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
Ghana becomes the first country to approve Oxford's malaria vaccine R21-Matrix-M. 2023-04-14
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 becomes the first country in the world to receive vaccines distributed through the COVAX initiative, with 600,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine. 2021-02-24
An explosion at a liquefied natural gas depot leads to a second explosion at a gas station in Legon, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital Accra, killing at least seven people and injuring sixty-eight more. 2017-10-7
At least 19 people are killed as a gold mine collapses in Tanzania's Msalala district. 2015-04-18
Ghana is to begin pumping its first oil since a discovery in an offshore field three years ago. 2010-12-15
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
During a two-day visit to Ghana, President of Angola José Eduardo dos Santos visits Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra among other engagements. 2010-06-22