Sources: BBC
A coalition of human rights lawyers file a lawsuit against Ghana at the ECOWAS Court of Justice, accusing the country of violating non-refoulement by accepting deportees from the U.S. and forcing them back to the home countries they had fled. 2026-06-30
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
An outbreak is declared at a gold mine in Yukon after three people tested positive for COVID-19. 2021-06-6
A landslide at a clandestine gold mine in Siguiri, Guinea, kills at least fifteen miners. 2021-05-9
At least 14 people are killed after an illegal gold mine collapses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Maniema province. Search efforts are underway for others who could be trapped. 2019-10-2
The owners of the Dutch ship MV "FWN Rapide" announce the ship was attacked by pirates last night while sailing from Ghana to Nigeria and 12 of the crew abducted. 2018-04-23
At least 71 people are killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Ghana. 2016-02-18
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