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President Nana Akufo-Addo, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, and their spouses receive their first doses of the vaccine from the COVAX initiative as Ghana begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19.
2021-03-1

Voters in Ghana head to the polls to elect their president as well as the members of parliament. Current president Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party is expected to have a tight race with his most promising challenger, John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress.
2020-12-7

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo announces his country will adopt the eco as its new currency, but insists to fellow members of the currency union that it should not be pegged to the euro.
2019-12-29

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

A large tree falls into a pool at the base of the Kintampo waterfalls in Ghana, killing at least 18 people and injuring 22 others.
2017-03-20

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

Ghana's main opposition party alleges fraud in the recent general election as incumbent President John Mahama is declared the winner.
2012-12-9

The President of Ghana, John Atta Mills, dies and is replaced by Vice-President John Dramani Mahama.
2012-07-24

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