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November 11, 2023 at 10:47 AM. Mexico defender Hedgardo Marin, right, kicks the ball as Ghana forward Raphael Dwamena in 2017. Raphael Dwamena, a striker for the Ghana International football team ...
Cancer in Ghana. Appearance. Current estimates indicates that over 24,000 new cases of cancer are recorded each year at Ghana. [ 1 ] In 2020, 15,802 Ghanaians died from cancer. [ 2 ][ 3 ] A 2015 study in Kumasi recorded breast and cervical cancer raked high records among females. Prostate cancer recorded the highest among males.
Ghana last executed a criminal in 1993. [1] It is considered "abolitionist in practice." [2] Capital punishment was a mandatory sentence for certain ordinary criminal offenses until 2023. [3] Seven new death sentences were handed down in 2021, while 165 people were on death row in Ghana at the end of 2021. [4]
Bogoso explosion. On 20 January 2022, a large explosion occurred along the Tarkwa-Bogoso-Ayamfuri road in Western Region, Ghana, after a truck transporting mining explosives collided with a motorcycle. The explosion levelled the nearby Apiate village, killing 13 people and injuring 200. [1][2]
September 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM. ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's electoral commission has approved 13 candidates, including Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia and former president John Dramani Mahama, to ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first two cases in Ghana were confirmed on 12 March 2020, when two infected people came to Ghana, one from Norway and the other from Turkey .
State funeral of Kwame Nkrumah. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, died on April 27, 1972, in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. [1] Nkrumah died of an unknown but apparently incurable sickness. His body came back to Ghana where he had achieved independence in 1957 and had ruled the country approximately 13 years.
2024 Portugal wildfires. Three Portuguese firefighters die while fighting wildfires in the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the wildfires to seven people. (Reuters) At least 25 children are killed in Kaduna State, Nigeria, when a bus carrying Muslims celebrating Mawlid crashes.