EXPLAINED: 5 - The Real Truth

How Ghana, Africa’s rising star, ended up in economic turmoil

The West African nation is a major cocoa and gold exporter, so why is it battling its worst economic crisis in decades?

Al Jazeera · Dec 31, 2022

Ghana's vintage enthusiasts give new life to Western clothing waste

As the sun set on a courtyard of shipping containers in Ghana's capital Accra, young men and women in Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead and tie-dye tees bartered over army surplus jackets and Adidas sneakers while a live deejay spun Afrobeat classics.

Reuters · Dec 28, 2022

Morocco defeated by France in World Cup semi-final clash

It's the end of the road for Morocco's World Cup campaign, after France beat them 2-0 in their semi-final showdown. The Atlas Lions have still made it further than any African team in the history of the tournament. Also, as the US-Africa Summit continues in Washington, $55 billion have been…

France 24 · Dec 14, 2022

Michaela Coel reveals plans to build a home in her father’s ancestral village in Ghana

The I May Destroy You star, 35, said she was considering buying an apartment in the country’s capital, Accra, having spent six months living there last year

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2022

Soccer's worst disasters: Same mistakes by police, fans die

Police firing tear gas into a crowd of soccer fans

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2022

Michaela Coel planning to build a house in Ghana

She’s an iconic Londoner, but now Michaela Coel is broadening her horizons. Coel, pictured, recently lived in Ghana for six months and the trial run seems to have gone well. Now she tells Vogue of her plans to build a house in a village there where her father lives. She…

Evening Standard · Oct 7, 2022

African Global Citizen patrons urge world to consider continent's giving power

Through a sweltering afternoon into a clear-sky night, some 20,000 people descended on Ghana's historic Black Star Square in Accra on Saturday to dance, cheer and sing along to songs performed by some of their favourite stars including Usher, SZA, and Stormzy.

Reuters · Sep 24, 2022

Century-old family photo studio preserves Ghana's history in black and white

A generation before the Gold Coast became Ghana, local photographer J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije opened a small studio in the then-colonial capital Accra, where his family would become the de facto visual historians of a nation that had not yet been born.

Reuters · Aug 31, 2022

Lion mauls man to death in Ghana zoo

A lion at Ghana's Accra Zoo mauled a man to death after he entered its enclosure over the weekend, the government said in a statement.

Reuters · Aug 29, 2022

Man who jumped security fences to enter lions enclosure at zoo attacked and killed

The Forestry Commission in Accra, in south Ghana, has confirmed the man was attacked by a lion and died as a result of his injuries after breaching the lion enclosure

Daily Mirror · Aug 29, 2022