The body of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been flown back to his native Ghana for a state funeral.

Ghana's finance minister says investors were optimistic in meetings with senior government officials who accompanied Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to the World Bank spring meetings in Washington.

Ghana's president has offered his condolences to the families of victims of a freak accident at a popular waterfall, in which a tree fell and killed at least 18 people.

A thunderstorm rages east of Johannesburg. Rain hammers the corrugated iron roof of a small house in a bleak township. An elderly woman, strings white beads around her wrinkled neck, head and wrists, sitting on a cement floor in a corner of a room.

The chairman of Ghana\'s opposition People\'s National Convention (PNC) says it is regrettable that civil society groups are pressuring President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to form an all-inclusive government by choosing ministers from rival parties as part of his incoming administration.

In his first 100 days in office, President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo will implement measures to improve Ghanaians\' lives and restore dignity to the presidency, his spokesman said Thursday.

ACCRA -Longtime Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo has won the presidency on his third attampt, defeating incumbent President John Mahama.

The main challenger in Ghana\'s presidential election has said he is confident of victory but called on supporters to give the electoral commission more time to do its work.

The U.S. State Department on Monday said no one is known to have entered the United States on visas issued by a fake U.S. embassy that operated in Accra, Ghana, for a decade.

Ghana\'s electoral commission on Sunday will hold a second special early voting period for citizens who encountered trouble Thursday when they tried to cast ballots in the first one.

A new survey conducted by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) shows that a majority of Ghanaians believe the Electoral Commission of Ghana can administer free, peaceful and credible elections December 7. Ghanaians will go to the polls that day to vote in presidential, parliamentary and local elections.

The International Standards Journalist Association (ISJA) has filed a petition at the human rights court seeking to prevent the electoral commission of Ghana from charging media accreditation fees for journalists who plan to cover the December 7 presidential, parliamentary and local polls.

When Ghana\'s voters go to the polls December 7, the economy likely will play a pivotal role.

Ghana\'s electoral commission has qualified seven presidential candidates for the national election on December 7.

Hassan Ayariga, the twice disqualified presidential candidate of Ghana\'s opposition All People\'s Congress, is calling on the chairperson of the country\'s electoral commission to step down with immediate effect, before next month\'s general elections.

In Ghana, the electoral commission is now requiring journalists to pay a fee to be accredited to cover the presidential and parliamentary elections next month. Journalists are rejecting the requirement, which they say will reduce election transparency.

The presidential candidate of Ghana\'s opposition Progressive People\'s Party (PPP) says a court decision Friday that orders the Electoral Commission to put him on the December 7 ballot should strengthen the electoral body\'s ability to equitably apply the country\'s electoral laws ahead of the polls.

Officials from the electoral commission of Ghana plan to meet the chiefs and elders as well as the media next week as part of an engagement program to educate the public ahead of the December 7 presidential, parliamentary and local elections. The electoral commission says officials will go across the country to meet and explain the electoral process and answer voter concerns.

Attorneys for the Ghanaian opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) plan to file a petition in court Thursday seeking to challenge the electoral commission\'s decision to disqualify former first lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, presidential candidate of the party, from the Dec. 7 general election.

With a wide variety of experiences to choose from this summer, 16-year-old Sam Pinczuk decided to go to Ghana. He says he spent the hot days doing something cool: teaching kids there photography. The trip touched the Ghanaian kids' lives and affected the high school student in ways he couldn't have imagined.