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Houses damaged by landslides in an informal settlement of Attecoube, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP/Photo Diomande Ble Blonde)

Floods in Ghana and Ivory Coast leave at least 24 dead following torrential rains

At least 24 people have died after heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides in the capital cities of Ghana and Ivory Coast, authorities said.

President John Dramani Mahama lays a wreath in a ceremony to honor victims of the transatlantic slave trade at Christiansborg Castle during a Juneteenth commemoration ceremony in Accra, Ghana, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Reuben Ekow Quansah)

Ghana conference urges slave-trade nations to issue apologies and reparations

Police stand guard at the entrance of Ghana electoral commission office in Accra Ghana, Dec. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Ghana police rescue 57 Nigerians in crackdown on human trafficking and cybercrime

Ghana's President John Mahama speaks to the media at the Jubilee House in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Ghana Presidency via AP)

US deportees sue the Ghanaian authorities as competing claims swirl about their location

The fantasy coffin of the late Robert Nii Anang Obodai, a former school proprietor, is lowered into his grave in Accra, Ghana, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Ghana’s fantasy coffins are a colorful celebration of life and legacy

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Here’s the latest for Monday, June 29th: Secretary of State Rubio meets with German counterpart in Washington; Flooding makes some roads in Accra impassable; Palestinian officials visit archeological site they say Israel is trying to wrest control of; Music stars among the mourners at the funeral of record executive, Clive Davis

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In this image taken from video, people work at the site of a military helicopter crash in Sikaman near Adansi, Ashanti region, Ghana, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Hafiz Tijani)

Helicopter crash in Ghana kills ministers of defense and environment and 6 others

Damien Larbli Tchintchibidja, Vice president of the ECOWAS Commission, left, Ghana's President John Mahama, center and Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar pose for a photo, prior to the start of the ECOWAS meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

Ghana’s president inaugurates a special task force to tackle illegal gold mining

The Microsoft team sets up the first live trial of 3D telemedicine technology in a van at Koforidua Hospital, Ghana, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

New 3D technology could soon bring surgeons closer to patients in Africa’s most remote regions

Ghana's first-ever female world boxing champion, Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey, poses for a photo with her world title belt at her house in the Jamestown district in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

They told her women shouldn’t box. Now she’s Ghana’s first female world champion

Supporters of opposition candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama celebrate his victory after his opponent conceded in Accra, Ghana, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Ghana’s ex-President John Mahama is set to return after rival concedes election

Election officials count the ballots after polls closed in the general elections in Accra, Ghana, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Polls close in Ghana’s general election in the shadow of the worst economic crisis in a generation

A supporter of presidential candidate and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia waves a flag during the final rally of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, ahead of the presidential election. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Ghanaians go to the polls with the backdrop of the worst economic crisis in a generation

Supporters of the former Ghana President and presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, gather during the party's final rally, in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, ahead of the presidential election. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Young Ghanaians see presidential vote as a way out of hardship. But their options are limited

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As fast fashion’s waste pollutes Africa’s environment, designers in Ghana are finding a solution

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Under-Secretary General, Peace operations speaks at the UN Peacekeeping ministerial meeting at the Accra international conference center in Ghana, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. Lacroix said that The United Nations Peacekeeping efforts is under resourced as its $5.5 billion budget for worldwide operations is less than the New York Police Department's $6.1 billion budget, even though it has 30,000 more personnel. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

UN peacekeeping chief welcomes strong support for its far-flung operations despite `headwinds’

Ghana bets on $3bn IMF loan to ‘reset’ economy, ease hardship

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris addresses youth gathered on Black Star square in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (Misper Apawu/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Harris finds new connections in Africa as historic figure

Players pay a minute of silence as tribute to Christian Atsu who died in the Turkey earthquake ahead the English Premier League soccer match between Nottingham Forest and Manchester City at City ground in Nottingham, England, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)

Body of Ghana soccer player Atsu repatriated from Turkey

FILE - Police officers and soldiers stand amid tear gas smoke after clashes between fans during a soccer match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Yudha Prabow, File)

Soccer’s worst disasters: Same mistakes by police, fans die

Charlie Puth performs at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park in New York on Sept. 24, 2022. The 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival, which included performances from Metallica, Mariah Carey and Usher, generated more than $2.4 billion in commitments to fight extreme poverty and disease. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, file)

Global Citizen Festival generates $2.4 billion in pledges

FILE - James Hetfield of Metallica performs at the Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago on July 28, 2022. Metallica, Mariah Carey and The Jonas Brothers will headline a free concert in New York’s Central Park to mark the 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival on Sept. 24. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

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West Africa leaders lift sanctions on 2 junta-led neighbors

Drummer, educator Theo Martey named NH Artist Laureate

This image provided by the NFL shows Cleveland Browns linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, at center of group facing the camera, during a football camp at Adjinganor Field in Accra, Ghana, April 2, 2022. Following the camp this past weekend, the NFL announced a three-day camp will take place in the capital of Accra in June. (Emily Wirz/NFL via AP)

NFL opening pathway for African players with 1st camp

Ghana Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, right, speaks with ECOWAS president, Jean Claude Kassi Brou during the fifth extraordinary summit in Accra, Ghana, Friday March 25, 2022. West African leaders held another summit on Mali after imposing regional sanctions in January on the country after its military leaders said they would stay in power for four more years instead of holding an election in February. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

West African leaders make demands after coups in the region

Ghana says it has detected omicron variant in at airport

Ambassadors and foreign representations, wait for a meeting with Military junta led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya, at the people's palace in Conakry, Guinea Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Guinea's junta is expected to face more pressure to set a timeframe for new elections Tuesday as the military rulers open a four-day series of meetings about the West African nation's future following the president's overthrow in a coup just over a week ago. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

West Africa to impose bans, freeze assets of Guinea junta

Siblings who survived Tulsa Race Massacre to visit Africa

FILE- In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 file photo, retired Col. Maj. Bah N'Daw, right, is sworn into the office of transitional president, and Col. Assimi Goita, left, head of the junta that staged the Aug. 18 2020 coup, is sworn into the office of transitional vice president, at a ceremony in the capital Bamako, Mali. Mali's military has released the transitional president and prime minister Moctar Ouane from detention Thursday May 27, 2021, after they resigned from their respective posts.(AP Photo, File)

West Africa leaders suspend Mali from region bloc over coup

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2001 file photo, outgoing President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, right, meets with President-elect John Kufuor, left, as they hold discussions on the transfer of power in Accra, Ghana. Ghana's former president Jerry Rawlings, who staged two coups and later led the West African country's transition to a stable democracy, has died aged 73, according to the state's Radio Ghana and the president Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/ Clement Ntaye, File)

Ghana’s former president Jerry Rawlings dies at 73

Journalist in Ghana who exposed soccer corruption shot dead

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