Sources: BBC
Brazil, Greece and Ghana report their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-8
At least 18 people are killed during the collapse of an artisanal gold mine in Dan Issa, Maradi Region. 2021-11-7
At least 30 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses due to a landslide in the Tibesti Region, Chad. 2019-09-26
Erin Energy, a Texas company specialising in African offshore oil deposits with licences to explore off Nigeria, The Gambia, Ghana, and Kenya, files for bankruptcy protection. 2018-04-26
Three miners are missing but dozens have been rescued following a gold mine collapse in South Africa. 2016-02-5
Sian Blake's partner Arthur Simpson-Kent is arrested in Ghana in connection with the murder of Blake and her two children. 2016-01-9
More than 60 miners die when a recently reopened gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan. 2013-05-2
Voters in Ghana go to the polls for a presidential and parliamentary election. 2012-12-7
Ghana says a threat of force by the Economic Community of West African States to remove Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo would "not bring about peace" in the country. 2011-01-7
Rescuers in Ghana's Central Region end an operation to search for survivors from a gold mine collapse in which 70 people were thought to be dead. 2010-06-29