Ghana

Africa 05/27/19, 21:00

Ghana cracked down on illegal small-scale gold mining in 2017 but banned small-scale operations continue despite digital monitoring and land reclamation

Africa 04/19/19, 07:00

'The Burial of Kojo,' by Ghana-born rapper and director Sam “Blitz” Bazawule, bends traditional story-telling and magical realism

Soccer 04/12/19, 15:50

Mohamed Salah and host Egypt will face Congo, Uganda and Zimbabwe in the group stage of an historic African Cup of Nations this year, the first time the tournament will field 24 teams and be held in the European summer.As host, Egypt was one of six seeded teams for Friday's ...

Africa 02/10/19, 09:36

A statue of Ethiopia's Emperor Haileselassie has been unveiled at the headquarters of the African Union on Sunday.The statue is the second to be erected inside the continental body's offices in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, after one of Ghana's first leader, Kwame Nkrumah, who championed pan-Africanism.Several African leaders at the ...

Africa 02/01/19, 05:09

The United States says Ghana has been impeding the return of deported nationals

Africa 01/31/19, 08:14

Almost five years have passed since he nearly died of Ebola in Liberia, but Richard Sacra has never wavered from his commitment to the struggling West African nation.The 56-year-old family doctor from Massachusetts was among a handful of Americans treated and cured of Ebola during West Africa's deadly epidemic in ...

Soccer 01/16/19, 07:11

Canadian teenager Alphonso Davies could be thrown in at the deep end.The 18-year-old winger will likely get his first taste of Bundesliga action for Bayern Munich in the coming weeks, if not on Friday.Bayern restarts the league after the winter break at Hoffenheim, where Davies could play because of injuries ...

Tech 01/05/19, 04:05

On any given day, plumes of noxious smoke rise above the Agbogbloshie dump site in Ghana's capital, Accra.The billowing black smoke comes from the many informal e-waste recyclers who take unwanted electronics, strip them of their cables and burn away the protective covers to reach the valuable copper beneath.It's a ...

Soccer 11/30/18, 15:28

With stadiums only half-built and a violent separatist rebellion playing out dangerously close to planned venues, Cameroon was stripped of the right to host next year's African Cup of Nations soccer tournament on Friday little more than six months before kickoff.It's the fourth successive time Africa's top soccer tournament has ...

Africa 11/04/18, 14:46

Britain's Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have attended a dubar - a traditional celebration of leaders - as part of their visit to Ghana.The heir to the British throne and his wife, Camilla, arrived in the West African country's capital, Accra, on Friday night and flew into Kumasi ...

Africa 10/30/18, 15:30

Former FIFA Council member Kwesi Nyantakyi was banned from soccer for life on Tuesday after being filmed taking bribes by an undercover television program in Ghana.FIFA said its ethics committee judges found Nyantakyi guilty of bribery, corruption and conflict of interest.Nyantakyi was also fined 500,000 Swiss francs ($498,000), though it ...

Africa 10/02/18, 07:23

Melania Trump has arrived in Ghana to open her first major solo international trip as U.S. first lady.She landed in the capital of Accra on Tuesday morning after an overnight flight from Washington and was welcomed to the West African nation with dancing and drumming and schoolchildren waving mini U.S. ...

U.S. 10/01/18, 21:03

The Latest on Melania Trump's trip to Africa (all times local): 6:20 p.m. First lady Melania Trump boards a plane, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Africa. Melania Trump heads for Africa on her first big solo international trip, aiming to make child well-being the ...

U.S. 10/01/18, 02:23

First lady Melania Trump heads for Africa on her first big solo international trip, aiming to make child well-being the focus of a five-day, four-country tour that will take her to every corner of the vast and impoverished continent.Departing on Monday, she opens her first-ever visit to Africa on Tuesday ...

Africa 09/26/18, 10:22

The Latest on the United Nations General Assembly (all times local):10:15 a.m.Ghana's president is defending massive Chinese investment across Africa in the face of concerns about a possible "re-colonization of the African continent by a new power."President Nana Akufo-Addo says "it is obvious to us that the development trajectory we ...