Sources: BBC
Six people are killed in a stampede during a military recruitment event in Accra, Ghana. 2025-11-12
Twenty-five miners are trapped about 80 m underground after a gold mine collapses in Segovia, Antioquia, Colombia, with authorities confirming contact, stable health conditions, and ongoing rescue operations. 2025-09-22
Ghanaian president John Mahama removes Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo from office following a committee report recommending her dismissal for misconduct, which Torkornoo denies. 2025-09-1
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
Interpol rescues 33 West Africans, including people from Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ghana, from human trafficking rings in the Ivory Coast. 2025-04-22
Militants kill at least one soldier and one civilian in the Karma gold mine in Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso. 2022-06-9
Voters go to the polls in Ghana for the country's presidential elections. It is expected to be a close race between incumbent president John Dramani Mahama of the ruling National Democratic Congress party and his rival Nana Akufo-Addo and his New Patriotic Party. 2016-12-7
At least 71 people are killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Ghana. 2016-02-18
An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills at least 78 people. 2015-06-4
A Ghanaian national goes on a spree attack with a pickaxe in Milan, Italy killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack. 2013-05-11