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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), or city council, has renewed its efforts to decongest city centre streets with the demolition of temporary wooden structures used by petty traders around Kwame N...
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Investigations are under way into allegations of misappropriation of public funds in the celebration of Ghana
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Following measures undertaken in a collaboration between Cuba based Biological and Pharmaceutical Laboratory Enterprise Group (LABIOFAM) and Ghana
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The government of new president John Atta Mills has increased the price of all petroleum products in Ghana by 30 per cent. Under the new tariff structure petrol costs GH
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United States president Barack Obama will be in Ghana from 10-11 July on his first official visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office in January. The trip is expected to highlight
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Kwame Nkrumah memorial park to get facelift.
Kwame Nkrumah memorial park in central Accra is to get a facelift, vice president John Mahama has said.
The site, which includes a mausoleum containing the remains of independent Ghana
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Drumming banned ahead of Homowo.
Traditional leaders of Ga state have banned drumming and noisemaking in the capital from 4 May to 4 June as part of preparations for the Ga traditional Homowo festival to celebrate the harvest in July...
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Ghana to buy property for foreign missions.
The government is taking steps to buy property abroad to house its foreign diplomatic missions, minister of foreign affairs and regional integration Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni has said. The announcement c...
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Nearly 100 musicians have been nominated for prizes in 15 categories including artiste of the year, most popular song of the year and discovery of the year.
Names to look out for include Gospel sing...
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Ghana cocoa farmers go Fairtrade.
Cocoa farmers in Ghana are to get a boost later this year when leading UK-based chocolate manufacturer Cadbury starts selling its popular Dairy Milk bar and drinking chocolate product under the Fairtr...
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Kwame Nkrumah centenary celebrations.
The Kwame Nkrumah Foundation (KNF) in Accra has launched a year-long programme of events to mark the centenary of the birth of the country
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President Atta-Mills new cabinet.
President John Atta-Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has completed his cabinet line-up just over three weeks after being sworn into office. The new government consists of 23 ministers a...
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Kufuor retirement package sparks outrage.
There is public outrage in Ghana over the generous retirement package for ex president John Kufuor and other former heads of state, which was approved on 6 January, the day before Kufuor stepped down...
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Four universities from Ghana are to represent the country in the Zain Africa Challenge 2009, which will be held in Kampala, Uganda, from 13-23 February. Teams from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Scie...
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Tullow predicts good oil production in Ghana.
Anglo-Irish oil and gas exploration and production group Tullow Oil has predicted
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John Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been sworn in as president of Ghana after narrowly winning run-off elections on 28 December. He replaces John Kufuor of the New Patriotic...
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Atta Mills declared Ghana’s new president.
John Atta Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has formally been declared the winner of the Ghana presidential elections. In a close run-off for the presidency Mills won by 50.23...
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Ghana's presidential vote too close to call.
With the results of the run-off presidential election in Ghana too close to call, the country
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Ghana presidential elections go to run-off.
The next president of Ghana will be decided in a run-off vote after the first round of polling on 7 December failed to result in a clear winner. The run-off has been scheduled for 28 December and the...
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Ghana awaits election results.
Ballots are still being counted in Ghana following peaceful and orderly general elections on 7 December.
In the presidential elections official results are not expected until 10 December, but analys...
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Election observers from the Commonwealth secretariat in London have arrived in Ghana to monitor the presidential and parliamentary elections on 7 December. The team will be joined by representatives o...
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Pan-African human rights conference.
A three-day conference on human rights will open in Accra on 21 November under the title
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Bee-keeping workshop in Ghana.
Ghanaian bee-keepers and representatives of the business community and non-governmental organisations in Ghana, Togo, South Africa and Uganda are to take part in a workshop on beekeeping in the capita...
