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Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia is nominated by the country's ruling New Patriotic Party as their presidential candidate.
2023-11-4

The Ghanaian Ministry of Defence warns that the possibility of a terrorist attack occurring in the country is "very real" and that the country's defence system has been placed on high alert.
2022-05-16

Ghana reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a traveller who arrived at Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
2021-12-1

The World Health Organization endorses the mass rollout of the malaria vaccine RTS,S across Sub-Saharan Africa and other countries affected by the disease after pilot programs with the vaccine in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi reduced malaria-related hospitalization and death rates among children by 70%.
2021-10-6

Ghana's Food and Drugs Authority approves the usage of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines, bringing the number of approved vaccines in the country to five.
2021-07-28

President Nana Akufo-Addo, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, and their spouses receive their first doses of the vaccine from the COVAX initiative as Ghana begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19.
2021-03-1

Voters in Ghana head to the polls to elect their president as well as the members of parliament. Current president Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party is expected to have a tight race with his most promising challenger, John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress.
2020-12-7

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo announces his country will adopt the eco as its new currency, but insists to fellow members of the currency union that it should not be pegged to the euro.
2019-12-29

Two Canadian women who were abducted in Ghana are rescued by Ghanaian police.
2019-06-12

At least 71 people are killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Ghana.
2016-02-18