Sources: BBC
At least 21 miners are killed and several others are trapped following a collapse at a gold mine in Simiyu Region, Tanzania. 2024-01-13
Militants kill at least one soldier and one civilian in the Karma gold mine in Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso. 2022-06-9
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
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 receives 1.5 million doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by Germany. 2021-09-26
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
An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills at least 78 people. 2015-06-4
Health Ministers from the Economic Community of West African States will meet in Accra, Ghana to discuss the crisis. 2014-08-28
At least 30 people are dead and 80 injured in a passenger truck crash in Zagyuri in northern Ghana. 2010-09-18