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Ghana and Sunderland star Asamoah Gyan has been crowned BBC African Footballer of the Year for 2010. The Black Stars striker clinched the title with an overwhelming majority - receiving more than half of the vote. He finished well ahead of fellow...
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The government of Ghana has through the Ministry of Youth and Sports withdrawn the letter it sent to the Ghana Football Association to replace GFA President Kwasi...
made popular Nov 17 2010
Ghana’s women national team have sparked a massive gender cheating row by claiming that Equatorial Guinea are playing in the ongoing African Women Championship...
made popular Nov 12 2010
Political intolerance is growing by the day and this has caused prominent Ghanaians to call the main players in the country’s politics to order.
Apart from minor...
made popular Sep 27 2010
Ghana and China signed project loans and another deal together totaling $15 billion, the latest in a string of Chinese investments on the continent.
The loans,...
made popular Sep 24 2010
Ayi was fifteen when her parents sold her. She was sent to the Ghanaian capital of Accra, where her tasks included carrying heavy loads for market women. After a year...
made popular Sep 23 2010
Officials say 17 people in Ghana have died after neighboring Burkina Faso opened the spillways of a dam that was filling amid heavy rains.
Nicholas Mensah of...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Ghana’s main opposition party named veteran leader Nana Akufo-Addo as its candidate for the 2012 presidential election, set to be the first such poll in the West...
made popular Aug 9 2010
A willingness to compete and a fighting spirit are the two major factors that have propelled Ghana to the World Cup quarter-finals, says coach Milovan Rajevac, praising...
made popular Jun 28 2010
South Africa rejoiced Sunday as Ghana became only the third African team ever to make the World Cup quarter-finals, as England crashed out of the tournament after a...
made popular Jun 28 2010
The thrilling run of the United States national team at the World Cup has come to end, finished by Asamoah (Baby Jet) Gyan’s goal in the third minute of extra time...
made popular Jun 28 2010
The first World Cup in Africa has its first African winner.
Ghana stunned Serbia when Asamoah Gyan scored on an 84th-minute penalty kick Sunday for a 1-0 victory in...
made popular Jun 14 2010
On a hot afternoon in Malam Ata market in the centre of Accra, capital of Ghana, when eight-year-olds should be in a classroom learning, or playing with friends,...
made popular Jun 11 2010
Ghanaians have a reason to proclaim war against any government in power who misuse our funds or does not develop the country during their years in power to favour the...
made popular Jun 5 2010
South Africa’s place as the sole economic giant in Africa is set to decline in coming decades as its growth is outstripped by countries to the north that have emerged...
made popular Jun 2 2010
Equatorial Guinea has agreed to supply Ghana with 2 million barrels of crude oil per year in a deal meant to help Ghana’s debt-ridden refinery continue operating,...
made popular May 7 2010
I just watched a programme on “60 Minutes” about the infamous Nigerian 4-1-9 scams, you know the ones where someone emails you with the good news that you...
made popular May 3 2010
A study conducted by Action Aid Ghana (AAG) and FoodSPAN in four regions in Ghana has revealed that the production of biofuel is fast affecting food crop farmers in the...
made popular Mar 22 2010
Last Tuesday, Baruch Lebovits, an Orthodox rabbi based in Brooklyn, New York, was found guilty on eight of ten counts for sexually assaulting a teenage boy. He now...
made popular Mar 17 2010
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Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba was named African Footballer of the Year on Thursday, beating Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o and Ghana’s Michael Essien for...
made popular Mar 12 2010
Juliana Kweais has a small scar on her bottom lip, from the first time she witnessed an abortion. The sharp blow to her mouth was delivered by her grandmother, after...
made popular Jan 20 2010
At least 18 people, including 14 women, have been killed in the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Ghana.
The disaster occurred on Wednesday in a privately-owned mine...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Nigerians are not left apart in celebrating with Ghana for their victory over Brazil today. The very unfortunate that Nigeria hope to carry the Cup this year, Eagle...
made popular Oct 19 2009
“After the Massive flooding that hit the West Africa and displaced a huge number of people, Morocco has decided to send an emergency humanitarian aid to Burkina...
made popular Sep 26 2009
Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien scored as Ghana defeated Sudan 2-0 in Accra Sunday to become the first African qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup in South...
made popular Sep 7 2009
Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that “significant” rainfall has lashed the...
made popular Sep 5 2009
The pickled head of an African chief murdered by Dutch colonialists almost 200 years ago was on its way back to Ghana yesterday, at the end of a strange voyage through...
made popular Jul 25 2009
The head of King Badu Bonsu II was discovered last year in a jar of formaldehyde gathering dust in the anatomical collection of the Leiden University Medical Centre....
made popular Jul 24 2009
From miles away great plumes of black acrid smoke mark the site of Sodom and Gomorrah, a sprawling slum on the outskirts of the Ghanaian capital, Accra.
As one edges...
made popular Jul 18 2009
The Ghanaian press has deliberately ignored the vital significance of the visit of US President Barrack Obama. The narrow diversionary, almost trivial emphasis on...
made popular Jul 10 2009
Anyone who has ever worked at the States Department will tell you that by just inviting them to the White House, some African leaders will hand over to you the key to...
made popular Jul 9 2009
global water issues are staggering. In excess of 1 billion people—about four times the population of the United States—lack access to clean, safe water, and 6,000...
made popular Jun 22 2009
Eight days more to Ghana’s election run-off between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Party (NDC); most Ghanaians predicted that the...
made popular Dec 20 2008
Vote counting continues from Sunday’s elections in Ghana with two leading candidates in a tight race to be the country’s next president. Both Nana...
made popular Dec 11 2008
I am writing this blog lying on my stomach in bed in Bujumbura. Although it is not an ideal posture for composing, it is one in which I can be in for an extended period...
made popular Oct 11 2008
Something very serious is going on in Ghana right now. Presidential elections are coming up in December so as you would imagine, there are a lot of rallies, talking,...
made popular Oct 1 2008
For the past 20 years, Malaria in Ghana and Africa has become a very critical issue. Many people die due to malaria and till today, malaria remains one of the major...
made popular Sep 23 2008
I don’t think the educational system in Ghana has been designed in such a way to develop the personalities of individuals. Most of the time, the focus is on how best...
made popular Sep 11 2008
For sometime now, I have been concerned about small and medium scale businesses/enterprises in my country. Let me give you an example. When I was a child there was this...
made popular Sep 10 2008
On almost every street corner, junction or traffic light, you are sure to find a young child, who should be in school, selling water, food or just anything you can...
made popular Sep 10 2008
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President-elect John Atta Mills holds a bible as he is sworn in as the country’s new president during a ceremony in Accra, Ghana Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. The election of Mills, in the closest vote in Ghana’s history, makes the West African nation one...
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