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ACCRA Air Jordan Retro For Sale Womens , Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Isolated and uncoordinated shootingincidents across Ghana have claimed innocent lives, stoking fearsthe West African country could be heading for bigger troubles.


While some of these shootings are purely accidental, others havecome from armed robbers and serial killers who have shot and maimedor killed their victims.


A recent incident was between Richard Yaw Boadi, a 32-year-oldmechanic and Nana Frimpong in front of a garage at Alajo, a suburbof Accra.


Frimpong, who had apparently obstructed vehicle movements at agarage Air Jordan Shoes For Sale Womens , had been asked by Boadi to park properly to make room forother vehicles.


However, Frimpong refused and fired a gun that hit Boadi in thestomach. Boadi died two days later after being hospitalized.


The number of such incidents is increasing and causing headachesfor the country's Small Arms Commission that has sought to controlthe proliferation of small arms in the hands of individuals.


Programs Director at the Commission, Johnson Asante Twum, whilecommenting on the issue, explained that individuals needed to gothrough "a certain regime that will tell him or her when and how touse that weapon."


"As it is now, if they just check your background and you passper whatever criteria that you don't have any history of violence Air Jordan For Sale Womens ,not a temperamental person and all that, the police will have noreason to deny you," He told local radio network, Joy FMrecently.


Twum insisted that further checks ought to be instituted toensure that individuals who applied for arms were screenedproperly.


He suggested that tighter measures be put in place to ensurethat illegal small arms are removed from the system, as they pose aserious threat to the security of the country.


Last year, before the general election on December 7 Jordan Retro For Sale Womens , Ghanaintroduced tighter measures to check the proliferation of weaponsin the country.


The ministry of the Interior, in collaboration with the SmallArms Commission, offered amnesty to all people who want toregularize their ownership of small arms to voluntarily registertheir weapons.


Then Minister for the Interior Prosper Bani announced at a pressconference that after the 32-day amnesty period which began fromAugust 22, anyone found in possession of illicit weapon would facethe full rigors of the law.


In Ghana, it is unlawful to possess weapons without policelicense and offenders face a sentence of a minimum of 10 years. Butthe number of people in possession of small arms in the WestAfrican country is alarmingly high.


It is estimated that there are 2.3 million weapons in civilianhands in Ghana, among which only 1.2 million have beenregistered.


The number of illegal firearms in wrong hands means that forGhana's 27 million people Jordan Shoes For Sale Womens , the ratio of illegal arms to thepopulation hits a worrisome 1:25.


The Ghanaian authorities last year burnt some 1,300 range ofillicit locally manufactured weapons seized across the country, aspart of activities to mark the United Nations International Day fordestruction of weapons.


Local media reported early this year the Chinese Ambassador toGhana, Sun Baohong, presented modern security equipment worth over280,000 U.S. dollars to Ghana's parliament. These comprise threeX-ray scanners Air Jordan Retro For Sale Websites , three sets of walk-through metal detectors, 100sets of hand held metal detectors, and a human body securitydetector.


Sun said the equipment was expected to enhance the securityfeatures of Ghana's legislature, obviously in the light of theincreasing threat of terrorism across the globe.


The Chinese donation has come at just the right time when thethreat of terrorism is said to be looming in Ghana, as indicated bywarnings by the Canadian, UK and U.S. embassies in Ghana.


Attacks by armed robbers and highwaymen and acts of serialkillings in Ghana's recent history must be a wake-up call togovernment to step up its fight against small arms in wrong hands.Enditem


BEIJING Air Jordan Shoes For Sale Websites , Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Air passengers in China had a particularly frustrating month as only half of the July's flights were on time, mainly due to extreme weather conditions, the civil aviation authority said Tuesday.


Of the 448,370 civil flights in July, only 50.76 percent operated on schedule, data from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) showed.


Zhang Chunzhi Air Jordan For Sale Websites , an official with the CAAC, told a press briefing that 58.6 percent of the flight delays were caused by bad weather.


Many parts of China witnessed more thunderstorms than usual in July, she said, noting that airports in the cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Kunming experienced thunderstorms on more than 10 days.


Meanwhile Jordan Retro For Sale Websites , China was affected by five typhoons during the past month, which disrupted air traffic in the country's coastal regions, Zhang said.


A total of 312 million passenger trips were made via planes in the first seven months of this year, up 13.2 percent year on year, according to the CAAC.






WELLINGTON， Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's manufacturing sales rebounded in the quarter to the end of June， lifted by a surge in meat and dairy products， the government statistics agency said Wednesday.


The volume of total manufacturing sales rose 2.8 percent from the March quarter， with meat and dairy product manufacturing volumes rising 8.6 percent， according to Statistics New Zealand.


"This quarter's large rise in meat and dairy manufacturing sales followed a sizable fall in the March 2016 quarter，" business indicators manager Tehseen Islam said.


"Despite some large movements in recent quarters， the sales volumes for meat and dairy have increased just slightly from where they were in early 2014，" Islam said.


"This contrasts with the sales values， which have dropped significantly since then， mainly due to falling dairy prices."

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