Boston -When John Mahama stepped down as president of Ghana in January 2017, he became the first in his country's history to fail to secure a second term in office.

Esther Afua Ocloo launched her entrepreneurial career as a teenager in the 1930s on less than a dollar.

In 2011, the South African government announced a plan to create a 9.6-gigawatt nuclear energy programme. The project, they argued, would allow South Africa to diversify its energy sector, move away from coal-based energy production and boost economic growth.

At least 18 people were killed when a large tree fell into the pool they were swimming in at the base of a waterfall in Ghana, police said on Monday. The waterfall, near the town of Kintampo, was busy with weekend visitors, many of them high school students, when the accident happened on Sunday.

Today Ghana marks 60 years of independence from British colonial rule.

The office of Nana Akufo-Addo issued an apology on Sunday after the new Ghanaian president was accused of lifting passages from speeches by Bill Clinton and George W Bush during his inaugural address to the nation.

Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn in as Ghana\'s new president on Saturday, in a ceremony attended by dozens of African leaders.

Ghana\'s new president, Nana Akufo-Addo, will be sworn in on Saturday after beating incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama in elections last month.

West Africa\'s regional bloc ECOWAS must ensure The Gambia\'s President Yahya Jammeh steps down because he lost an election, the bloc\'s chairwoman has said.

Ghana\'s main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo said he was \"quietly confident\" he had beaten incumbent President John Mahama in the presidential elections, a claim promptly rejected by the ruling party.

Ghana\'s main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the country\'s national election, defeating President John Mahama, electoral commissioner Charlotte Osei said.

Ghanaians are casting their ballots in neck and neck presidential and parliamentary polls, held at a time of economic woes and corruption scandals that have eroded President John Mahama\'s lustre.

Accra -A middle-aged man driving a Toyota pick-up truck shouts political slogans into a loudspeaker while campaign music booms from the back of his truck for all to hear. As he barrels along a two-lane motorway in Ghana\'s capital Accra, pedestrians wave their arms and motorists blast their car horns. Despite slowing economic growth, high unemployment, an unstable power sector and allegations of government mismanagement and corruption, excitement is high in this West African nation in anticipation

Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake US embassy in the capital, Accra, run by a criminal network that for a decade issued illegally obtained authentic visas, the US State Department has said.