ANKARA—Ghana winger Christian Atsu has been found dead under the building where he lived in southern Turkey after last week’s massive earthquake, his Turkish agent said on Saturday. Atsu had been missing since the Feb. 6 earthquake following the collapse of an apartment building in Hatay. He was 31. “Atsu’s lifeless body was found under […]
ACCRA—At least 17 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana collided with a motorcycle, setting off an explosion that flattened a rural community, the government said on Friday. As rescuers combed the site for survivors, videos posted on local media showed hundreds of buildings […]
ACCRA, Ghana—Ghana says that its scientists have detected cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant in passengers who arrived in the country on Nov. 21. The cases were detected at the Kotoka International Airport in the capital, Accra, after tests were conducted on incoming passengers, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service Patrick Kuma-Aboagye said […]
ACCRA—At least 80 dolphins and large numbers of fish have washed up dead on beaches near Ghana‘s capital Accra since Friday, prompting investigations by the authorities. The cause of death was not yet clear. A team from the fisheries commission took fish and water samples from Osu Castle Beach in Accra, the ministry of fisheries said in a statement. The Food and Drugs Authority […]
Investigators have discovered that a woman murdered on May 10 was married to two men at the same time. Bettie Jenifer was leaving work in Greenbelt, Maryland, when a gunman opened fire in the parking lot. She ran across the lot towards her car before two bullets struck her. “Once fatally in the head,” said […]
DAKAR—At least 57 people were killed and dozens of others injured after two buses collided in central Ghana, according to authorities. The crash took place early on Friday morning near the town of Kintampo, around 330 km (205 miles) from the capital Accra, a police officer told Reuters via telephone. The buses had a combined […]
Ghana is a country rich in natural resources, including crude oil, gold, diamonds, and minerals such as manganese and bauxite, and China—one of the West African country’s biggest investors—has set its sights on those valuable products. The investments are part of Beijing’s ambitious development project known as “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR, also known as […]
A teacher in Ghana has received global admiration for his dedication as an educator after photos of him teaching a computer technology class in a classroom without any computers became a viral sensation. One photo captures the teacher drawing features of the popular Microsoft Word Processing window on a blackboard using multi-colored chalk. Another photo […]
