Essen has been designated European Capital of Culture for 2010

Essen, representing the entire Ruhr region, has been designated European Capital of Culture for 2010. The “Ruhr metropolis” comprises 53 districts and is an example of a region in transformation with a breathtaking cultural diversity and authenticity that is unique in Europe.

• http://www.ruhr2010.de/

Germany-South Africa: Let's stay Friends - From 2006 to 2010 and beyond

A new special website is dedicated to showcase the support Germany gives to football projects in South Africa. Germany and South Africa have enjoyed a close partnership for many years. With this in mind, it is no surprise that Germany and South Africa, as consecutive hosts of FIFA Football World Cups, also work closely together in this area.

The site, in English and German, also offers useful information to all visitors and international football fans about the event and its host country. The FIFA Football World Cup 2010  will show the world a new, more dynamic face of Africa.

• www.germany-southafrica-football.diplo.de

German Bundesliga

All the top news from the German Bundesliga at a glance: fixtures, results, clubs, players and much more.

• www.bundesliga.de

German Information Centre Pretoria brings Germany to Africa

Meet modern Germany, be informed and enjoy stories about Germany and Africa. The German Information Centre Pretoria (GIC) is online under www.germanyandafrica.diplo.de. To stay updated you can subscribe to the GIC RSS-feeds or the newsletter or join the GIC fans on Facebook.

• German Information Centre Pretoria

Jubilee Publication marking 50 years of Ghanaian-German Relations

50 years of Ghanaian-German Relations are not only documented by official visits of Head of States or trade statistics. Browse through this unique selection of stories from 50 (and more!) years of relations with all its facettes. Find out more about kings, explorers and doctors, drummers and dancers, little children and wise old men, myths and solid facts, colonies and big politics, missionaries and slaves, education and co-operation, monkeys and spiders, and of course, about the stars on the small and on the big balls!

• to the Jubilee Publication

German Business Portal

supports your business with Germany. It offers answers to all trade-related questions and concerns and facilitates crossborder trade in the field of goods and services – from work permit to customs duty. All information is provided in English straight to your desktop at

• www.german-business-portal.info

YOUNG GERMANY - Your career, education and lifestyle guide

Check out our collection of films on the Web’s biggest video Website: From our Editor’s trip flying in a two-seater plane over the Rhine and Mosel valley, to conversation snippets of foreign students talking about their lives in Germany – there’s plenty to see!

• YOUNG GERMANY on Youtube

Partnership with Africa - an initiative of the Federal President in cooperation with the Zeit-foundation

“What I want to do is raise awareness that we are all part of the human family, that we inhabit one and the same world and are all dependent upon one another. And yes, there is a moral dimension, too, I want to highlight the need for a global ethic. I believe we need to discuss issues of social justice more and more in a global and not merely a national context."

Interview given by Federal President Köhler

• www.partnerschaft-mit-afrika.de

German National Tourist Board (DZT)

Tourist information on holidaying in Germany, conference venues, shopping or ideas for young people: consult the German National Tourist Board website for all this – and much, much more!

• www.germany-tourism.de

Important Internet addresses

• Federal Foreign Office
• deutschland.de - Portal to Germany
• Media Corner
• Ghana Embassy in Berlin
• German institutions in Ghana
• Link zur Initiative "Partnerschaft mit Afrika"

The Ambassador

Dr. Marius Haas

• Welcome Message
• Curriculum vitae