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CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Ghana’s oil -- blessing or curse?
Broadband: BBC calls for market ’intervention’
Yemen steps, uneasy, from past to future
*Public Health*
Callbacks on the cell phone cancer story
*Water*
Virtual water and real thirst
TOP STORIES
* Ghana’s Oil -- Blessing or Curse?
With the discovery that Ghana is sitting atop an estimated three billion barrels of oil, the impoverished West African nation is facing not just a flood of new wealth, but also its potential "undoing."
So said President John Kufuor at an extractive industries forum in March. His words echo widespread concerns that the unrelenting poverty and cor...
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