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July 14, 2006
Blanket Coverage
The announcement came down in a press release from America yesterday: The U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation and the government of Ghana are set to ink a $547 million aid deal on Aug. 1. How this money gets spent is the topic of much of my reporting here so far, and there are many fights in parliament and elsewhere over where it will and won't go.
But here is the story as reported by the Ghanaian Chronicle. Many other papers carried similar accounts. Here's the press release for comparison's sake.
Observe the number of sentences beginning "It noted" or "It continued" or "It further noted." Every average Ghanaian who I asked about this project had heard of it -- it was a hot topic. But no mention of controversy here.
Posted by Adam Graham-Silverman at July 14, 2006 02:45 PM