The Gold Coast was a British Crown Colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africafrom 1821 until its independence in 1957. The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the administration of the Governor of the Gold Coast. Which Afri...
and another one of those “I’ve never even heard of that country” group. First colonised by Portugal way back in the 15th century, prior to which they were both uninhabited , it’s been independent since 1975, and democratic since 1991. It has a population of just 170,000 and they ...
However, there have been some recent optimistic signs that the Togolese Government might be willing to accede to the Rome Statute soon [source] Togo's first democratically elected president, Sylvano Olympius, was overthrown in 1963. He was shot and killed by Sgt. Etienne Eyadema while he ...
Congo and Burundi were colonised by Belgium, and Ghana was ruled by the United Kingdom. "Actually, Ghana is maybe the only example in that list [that] doesn’t have anything to do with Francophonie, and has a level of development far above the rest," says Reboul. Middle income countries...
"The wisdom then as it remains today is that it causes upheaval of seismic proportions to attempt to tinker with established boundaries. Kenya reiterates our support for and commitment to resolving boarder disputes." MARRAKECH CONFERENCE Initially colonised by the Spanish, Western Sahara was initi...
In fact, it’s considered the oldest Polynesian culture that dates back 3,000 years ago from the first migrant who came from Southeast Asia and landed on Papua New Guinea who then colonised the Pacific. But due to its US ties, it is a lot more developed that most countries in the ...
"In fact it was the shoes the rebels wore when fighting the invading forces; they kept Ethiopia as the only African country not to have been colonised," she added. Unlike the generation just before her, Bethlehem never felt the need to leave her country. She was still a child when the ...
Sadly, traditional approaches of breeding crop plants with improved abiotic stress resistance have met limited success so far. Failures were due to two problem areas, lack of easy to detect traits and too many genes that had to be transferred at a time. These arguments underline the advantage ...
Capital city – N’Djamena Climate – Tropical with a wet season that lasts from May to October. History – Some of the most important African archaeological sites are found in Chad, some date to earlier than 2000 BC. In the early 1900s Chad was colonised by France. Independence was ...
Twenty-four patients in French Polynesia were either colonised (19; 80%) or infected (5; 20%) with A. baumannii. This bacterium was linked to pneumonia, skin and soft tissue, surgical site or blood stream infections. The isolates were resistant to all beta-lactams and 20 (83% 20/24) ...