RE: Young as 6 raped by troops in Congo who fled M23
May 26, 2013 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2013 at 9:07 am by festive1.)
Ghana doesn't even border Mali. It's bordered by the Ivory Coast, Togo, and Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso, to the north of Ghana, does border Mali. However, proximity to a country at war, means nothing, except perhaps increased border security.
The elections are being contested by the opposition party in Ghanaian courts. However, international observers consider the elections to be free and fair.
Protests do not necessarily mean a country is going to spiral into all out civil war. I'm in DC, and there are protests quite frequently, none of which have led to the downfall of our democracy. In fact, protests often don't occur in tightly controlled regimes because the government brutally puts them down. Protesting is an exercise in civil liberty. People in Ghana don't fear their government killing them for speaking out against certain policies... That's a GOOD thing for democracy, not a first step to civil war or general unrest.
Ghana's size has nothing to do with it. However, Ghana is about the size of the United Kingdom, a bit smaller than the state of Oregon, quite larger than the state of Rhode Island. It also has a population of about 26 million.
Freedom House, an independent democracy monitoring think-tank, does rankings every year of all the world's countries. They measure democracy in terms of political rights and civil liberties. They also report on how free the press is within each of these countries. Ghana's 2013 ranking: a 1 for political rights and a 2 for civil liberties. This is on a scale of 1-7, where 1 is the most free and 7 the least. Here's a link to their report, it's arranged alphabetically, and you can clearly see that Ghana fared better than Greece who got a 2,2 scoring. http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/defaul...0Web_1.pdf
Ghana's press was also declared free by Freedom House, thus making Ghana a very good example of freedom and democracy on the continent.
P.S. It is clear to me that you either A: don't know anything about what you are attempting to discuss or B: are trolling. It is not possible to engage in a rational discussion where one party wildly misconstrues basic facts (ie: Ghana being at civil war because there was a riot or protests, Ghana being the size of Rhode Island, Ghana bordering Mali, etc.). Either make assertions, with viable evidence to back them up, or I'm not going to engage with this anymore.
The elections are being contested by the opposition party in Ghanaian courts. However, international observers consider the elections to be free and fair.
Protests do not necessarily mean a country is going to spiral into all out civil war. I'm in DC, and there are protests quite frequently, none of which have led to the downfall of our democracy. In fact, protests often don't occur in tightly controlled regimes because the government brutally puts them down. Protesting is an exercise in civil liberty. People in Ghana don't fear their government killing them for speaking out against certain policies... That's a GOOD thing for democracy, not a first step to civil war or general unrest.
Ghana's size has nothing to do with it. However, Ghana is about the size of the United Kingdom, a bit smaller than the state of Oregon, quite larger than the state of Rhode Island. It also has a population of about 26 million.
Freedom House, an independent democracy monitoring think-tank, does rankings every year of all the world's countries. They measure democracy in terms of political rights and civil liberties. They also report on how free the press is within each of these countries. Ghana's 2013 ranking: a 1 for political rights and a 2 for civil liberties. This is on a scale of 1-7, where 1 is the most free and 7 the least. Here's a link to their report, it's arranged alphabetically, and you can clearly see that Ghana fared better than Greece who got a 2,2 scoring. http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/defaul...0Web_1.pdf
Ghana's press was also declared free by Freedom House, thus making Ghana a very good example of freedom and democracy on the continent.
P.S. It is clear to me that you either A: don't know anything about what you are attempting to discuss or B: are trolling. It is not possible to engage in a rational discussion where one party wildly misconstrues basic facts (ie: Ghana being at civil war because there was a riot or protests, Ghana being the size of Rhode Island, Ghana bordering Mali, etc.). Either make assertions, with viable evidence to back them up, or I'm not going to engage with this anymore.
