Nairobi/Accra  - Ghanaians in a remote farming region were set Friday to decide who will be the West African nation's next president despite attempts by the ruling party to have the vote postponed.

The constituency of Tain, which has just over 50,000 registered voters, could not complete its vote in Sunday's presidential run-off election after problems distributing the ballots.

John Atta Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) holds a 23,055-vote lead over Nana Akufo-Addo of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), meaning that the constituency has the power to decide who wins.

Atta Mills won Tain in the inconclusive first round in early December with 16,211 votes to 14,935 for Akufo-Addo.

Nairobi/Accra - Thousands of supporters of Ghana's opposition candidate John Atta Mills gathered outside the offices of the electoral commission Tuesday as the body prepared to announce the results of the presidential run-off election.

Partial results from the electoral commission put Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on 52.17 per cent of the vote versus 47.9 per cent for Nana Akufo-Addo of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) with 200 out of 230 constituencies counted.

Local media have projected a win for Atta Mills, who has already claimed victory. The NPP said that Atta Mills was claiming victory prematurely.

Nairobi/Accra  - Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) edged ahead in presidential elections Monday morning as results from across the West African nation trickled in.

Early results from 18 constituencies showed that Nana Akufo-Addo had around 53 per cent of the vote, compared to 44 per cent for his main opponent, John Evans Atta Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The other six candidates were, as expected, out of the race.

However, only a small percentage of the votes have been counted. Full results were expected within the next 60 hours.

Rome/Accra - Africa could be taking more carbon out of the atmosphere that it releases, thus helping to counter the effect of greenhouse emissions on global warning, a UN agency said Tuesday.

The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is basing its observations on a research project, CarboAfrica involving 15 institutions from Africa and Europe, including FAO.

Nairobi/Accra - Faster progress must be made in giving developing countries greater responsibility for spending international aid, participants at a conference aimed at improving aid effectiveness said Thursday.

The Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, which began Tuesday, follows on from a 2005 meeting in Paris, where over 100 countries and agencies signed up to the Paris Declaration.

Signatories committed themselves to improving the delivery and use of aid by 2010.

Participants at a roundtable in Accra said in a statement that progress since Paris had been slow and called on donor nations to move away from imposing unilateral conditions for spending aid and focus instead on accountability.

Accra - The World Wildlife Fund Wednesday said that some progress had been made at week-long United Nations climate change talks concluding in Ghanian capital Accra.

"Governments managed to push their critical discussions closer to conclusions on some key issues," the WWF said in a statement.

"Strategies are shaping up to reduce CO2 emissions from the destruction of forests, and talks about financing deep emission cuts and adaptation to climate impacts gain clarity."