News: Ghana

We have started to collect the most important news related to Ghana in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Ghana – overview

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• November 30th 2020 – August 13th 2019
• July 31st 2019 – October 7th 2018
• October 5th 2018 – April 10th 2018
• March 22nd 2018 – December 6th 2016
• December 5th 2016 – November 11th 2015
• October 6th 2015 – June 5th 2015
• June 5th 2015 – February 5th 2015
• February 5th 2015 – September 13th 2014
• August 28th 2014 – June 4th 2014
• May 12th 2014 – July 18th 2013
• July 17th 2013 – January 20th 2013
• January 18th 2013 – November 2nd 2012
• October 31st 2012 – June 18th 2012
• June 3rd 2012 – July 11th 2011
• June 22nd 2011 – November 26th 2010
• November 3rd 2010 – May 18th 2010
• May 17th 2010 – January 15th 2010
• January 15th 2010 – July 10th 2009
• July 9th 2009 – December 31st 2008
• December 30th 2008 – July 9th 2008
• July 2nd 2008 – January 8th 2008
• November 20th 2007 – January 27th 2007
• January 24th 2007 – December 15th 2005

Ghana: news

Environment award for man who stopped new coal power plant in Ghana

Monday, November 30th 2020, 8:30

A climate activist has won a prestigious prize for leading the battle to block it being built in Ghana.
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In pictures: Turning the iconic Ghana Must Go bag into high fashion

Thursday, November 19th 2020, 1:51

A simple bag with a painful history for many Ghanaians is the subject of a photography series.
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Jerry John Rawlings: 'I'm just an ordinary, hungry, screaming Ghanaian'

Saturday, November 14th 2020, 10:59

Through decades of speeches and interviews, this is how Jerry John Rawlings spoke of his vision for Ghana and for Africa.
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Jerry Rawlings: Remembering Ghana's 'man of the people'

Friday, November 13th 2020, 11:50

Ghana's longest-serving leader led by example but later fell foul of his own standards, says Akwasi Sarpong.
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Jerry Rawlings: Why he divided opinion in Ghana

Thursday, November 12th 2020, 14:35

The former air force officer who first seized power in 1979 leaves a divided legacy.
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Letter from Africa: Behind Ghana and Nigeria's love-hate affair

Saturday, September 12th 2020, 23:51
related countries: Nigeria

Why the current tensions over the closure of some Nigerian-owned shops in Ghana should come as no surprise.
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VJ Day: The forgotten African soldiers of the Burma Campaign

Friday, August 14th 2020, 23:01
related countries: Burma

Ghanaian veteran Joseph Hammond, 95, reflects on the horrors of the Burma Campaign.
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Coronavirus: How it turned the tables on Ghana's diaspora

Tuesday, July 28th 2020, 0:15

Coronavirus has given Ghanaians a new perspective on the pull of living abroad.
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Why were US Democrats wearing Ghana’s kente cloth?

Tuesday, June 9th 2020, 15:28
related countries: United States

The politicians caused a stir for having on scarves of African design as they knelt for George Floyd.
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Coronavirus in Ghana: Online funerals, face masks and elections without rallies

Thursday, April 30th 2020, 23:17

Ghana is well known for its elaborate funerals and rowdy election campaigns so coronavirus is changing everything.
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Gold mining in Ghana: Going underground with a child miner

Sunday, April 19th 2020, 23:16

Thousands of illegal gold mines tempt children into potentially lucrative but very dangerous work.
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Coronavirus: Why Ghana has gone into mourning after mass funeral ban

Thursday, March 26th 2020, 0:15

How the measures against the coronavirus in Ghana are challenging the country's religious way of life.
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University of Ghana lecturers suspended after 'sex-for-grades' exposé

Tuesday, February 18th 2020, 16:52

Undercover filming showed the Ghanaian academics breaching university policies on sexual harassment.
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African diaspora: Did Ghana's Year of Return attract foreign visitors?

Thursday, January 30th 2020, 0:43

Ghana's president has declared the Year of Return targeting the African diaspora a great success - but is he right?
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'I have a culture, I have a people, I belong': Why these African Americans are going 'back' to Ghana

Friday, November 1st 2019, 0:49

Ghana has declared 2019 the "Year of Return" and is encouraging the African diaspora to visit the country, but why are some deciding to make it their new home?
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How coastal erosion destroyed a Ghanaian village

Friday, October 25th 2019, 23:04

Sea erosion continues to wreak havoc along West Africa's shoreline, threatening communities.
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Why I went public about being raped, 67 years later

Friday, October 11th 2019, 23:40

A prominent Ghanaian journalist writes about being sexually abused when she was just seven years old.
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Two Ghanaian lecturers suspended after BBC Africa Eye 'Sex For Grades' film

Wednesday, October 9th 2019, 17:37

Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor propositioned undercover journalists posing as students.
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Notre-Dame: How an underwater forest in Ghana could help rebuild a Paris icon

Saturday, October 5th 2019, 23:11
related countries: France
related places: Paris

Wood submerged in Ghana's Lake Volta is a "genius solution" to rebuilding the French cathedral, some say but others disagree.
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Fuse ODG: 'Why we must reject narratives portraying Africans as inferior'

Thursday, August 29th 2019, 23:23

Ghanaian Afrobeat star Fuse ODG says Africans must reject narratives portraying them as 'inferior'.
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The African American who moved to Ghana 'to escape US racism'

Friday, August 23rd 2019, 23:45
related countries: United States

Ghana is encouraging African Americans to relocate to the country, which was at the heart of the slave trade.
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Letter from Africa: The power of an apostrophe

Tuesday, August 13th 2019, 23:35

Who does Ghana credit as its founding fathers? Our public holidays reflect our grapples with history.
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