when did Ghana become independent?
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Ghana became independent from the British on March 6, 1957.\n\nIt was the first Sub- Saharan African country to gain independence. Kwame Nkrumah  was the first president and founder of the Modern state.\n\n\nHere are some links to more facts about Ghana and it's independence...\n\nI hope they help :-)
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No they were involved in the outer space treaty which forbids military use of space. Ghana is also an exelent equatorial launching site. So they may well be involved in space in the future. They signed the treaty in Moscow -  01/16/1989
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Mozambique joined the Commonwealth in 1995. One of the reasons being that at the time it was surrounded by Commonwealth members (this is no longer true as Zimbabwe isn't in the Commonealth anymore) and much or its tradea nd business was done with members of the commonwealth. Also the Commonwealth provides assistance in many areas, which mozmabique has been able to take advangtage of. It is an interesting anomoly though but there must be something in it as Cameroon and Namibia have also joined the commonwealth and were never British colonies (in the full sense).
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This is a trick question.\n\nAustralia became independent in 1901.\n\nSo, they were subject to the laws of Great Britain before then. Australia did not make their own laws until 1901.
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The Netherlands declared itself independent from Spain on\nJuly 26, 1581. Spain didn't grant them independence until January 30, 1648.
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8\n\n1-Angola\n2-Cote d'Ivoire\n3-Czech Republic (Replaced Czechoslovakia)\n4-Ghana\n5-Serbia & Montenegro (Succeeded Yugoslavia but no more\n             since  June  5, 2006)\n6-Togo\n7-Trinidad & Tobago\n8-Ukraine (One of the countries from the former USSR)
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Both.  Ghandi picked the perfect time to start his independence movement.  Empires around the world were crumbling after WW2 and the British empire was no exception.
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Cameroon, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea
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There are many answers to this question, there are several countries in the America's.  However most of the time when you say America you mean the United States and again there are lots of different answers.  We fired the Shot heard around the world in April, 1775.  We Declared our Independence in July, 1776.  Our Revolution was won in 1781, our current government started in 1789.  However throughout the America's there had been great Civilizations Built and around for many years before the White man came to America.  Columbus Came in 1492, the Vikings came about 400 years before and the Phonecians very probably visited the America's about 3,000 years ago.  The earliest City founded still around is St. Augustine, Florida settled by the Spainish.  The earliest English settlement was Jamestown, Virginia settled in 1607.  The Pilgrims came in 1620 and so forth.  There are many different answers to your question as you asked it, I hope that one of these is what you needed.
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Independency was declared on September 7th, 1822.
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Independence of Yemen (Sana) from Ottoman Empire was Oct  30 1918  \nIndependence of Yemen (Aden) from Britain (People's Republic of South Yemen) was  Nov 30  1967\nUnification as Republic of Yemen May  22 1990
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The Italians have been in northeast, central and south Somalia, first as colonial power and then as UN administrator till 1961. The Brits had the northwest as proctectorate, called Somaliland, also till 1961, althought Somaliland became independent five days before the Italian administered part of Somalia received its independence. Somaliland issued a unilateral declaration of independence in 1991, and is now known as the Republic of Somaliland.
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The UK annexed Southern Rhodesia from the [British] South Africa Company in 1923. A 1961 constitution was formulated that favored whites in power. In 1965 the government unilaterally declared its independence, but the UK did not recognize the act and demanded more complete voting rights for the black African majority in the country (then called Rhodesia). UN sanctions and a guerrilla uprising finally led to free elections in 1979 and independence (as Zimbabwe) in 1980. Robert MUGABE, the nation's first prime minister, has been the country's only ruler (as president since 1987) and has dominated the country's political system since independence. His chaotic land redistribution campaign, which began in 2000, caused an exodus of white farmers, crippled the economy, and ushered in widespread shortages of basic commodities. Ignoring international condemnation, MUGABE rigged the 2002 presidential election to ensure his reelection. Opposition and labor strikes in 2003 were unsuccessful in pressuring MUGABE to retire early; security forces continued their brutal repression of regime opponents. The ruling ZANU-PF party used fraud and intimidation to win a two-thirds majority in the March 2005 parliamentary election, allowing it to amend the constitution at will and recreate the Senate, which had been abolished in the late 1980s. In April 2005, Harare embarked on Operation Restore Order, ostensibly an urban rationalization program, which resulted in the destruction of the homes or businesses of 700,000 mostly poor supporters of the opposition, according to UN estimates.
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On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed. It is known as the day that America was officially an independent nation. Before this date America was under the rule of Britain.
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Kwame Nkrumah\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nJump to: navigation, search\nKwame Nkrumah (September 21, 1909 – April 27, 1972) was an African anti-colonial leader, founder and first president of the modern Ghanaian state and one of the most influential Pan-Africanists of the 20th century.\n\nEarly life and education\nHe was born in Nkroful, Gold Coast (Ghana) as Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma. Educated at Achimota School, Accra and the Roman Catholic Seminary, Amisano, he taught at the Catholic school in Axim. In 1935 he left Africa for the USA, receiving a BA from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1939. He also earned a Masters of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942 and a Masters of Arts in Philosophy the following year. While lecturing in Political Science at Lincoln he was elected president of the African Students Organization of America and Canada.\nDuring his time in the United States, Nkrumah visited and preached in black Presbyterian Churches in Philadelphia and New York City. He read books about politics and divinity. He encountered the ideas of Marcus Garvey. He also tutored other students in philosophy.\nHe arrived in London in 1945 intending to study at the LSE. But following a meeting with George Padmore he helped to organise the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England. After that he began to work for the decolonisation of Africa and became Vice-President of West African Students Union.\n\nReturn to Africa\nIn the autumn of 1947, Nkrumah was invited to serve as the General Secretary to the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) under Joseph B. Danquah. This political convention was exploring paths to independence. Nkrumah accepted the position and set sail for the Gold Coast. After brief stops in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast, he arrived in the Gold Coast in December 1947.\nIn February 1948 police fired upon a protest by African ex-servicemen who were protesting the rapidly rising cost of living. The shooting spurred a series of rioting in Accra, Kumasi and other towns. The government suspected the UGCC was behind the protests and therefore arrested Nkrumah and other leading members of the party. Realizing their error, the British soon released the convention leaders. So it was that Nkrumah was unjustly imprisoned by the colonial government and emerged as hero and leader of the youth movement in 1948.\nAfter his release, Nkrumah began to hitchhike around the countryside. In community after community he proclaimed that the Gold Coast needed "self-government now." He built an impressive power base. The cocoa farmers rallied to his cause because they disagreed with British policy concerning the containment of swollen shoot disease. He appealed to women to be a part of the political process at a time when women’s suffrage was new to Western Democracy. The Unions also allied with his movement. By 1949, he had organized these groups into a new political party called The Convention People’s Party.\nNot wanting to be held responsible for storm and stress within the Gold Coast, the British called for the drafting of a New Constitution that made Africans more responsible for policy decisions. Under the New Constitution, drawn up by a commission of middle class Africans, men of education and property would control the parliament. Nkrumah called his own “People’s Assembly” composed of representatives of party members, youth organizations, trade unions, farmers, and veterans. Their proposals called for universal franchise without property qualifications, a separate house of chiefs, a responsible cabinet, and self-governing status under the Statute of Westminster. These amendments, known as the Constitutional Proposals of October 1949, were rejected by the Colonial Administration.\nThe Colonial Administration’s rejection of the People’s Assembly’s recommendations led directly to Nkrumah’s call for “Positive Action” in January 1950. Positiv
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Only one: in Hawaii, which used to be an independent kingdom.
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Economy - overview:   \nWell endowed with natural resources, Ghana has roughly twice the per capita output of the poorer countries in West Africa. Even so, Ghana remains heavily dependent on international financial and technical assistance. Gold, timber, and cocoa production are major sources of foreign exchange. The domestic economy continues to revolve around subsistence agriculture, which accounts for 34% of GDP and employs 60% of the work force, mainly small landholders. Ghana opted for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) program in 2002, but was included in a G8 debt relief program decided upon at the Gleneagles Summit in July 2005. Priorities under its current $38 million PRGF include tighter monetary and fiscal policies, accelerated privatization, and improvement of social services. Receipts from the gold sector helped sustain GDP growth in 2005 along with record high prices for Ghana's largest cocoa crop to date. Inflation should ease, but remain a major internal problem. Ghana also remains a candidate country to benefit from Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) funding that could assist in transforming Ghana's agricultural export sector. A final decision on its MCC bid is expected for spring 2006.  \nGDP (purchasing power parity):    \n$51.8 billion (2005 est.)  \nGDP (official exchange rate):    \n$9.464 billion (2005 est.)  \nGDP - real growth rate:    \n4.3% (2005 est.)  \nGDP - per capita:    \npurchasing power parity - $2,500 (2005 est.)  \nGDP - composition by sector:   \nagriculture: 35.5% \nindustry: 25.6% \nservices: 39% (2005 est.)  \nLabor force:    \n10.62 million (2005 est.)  \nLabor force - by occupation:   \nagriculture 60%, industry 15%, services 25% (1999 est.)  \nUnemployment rate:    \n20% (1997 est.)  \nPopulation below poverty line:   \n31.4% (1992 est.)  \nHousehold income or consumption by percentage share:   \nlowest 10%: 2.2% \nhighest 10%: 30.1% (1999)  \nDistribution of family income - Gini index:   \n30 (1999)  \nInflation rate (consumer prices):    \n15% (2005 est.)  \nInvestment (gross fixed):    \n24.6% of GDP (2005 est.)  \nBudget:   \nrevenues: $3.216 billion \nexpenditures: $3.506 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (2005 est.)  \nPublic debt:    \n80.1% of GDP (2005 est.)  \nAgriculture - products:   \ncocoa, rice, coffee, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, corn, shea nuts, bananas; timber  \nIndustries:   \nmining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting, food processing, cement, small commercial ship building  \nIndustrial production growth rate:    \n3.8% (2000 est.)  \nElectricity - production:    \n5.356 billion kWh (2003)  \nElectricity - consumption:    \n5.081 billion kWh (2003)  \nElectricity - exports:   \n400 million kWh (2003)  \nElectricity - imports:   \n500 million kWh (2003)  \nOil - production:    \n7,433 bbl/day (2003 est.)  \nOil - consumption:    \n39,000 bbl/day (2003 est.)  \nOil - exports:    \nNA (2001)  \nOil - imports:    \nNA (2001)  \nOil - proved reserves:    \n8.255 million bbl (1 January 2002)  \nNatural gas - proved reserves:    \n11.89 billion cu m (1 January 2002)  \nCurrent account balance:    \n$57 million (2005 est.)  \nExports:    \n$2.911 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)  \nExports - partners:   \nNetherlands 12.3%, UK 10%, France 6.9%, US 6.4%, Belgium 4.7%, Germany 4.6%, Japan 4.2% (2004)  \nImports:    \n$4.273 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)  \nImports - partners:   \nNigeria 12.6%, China 11.4%, UK 6.6%, US 6.4%, France 4.9%, Netherlands 4.2% (2004)  \nReserves of foreign exchange and gold:    \n$1.732 billion (2005 est.)  \nDebt - external:    \n$7.084 billion (2005 est.)  \nEconomic aid - recipient:   \n$6.9 billion (1999)  \nCurrency (code):   \ncedi (GHC)  \nExchange rates:   \ncedis per US dollar - 9,127.42 (2005), 9,004.6 (2004), 8,677.4 (2003), 7,932.7 (2002), 7,170.8 (2001)  \nFiscal year:   \ncalendar year