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| First time users, click "Register" on top right to register, confirm registration through your email. Read more... |
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Union Activities |
Summer recess - no union activities |
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Other Events |
The SAAS Africa
Challenge League
Final match
Taifa Stars of Tanzania
vrs
Harambee Stars of Kenya
Place: Mälarhöjdens IP (T-bana Fruangen)
Date: Saturday, July 31
All are invited to this inaugural event |
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Banks Exchange Rates |
Monday July, 26th |
Currency |
Buying(¢) |
Selling(¢) |
| USD |
1.4258 |
1.4478 |
| Sterling |
2.2060 |
2.2405 |
| Euro |
1.8437 |
1.8718 |
| SEK |
0.1950 |
0.1976 |
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Forex Bureau Rates |
| USD |
1.4364 |
1.4630 |
| Sterling |
2.1514 |
2.2318 |
| Euro |
1.8032 |
1.8664 |
Source: Bank of Ghana |
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Swedish Forex Bank Rates |
Currency |
Buy (kr) |
Sell (kr) |
| USD |
6.9525 |
7.6009 |
| Sterling |
10.8883 |
11.7992 |
| Euro |
9.052 |
9.8018 |
Source: Forex Bank, Sweden
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| Dlink transfers suspended: The Dlink money transfer has been suspended as from July 23rd. New changes are in the offing and negotiations are currently being made to that effect. The services will be brought back as soon as all things are completed. Meanwhile, the site has ceased to function for money transfers. |
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Northern Ghana: Farmers wail over wasting rice, maize: There is intense anxiety amongst rice farmers in the Northern Region as they are plagued by a myriad of problems.
According to the farmers, not only is a government offered price for their last year’s produce inadequate, but the lack of tractors to plough the farms is an even more debilitating headache, placing their business in a rather precarious situation.
The government has been touting its credentials in the area of agriculture. Read more...
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Rice farmers in Northern Ghana are complaining of problems in their occupation |
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| Life in rural Burundi: ON A chill windy morning in the mountains of Burundi, six women in an “empowerment group” run by an Atlanta-based charity, CARE, sit down under a tree to talk about their day. They have 49 living children between them. Their village, Dihetu, is nondescript, the soil average. The women grow cassava, beans and bananas.
Marie-José, aged 42, has ten children. She wakes up at six o’clock and cleans the hut. At half past six she makes tea for the children who go to school in the morning. She is in the fields from seven. Read the rest... |
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| Vaginal gel cuts HIV-infections by half:
A vaginal gel has significantly cut the rate of women contracting HIV from infected partners in an experiment in South Africa. Researchers say the gel, containing Aids drug tenofovir, cut infection rates among 889 women by 50% after one year of use, and by 39% after two and a half years.
If the results are confirmed it would be the first time that a microbicidal gel has been shown to be effective. Read more... |
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Researchers in South Africa say the vaginal gel cut HIV-infection rates by 50 per cent after one year of use |
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| Early HIV treatment will save lives and money:
HIV-related deaths could be reduced by 20% over the next five years if treatment begins earlier, the World Health Organisation says in fresh guidance.
There were over 5m people receiving treatment for the virus at the end of 2009, up more than a million from 2008 - the largest ever increase in a year.
The guidelines would raise the number needing treatment to 15m by 2015. Read more... |
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The WHO wants treatment to begin even before a patient feels ill |
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| Black Stars move up nine places in ranking but still not best in Africa: Ghana's Black Stars have moved up nine places to 23 on Fifa's latest team ranking.
The Stars got as far as the quarter finals at the tournament and only lost out on a semi-final berth on penalties. Egypt is still the top team on the continent according to the ranking and Ivory Coast are placed third. Read more... |
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Black Stars move nine places up Fifa's ranking to 23rd in the world |
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FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
Germany 2010
13 July - 01 August
Semi-finals
Germany 0-0 Korea Rep
(29/07 - 15:30)
Colombia 0-0 Nigeria
(29/07 - 18:30)
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