in a valley has been arrested after meeting his supporters in the capitol police but also the opposition activist to cancel that event a few well as before it took place quoting two of all his supporters when he still went ahead with the meeting police came in and cut off the generators on the station of only was speaking from that in a way he has previously had seventy three similar events way met with his supporters and the mare lections coming up on september the eighth. but to bring you up to date for the moment i'll be back with the news team with wolf in just about next the price one african nation is paying turning a few heads at the international monetary fund of the brain.

they say geo politics is a lot like a schoolyard and while obama snubbing a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stoughton incident sounds kind of amateur that is the kind of stuff the girl you did when you're sixteen would do cancel a date just to show you how much your feelings are hurt let's not mistake the canceled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really sent a bold and possibly dangerous but a message but obama did was more like a minor annoyance he knows that he will talk to putin again in the near future i mean how are they not going to talk in the next g. eight summit what is he just going to have to hide behind merkel the whole time and hope it works out or ducked behind the short cocktail whatever here's a russian accent one could argue that to appease republicans he had to do something to look strong after the student body but this grandstanding just comes across as silly passing something like a new jackson verda commandment yeah that is how you could shows people that you're really mad even if your anger is irrational because stone pretty much did the right thing. but that's just my opinion.

in the beginning of two thousand and thirteen the capital of ghana was named africa's fastest growing city. proof of this where the dozens of cranes dotting the horizon satisfying the demand for new modern offices for both local companies and banks and multinationals. expensive cars roaming the streets. shiny moles for filling the consumer dreams of the capital's affluent people. again as economy is thriving. the country is among the world's fastest growing economies and is africa's number

one and growth rates. for the i.m.f. ghana is a success story. the police have been successful. the rule of the i.m.f. is really to advise on micro police she's so weak we do not we do not construct bridges and develop infrastructure but come of my quest ability clearly over the last. few years have done quite well in terms of generating an environment of macroeconomic stability which is necessary to have investment and growth and job creation. ghana's current economic success could not have been accomplished without the newly received loans the last loan agreement between ghana and the i.m.f.

was in two thousand and nine for the sum of six hundred two million dollars at that time the country experienced some fiscal slippage is and depletion of its international reserves which was a combination of increased public spending but also. the side effect of the global financial crisis so we had the reduction of reserve of the central bank the increase of the deficit there was a need to. provide some financing. to crises and had to authorities. to make a balance of. ghana's dept exploded to a new record high reaching fourteen point six billion dollars we talk about credit facilities as if it doesn't have to be paid back but our children our grandchildren will have to pay it and i think it's almost like selling the family silver. you can

get it back. finance lead economic management has been they. and their religion of african rulers and. so forth and every so-called group is seen as a success which therefore should feed that process even. one of the fastest growing economies not just in africa but in the world last year. one of the effects of that is that you would think that if economies growing. independent space. and resources to invest in the things that it needs to you know transform its economy and transform the conditions of these people i mean that it was what any logical thinking would be however in our case that is not what has happened.

in. the. room. after finishing her chores in the morning comfortable cutty prepares her grandchildren for school she is a primary school teacher at paga a small agricultural community in northeastern ghana. was.

this is the primary school every tree. is a cost for a bear or two hundred ninety one children studying here while. i am. many of them have to walk at least five kilometers to get here i was a little was there. was. the second largest gold producer in africa cannot provide classrooms to sauza as of children. in ghana four thousand schools have no facilities the lessons like here take place under the trees i. believe it would do house structure. we are teaching under three s. and because of that there is no effective teaching and leno on especially when ever

it is threatening to rain we have to run home and wended the trees sharing the same problem there wouldn't be snow. not being effective teaching and then in the course of the sun when it is hot that you reckon i'll feel confortable to listen and to check on will also feel comfortable to teach. me. no toilets no play materials. and other infrastructure. so decided problems for f.e.c. into school and i'm not a problem as what a problem. we don't have what. so nominal go about three kilometers or four clinton's full put up will drink the water and when it's it is bolted to school there are no reasonable continuous for us to store the. because of what

they did a government will always complain and promise but nothing has been. one of the i.m.f. conditions to sign the loan agreement of two thousand and nine was a cut in public sector spending ghana's education system has been affected dramatically. well. in order for the government to reach its goals for deficit reduction it decided to cut almost thirty one million euro from the education sector. in. the building of new classrooms of the silty is would have to wait. the government's absence is covered by the community members who raise money in order to build classrooms in any way they can. miss comfort was

a leader of this afeard and invested all her savings. really. i. want my. god who was after said it to mobilize. to help me with some money to put up a classroom i have used my own money in addition to this current amount that was contributed by the community members to put up one classroom block who was who i was. and now some of the. lemon in that one classroom and the other classes sitting under trees. yet. so whenever it is raining even if it is threaten to rain we dismiss

the children to. dr yunus once indeed. and then when it is more a much this nor should. we or god that one class of we can use in lots and thanks we falls to. the recruitment freeze in the public sector another one of the i.m.f. stipulations for signing the loan agreement had an instant impact on the quality of ghana's education system. according to the country's education department in order to cover the teacher shortage alone in primary schools thirty three thousand one hundred eighty five teachers are needed this is something that will never be approved but. you're. here in northern ghana there is one

trained teacher like comfort for every one hundred seventy. five students. i know you look at you. and again the inhabitants try to do whatever they can on their own they can teaching positions are covered by parents or volunteers. that are. here. and we have my own interesting problem with both sunday. paul and they come providing us chilling with nutritious food. when the mullah complain. and there is that ad. that's. this school and many. ended funds that these souls for education and.

it's not enough to cover all this they did they disclose that on the trees so dust that the good in some but you do inflicting it was gotten out and the owners promised to do it but definitely it come to help us. what do you think would be kind of prize for americans and the west in general to realize that big noting with violence is actually extremely counterproductive to the our own national interests whenever they're really in all there are laws intervene in any of the middle eastern countries be created all the create a fade state and went about it is a failed state this is the best place for actually i think a lot of guys asian to establish bases.

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more news today boylan says once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operations or rule the day. when i return home from school i read a little and then go to the river to get water then i go to the forest to gather

wood and then i cook. or have a lot of chores and can't study during the day i usually study at night. that i study with a flashlight because the community has no electricity. it's difficult studying that way. sometimes someone needs a flashlight and i have to wait until they finish. and that makes it difficult for me to study. and so i wish we had electricity's so i could study comfortably. in the future i want to become a useful person. i want to become a nurse. so

. citizens of the new state of god gather all the celebration marking their day of freedom from colonialism what was once the gold coast a british colony now becomes an independent commonwealth vice president and mrs nixon represent the united states at the three day festivities and native dances and games mark an event of historic importance since god becomes the first big role colony in africa the game its freedom. in

one thousand nine hundred fifty seven ghana game to its independence from the english ever since there has been a love hate relationship with the i.m.f. . from one thousand nine hundred sixty six five governments have received loans power has changed hands many times after so many coups. the first to approach the i.m.f. in one thousand nine hundred sixty five was ghana's first president and independence leader. as a marxist he was quick to reject the funds conditions he was overthrown a year later. but in many countries the red primate battle plan has prayer. and drama rama and brandon well i. would be appalled ruler about

a country. the national liberation council government that came to power signed the loan agreement with the i.m.f. and accepted the conditions. the economy made a spectacular rebound and at the same time product prices increased. but kick our exports did not yield the expected revenue in one nine hundred seventy one after the fun's recommendation the currency was devalued by forty six point eight percent there was a wage freeze and taxes were increased. a year later general a chum pong for through the government. the governmental general election. unilaterally. decided not

to pay the debts that's gonna government to the m.f. it was a little over ninety million dollars and. the general at the point took the position that it was something we couldn't see and we pushed for self-reliance. that was the message that he was giving to ghana and i think he made an impact unfortunately the price of oil hikes soon after that pushed us and back into economic decline and we ended up going back to the i'm there for a loan that was after the coup that threw a chump amount and it's an interesting paradigm that seems to be. an almost on holy think too good a time as. an economic downton's and then

a falling back on the i.m.f. as almost as a savior. to . drop africa in the one nine hundred ninety eight if you want you we had what you call i.m.f. rats which is the price of food going up as well as before and that kind of is the ability yes it has to be the backdrop to a lot of the one that affected many more reasons of course but the critical reason has been that that how to secure a growth model which you know if unifies the my joy section of the ruling class number one. which which reduces deflates the political expectation of the population number two. is also to tell people that your political expectations

about what you can get on a realistic you can get free education you can get public housing you can get a good pension from the public sector you have to go out in the market and fight for yourself. and if you look at our history. that the stratagems have been the scene it's about. devaluing the cd it's about. fiscal. restrictions it's about restricting the government's wage bill it's about privatization or divest investing in government factories these are the same things that they do time and again and i do wonder. whether if you keep doing the same thing over and over again and the country

doesn't move out of poverty if there isn't a need to rethink what you do well let me maybe qualify what you said and clarified. actually over the last decade what we've seen in africa and ships are in africa. is extremely encouraging in terms of microcosmic policies we can say that over the last decade micro policies in most of sub-saharan africa has improved. substantially with an emphasis on my quest ability and on generating what we called buffers.

i grew culture is one of ghana's most productive sectors. here in the north however it is the only way to survive. glenn doesn't give much. and we use the same old varieties our grandfathers did. and they don't really give a good harvest. women who brought to him only so many jewels come to help us. number but no government official has ever come to visit us. yeah. only the n.g.o.s teach us how to improve how to improve our methods. one doesn't

come to teach us. the ministry of agriculture used to provide us with fertilizers but now they have stopped. moving well now they never visit us like they used to. people i don't understand why the government isn't helping us. to welcome that. well that food sufficiency has its ups and downs. there are times of abundance and

times when there isn't enough food for the community. the periods of hunger along that is when the food prices hit the roof well. that is one mil it costs ten cd for you. this is a time of great hunger. government cutbacks would mean for example in the case of i could culture that all kinds of subsidies are research all extension services they all come and all those things affect everything becomes the market price the small farmer can i buy those things because i produce as well so for most of these farmers actually i really hope it turns out lead me into farmers some of the number. would have to do it in school

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