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An illustration showing individuals classified as politically exposed persons in Ghana who are listed as owners of fisheries companies. Photo by Solomon Nyamekye, used with permission. This story was originally published by iWatch Africa, and a shorter version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Samuel Abayitey, a Ghanaian fishery observer, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in October 2023 while aboard the Korean-owned trawler vessel Marine 707. His vanishing, just like the unresolved case of Emmanuel Essien years earlier, points to a troubling patt...
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Radio journalist Sira Sow. Photo provided by Sira Sow, used with permission. Journalist Sira Sow sits behind a green microphone in a recording booth in a hot rural village in eastern Senegal. She speaks in the local language of Wolof on La Laghem FM community radio, her words radiating out into the taxis, homes, stores, and cellphones of hundreds of locals in the N'Dofane region. She is reporting on stopping gender violence, and the local imam she interviewed for her story agrees with her. Gender violence is not supported by the Quran, Islam's sacred text, he says. Her radio broadcast reaches ...
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Kumasi (Ghana) (AFP) - Le roi traditionnel Asante du Ghana a exposé mercredi pour la première fois dans un musée de Kumasi (sud) des dizaines d'objets royaux pillés à l'époque coloniale, revenus dans le pays dans le cadre d'un prêt de musées britanniques à l'occasion des célébrations de son jubilé d'argent. Au début de l'année, le British Museum et le Victoria & Albert Museum ont accepté de prêter pour "trois ans, renouvelable pour trois autres années", 32 trésors d'or et d'argent pillés par les forces militaires britanniques à la cour du royaume Ashanti pendant les guerres anglo-asantes du XI...
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Accra (AFP) - Deux musées britanniques ont renvoyé au Ghana 32 objets en or et en argent pillés dans le royaume Ashanti il y a plus de 150 ans, pour une durée de six ans, selon la partie ghanéenne qui a négocié ce prêt. Ces précieux objets arrivés mercredi dans le pays avaient été dérobés à la cour du roi asante (ou ashanti) au cours des affrontements qui ont eu lieu au XIXe siècle entre les Britanniques et l'influent peuple asante. Quinze proviennent du British Museum et 17 du Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A). Ce retour intervient alors que la pression internationale s'accentue pour que les mus...
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Screenshot from YouTube video, '63yrs Oluman marries 12 years Kid in Ghana, People are Furious!’ by ONE GHANA TV. Fair use. On Saturday, March 30, videos of the marriage ceremony between 16-year-old Naa Okromo and 63-year-old traditional priest Nuumo Borketey Laweh Tsuru XXXIII circulated on social media, sparking debates and outrage among Ghanaians. Many Ghanaians who voiced their concerns on social media expressed distress about this marriage, saying that it infringed on the rights of the young girl. One user on YouTube commented: They say that marriage under 18yrs is prohibited. Then arrest...
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Athletics at the 2023 African Games: Women's 100–metre hurdles. Image by Amuzujoe on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED). Accra, the capital of Ghana, became the focal point of African sporting prowess as the 13th African Games unfolded on March 8. President Nana Akufo-Addo‘s warm reception of athletes from 54 African nations symbolized the spirit of unity and competition that defines this prestigious multi-sport event. Despite a year's delay, the event came to life with a grandeur befitting its status as the premier multi-sport event in Africa. With a budget ranging between USD 195–250 mill...
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Kumasi (Ghana) (AFP) - A California museum on Thursday returned seven royal artefacts to Ghana’s traditional Ashanti king to commemorate his silver jubilee in the first planned handovers of Ashanti treasures looted during colonial times. The ceremony came as pressure grows for European and US museums and institutions to restore African artefacts stolen during the rule of former colonial powers Britain, France, Germany and Belgium. The Ghana royal treasures from the Fowler Museum, including a gold necklace, an ornamental chair and an elephant tail whisk, were presented during a ceremony of chi...
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Washington (AFP) - Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Thursday called for a "global coalition of democracies" to fight violent extremist groups in West Africa that have been spreading south from the Sahel toward Ghana and its neighbors. "The menace caused by terrorism is such that we must share the burden of the fight," said Afuko-Addo, in a Washington speech in which he contrasted Western aid for Ukraine with that given to West African democracies. "This is a time for a global coalition of democracies, a coalition of the willing, determined to banish the specter of terrorism and violent ...
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London (AFP) - The world's biggest chocolate makers are failing on promises to improve pay for farmers in major cocoa producer Ghana despite strong profits, charity Oxfam said in a report on Thursday. It said earnings for US companies Hershey, Mars and Mondelez in addition to Italy's Ferrero and Swiss peers Lindt & Spruengli and Nestle had increased since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, a period when inflation has soared. At the same time, an Oxfam survey of more than 400 cocoa farmers in Ghana -- the second-largest global producer of the commodity -- found their net incomes had fallen by a...
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