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Ghana's sports ministry says it is "relieved" by the reinstatement of its national Olympic committee by the IOC and will prepare to compete in the 2012 London Games.
As international aid agencies scramble for donations for East Africa's famine victims, one multi-million-dollar fundraising drive has come from an unexpected source: a West African schoolboy.
Jimmy Carter watched in horror as the inches- (centimeters-) long worm emerged from the breast of a woman in remote northern Ghana. That was in the 1980s. The former U.S. president dedicated himself to eradicating the sickness and estimated it would take 10 years.
The West African nation of Ghana is poised to begin pumping oil Wednesday for the first time, kicking off a lucrative new industry expected to bring $1 billion annually to a part of the world where most people still get by on less than $2 a day.
Ghana's World Cup players will be given national honors and $20,000 each after reaching the quarterfinals in South Africa.
Ghana's new president took office Wednesday vowing to "heal wounds and unite our dear nation" following a peaceful but tense election that secured the country's status as one of the continent's few stable democracies.
Opposition leader John Atta Mills was declared Ghana's next president Saturday in a peaceful ballot that secured the West African nation's place as a beacon of democracy on a volatile continent.
A judge ruled Friday that a respected human rights campaigner and 31 other activists accused of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe should remain in custody over the weekend.
Ghana's presidential contest heads to a runoff vote Sunday, a race that has become a referendum on whether the West African country's stunning growth of the past eight years has trickled down to ordinary people.
A tanker truck carrying gasoline overturned on a highway in Ghana and exploded while people were trying to take the leaking fuel on Wednesday, killing at least 21 and injuring about 80, police said.
Two British teenage girls left prison Thursday after serving nine-month sentences for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Ghana in laptop computer bags, prison officers and the girls' lawyers said.
The U.N. chief said Monday the world must do more to eradicate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, where not a single country is on track to meet the goals of a global anti-poverty campaign launched in 2000.
A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.
Two British teenage girls were sentenced Wednesday to nine months in jail for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Ghana in laptop bags, government officials said.
The bodies of two U.S. Navy sailors who were found dead in a hotel room in the West African nation of Ghana on New Year's Eve have been flown to Germany for a post-mortem examination, a top Ghanaian police official said Friday.
Two U.S. Navy sailors who were found dead in a hotel room in the West African nation of Ghana on New Year's Eve have been identified.
Ghana's president said Saturday that offshore oil reserves discovered in the West African country's waters total 3 billion barrels.
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