofi Annan is talking. He is nestled in the back of a royal-blue Mercedes, part of a six-car motorcade flying along the streets of Accra, Ghana. Air conditioning purrs inside the car. Outside, motorcycle outriders scream past, inches from the doors, sirens singing as they race ahead. Annan shakes his head and gives the tiniest of sighs. "I asked them to skip the outriders. I asked for a nice, low-key day out." A grin. The streets are lined with men and women who become ecstatic as the cars...
...This past summer, when she ventured from her home near Tacoma, Wash., it was not to Rome or Rio but to West Africa, where she did as much as six hours' worth of volunteer work each day for three weeks in a village named Ho, 50 miles north of Accra, Ghana. Under the auspices of the organization Cross-Cultural Solutions, Carnright, a part-time real estate agent, assisted in a local nursery school, reading to children, teaching them songs, numbers and colors, and telling them about life in America...
...sends volunteers to India and Peru, is to awaken understanding of the world's diversity. On many afternoons and evenings, Carnright visited villagers in their homes or met with groups curious about the U.S. and how it differed from Ghana. After her work stint, she spent a week in Accra, where a friend she had made in the village took her to museums, the national park and the beach and told her the history of his country. Reflecting on a summer vacation well spent, Carnright says, "You feel like you have accomplished something. You open things up for people...