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Babson Undergraduate Dean Dennis Hanno and 40 students, faculty and staff are spending winter break in Ghana, teaching entrepreneurship and business to high school students and adult learners. The program, begun nine years ago while Hanno…

A US man divorcing his wife is demanding that she return the kidney he donated to her or pay him $1.5m (£1m) in compensation. Dr Richard Batista told reporters that he decided to go public because he was frustrated at the slow pace of…

News broke this morning, January 8, 2009 that a third discovery of oil has been made in Ghana. But in separate statements released by two companies in the oil industry, UK registered Tullow Oil and US based Kosmos Energy have claimed the…

A team at Baylor University has made trunk liners, floorboards and car-door interior covers using fibers from the outer husks of coconuts, replacing the synthetic polyester fibers typically used in composite materials. The approach has…

When you're buying new electronics products there's lots to consider. A few years ago there was practically zero information if you wanted to make an environmentally sounder choice. The huge problems caused by the dumping of old…

BPL Global(R), Ltd. (BPLG), a smart grid technology company dedicated to leading the transformation of energy efficiency and reliability, announced Wednesday January 7, 2009 that it has signed a 5-year modern grid contract in partnership…

The release of Q208 results by many of West Africa’s major mobile operators (specifically France’s Orange, Kuwait’s Zain, Luxembourg’s Millicom International’s Tigo and Morocco’s Maroc Telecom) has allowed us to assess the likelihood that…

Information technology has become a priority in the development process of Ghana. Recently, the Ghana Stock Exchange was completely computerized. The government and schools are also converting to a digital solution system. This challenge…

U.K. stocks declined for a second day as the Bank of England’s interest-rate cut to the lowest in its three-century history failed to ease concern the recession will erode earnings. Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton Ltd. tumbled more than 6…

Shares in Tullow Oil gain 3.5 percent, making the UK-based oil explorer the top gainer in the FTSE 100 as it and U.S. producer Anadarko Petroleum make new discoveries around their Jubilee field in Ghana. Tullow said in a statement its…