Ghana News
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Faith Lawson carefully backs a large silver pick-up truck through cones placed on the red soil of a military camp in Ghana's capital, Accra.As she checks her mirrors and slowly reverses, 14 young women standing in military formation look on.
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Europe's toughened borders are prompting migrants to switch focus to the United States, but their trek is being thwarted in Central America, where a bottleneck has formed, according to the International Organization for Migration.
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By AFP
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Ghana's presidential election will now be held on December 7, after parliament voted against an amendment to push the vote forward by one month, the electoral commission said on Friday.
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By AFP
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Nine people were killed in a stampede at a party in central Ghana to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a public official told reporters on Thursday.
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A group of girls in Ghana are training to become pilots, under the tutelage of a British man who started his school as a charity. But something insidious worms its way through this uplifting narrative.
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By AFP
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Security has been beefed up in Accra and Lome following a leaked intelligence report that indicated Islamist militants were likely to launch their next attacks in Ghana and Togo.
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By AFP
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At least 53 people died when a passenger bus collided with a truck carrying tomatoes on a Ghana highway, police said Thursday after one of the country's most deadly road disasters.
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By AFP
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Two Yemeni men transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Ghana are looking to rebuild their lives and are not out to avenge their detention, they said in an interview broadcast late Monday.
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By AFP
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Two Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred from the US military prison to Ghana, the Pentagon said Wednesday, bringing the controversial facility's remaining population down to 105.
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By AFP
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Ghana has suspended a trial for an Ebola vaccine after complaints that locals were being needlessly used as "guinea pigs" in a country currently free of the deadly disease.
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By AFP
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UN rights experts on Wednesday said Ghana had failed miserably to stamp out a centuries-old tradition in which virgin girls are offered as slaves to local priests for a lifetime.
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By AFP
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More than 150 people have died in a devastating petrol station blast during heavy flooding in Ghana's capital, prompting the nation's leader to call three days of national mourning over the "catastrophic" loss of life.
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By AFP
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At least 90 people were killed in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra, as they sought shelter from heavy rains that caused widespread flooding, emergency services said Thursday.
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In a match that provided very few scoring opportunities, Ghana snuck past host nation Canada at the National Soccer Stadium.
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The Algerian national football team has announced that it will donate the salary earned from the World Cup to the people of the Gaza Strip.
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In a widely open match between two counterattacking sides, there was no surprise that all three goals were created in wide areas.
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This February after a decade of negotiations the European Union (EU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) negotiators have agreed on the wording of a trade pact between the two groups.
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James Kwesi Appiah watched his side suffer a heartbreaking defeat against the USA despite dominating possession, and a tilt against Germany saw Ghana’s World Cup dreams hanging in the balance.
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Delta Airlines sent out a tweet last night with a picture that was supposed to represent Ghana. Unfortunately that picture was of a giraffe. Giraffes do not live anywhere in Ghana.
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Jurgen Klinsmann couldn’t ask for a better start when Clint Dempsey’s impressive individual goal handed the USA a lead over Ghana 32 seconds into their third consecutive World Cup match.
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While Americams are looking for free streaming of the match, the citizens of Ghana are hoping that the electricity will be flowing during the match, showing just how far apart the opponent home countries are.
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Over the past week, I’ve provided in-depth previews of the legitimate favourites heading into the World Cup, but the great thing about this sport is the element of surprise.
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By AFP
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Grey, sleek, bristling with massive cannon and an assortment of machine guns, the French navy's Commandant Birot is well-equipped to patrol Africa's most dangerous stretches of ocean.Vessels like it played a key role in curbing pirate attacks off the c...
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The Promoting Malaria Prevention and Treatment (ProMPT) Project has proposed a model for distributing over 12 million mosquito nets to prevent malaria in Ghana.
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‘Big Men’ is a black gold exposé that goes behind closed doors with key players in the African oil industry, including government officials, foreign investors and local militants.
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Ghanaian artist El Anatsui is enjoying his first solo exhibition at a New York Museum. His artwork is constructed from found materials, and offers a thoughtful commentary on his homeland as well as the cultural implications of reclaimed materials.
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Ghana has announced plans of a project to build a $10 billion IT hub close to the capital Accra. The project is scheduled to be finished by 2016.
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Ghana is enforcing a ban on the import of second-hand refrigerators it says consumes too much electricity and harms the environment.
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The government in Ghana has placed a ban on the import of secondhand refrigerators. This has been put in place in order to reduce energy consumption and to protect the environment.
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After more than two months of being held in the port of Tema, Ghana, the Argentine frigate “Libertad” was freed following the Ghanaian government's decision to comply with a UN court ruling ordering its immediate release.
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The city of Accra, Ghana michaelseangallagher
Detail from "Amemo (Mask of Humankind)", 2010. Aluminum and copper wire, 208 5/8 x 161 3/8 in. (variable) Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.
Members of the Ghana Black Stars wave their national flag on the pitch Dundas Football Club
A former slave fort in Keta, Ghana
John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (right) Roosewelt Pinheiro/ABr
The universal symbol of gay pride Creative Commons
El Anatsui, "Earth’s Skin", 2007. Aluminum and copper wire, 177 x 394 in. (449.6 x 1000.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photograph by Joe Levack, courtesy of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Joe Levack
Ghana High Commissioner to Canada, Dr. Richard Turkson (centre, front row) and some members of the Ghanaian community in Vancouver. George Piprah
"Peak", 2010. Tin and copper wire. Three sections, 113 of 140 sheets (each sheet measures 62 x 112 in.) Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.
The app developed by the AUTISM AMBASSADORS OF GHANA. This is an organization that brings together students, various individuals and volunteers who help to create awareness and also help to support lives of children living with Autism in Ghana.
Yida (Comb), 1994/2010. Wooden relief, 24 x 76 1⁄2 x 3⁄4 in. Seventeen pieces. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.
Detail from "Peak", 2010. Tin and copper wire. Three sections, 113 of 140 sheets (each sheet measures 62 x 112 in.) Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.
Hopesetters Autism School, Tema, where the new app is being tested. Hopesetters Autism School
El Anatsui, "Gravity and Grace", 2010. Aluminum and copper wire, 145 5/8 x 441 in. (369.9 x 1120.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photograph by Andrew McAllister, courtesy of the Akron Art Museum. Andrew McAllister
"Motley Crowd", 1998/2010. Wooden relief with metal 24 3/8 x 24 3⁄4 x 2 3/8 in. Twelve pieces. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.
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