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...hospital, was released after treatment and returned to the border. There, he said, "I counted as many as 15 bodies and about 100 injured. Some of the corpses had shattered chests and thighs." His wife had disappeared in the confusion, but the couple was later reunited in Accra, the Ghanaian capital...
Political oppression has taken its own savage toll. Early last year Nigeria expelled 2 million Ghanaian workers to ease the mounting problems it faced trying to provide work for its own population. Some 700,000 ethnic Somalis, victims of a protracted war with Ethiopia, live in refugee camps within Somalia. The Sudan shelters another 637,000 refugees, including secessionist Eritreans who have been forced to flee Marxist-oriented Ethiopia, as well as 200,000 Ugandans. The Ugandan refugees have fled in two waves: those escaping the brutal policies of former Dictator Idi Amin in the '70s and those...
...cargo in Yugoslavia in March. The last stop, probably only a few hours before the fire, had been Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, 155 miles off the northwest coast of Africa. Venezuelan Defense Ministry officials believe that the Cloud's three British and nine Ghanaian sailors were picked up by a Panamanian liner and taken to Senegal. The Cloud then drifted for 62 days, during which it traveled some 1,800 miles before crossing paths with the Maracaibo...
...reinvigorate the economy and revive foreign confidence, Rawlings recently unveiled a new four-year recovery plan based on still more state control of the economy. "Successive Ghanaian governments have done more or less the same thing, with disastrous results," says a Western diplomat. "It seems like a new recipe for an old economic disaster...
...problems in 1983. In return, the IMF is likely to demand a devaluation of the cedi, Ghana's grossly overvalued currency, along with other stringent austerity measures. Any such agreement, however, could easily spark another coup by revolutionary elements within the military. The powerful radicals, says a former Ghanaian army officer, would "like to turn Ghana into a Cuba overnight and get rid of the last vestiges of private enterprise." As Rawlings vacillates between unpalatable alternatives, the influx of refugees brings not only the promise of serious food shortages but a dangerous infusion of unfulfilled expectations. Says returning Construction...