Sources: BBC
Unknown gunmen attack a Chinese artisanal gold mine in Narena, Koulikoro Region, Mali, killing one Malian and two others from Ghana, and abducting two Chinese nationals. 2025-05-12
Seventy-eight bodies of workers are retrieved from a closed illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, North West Province, South Africa following a months-long siege by police. Over 200 survivors are arrested as they exit the mine. 2025-01-15
Twelve people are killed when a truck collides with a commuter bus in Central Region, Ghana. 2022-08-4
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
At least 11 people are killed in a fire at a filling station in the Ghanaian capital Accra. 2015-06-3
Emergency workers have recovered the final bodies from a collapsed gold mine in Colombia with 15 people recovered. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150526-last-bodies-recovered-after-colombia-mine-tragedy-killed-15?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign (France 24)]date=August 2019 2015-05-25
Ghana's main opposition party alleges fraud in the recent general election as incumbent President John Mahama is declared the winner. 2012-12-9
Ghana-born doctor Peter Bossman becomes Mayor of Piran (Slovenia), the first black mayor of a town in the so-called former Eastern Bloc of Europe. 2010-10-24
At least 30 people are dead and 80 injured in a passenger truck crash in Zagyuri in northern Ghana. 2010-09-18
The Ghanaian Sports Minister asks FIFA to change its rules after the elimination of their national team, and calls for the African Union to campaign against the "allegedly unfair treatment" of African teams. 2010-07-7