Ghana - Page 2

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Britain’s Royal Air Force says the first in a series of flights taking coronavirus aid to Africa has departed for Ghana with materials for a field hospital with capacity for nearly 100 people.

Ghana, considered a gateway of the brutal slave trade to the United States that began more than 400 years ago, is urging “unwanted” Americans of African heritage to resettle within its borders in the wake of the police killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd.

Democrat lawmakers, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), are facing overwhelming backlash after opting to wear Kente cloth during their nearly nine-minute moment of silence in a show against police brutality.

Experts warn that coronavirus-related school closures in West Africa during the local cocoa harvest season could cause a spike in child labor in Ivory Coast and Ghana, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told reporters on Tuesday following a meeting with the Chinese ambassador to the country, Zhou Pingjian, that reports of Chinese businesses banning black people and landlords evicting them over Chinese coronavirus fears were “unacceptable.”

The study was released on Wednesday, detailing abuse received by women in Nigeria, Ghana, Myanmar, and Guinea during childbirth.

Former Vice President Joe Biden committed another gaffe on the campaign trail, confusing an immigrant’s country of origin only moments after the man stated where he was from.

Rep. Ilhan Omar mocked President Donald Trump and his supporters on social media by touting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi took her back to Africa.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep. Ilhan Omar are in Africa to mark anniversary of U.S. slave trade.

Google has expressed its regret over a “minor glitch” that caused the value of the Ghanaian currency, the cedi, to drop significantly.

A Ugandan origin woman has been found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM), the first person in British legal history successfully tried under the nation’s FGM laws.

Cows’ tongues bound in wire with nails and used in a black magic spell to “silence the police and the doctors” were found in the freezer of a Ugandan woman accused of committing female genital mutilation against her three-year-old daughter, the Old Bailey has heard.

A soldier from Africa is suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for £150,000, claiming they failed to protect him from cold weather conditions.

First Lady Melania Trump embarked on a solo trip to Africa this week to celebrate and bring attention to those working with America in fostering the well being of children on the other side of the world.

First Lady Melania Trump spent her second day in Ghana proving she can be fashionable on a dime, rocking a Ralph Lauren-esque ensemble that she quickly transitioned from day to night.

First lady Melania Trump visited babies and mothers at a hospital before tea with Ghanaian first lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo on the first day of her BE BEST Africa tour.

Actor Jeffrey Wright took to Twitter on Tuesday and called First Lady Melania Trump’s trip to Ghana “garbage,” denigrating her for visiting Africa on her first solo tour around the continent.

First Lady Melania Trump made a major style statement in Ghana on Tuesday as she met with schoolchildren during a stop on her Africa tour.

First Lady Melania Trump departed Washington, D.C. for Africa — her first international solo trip — rocking a festive pair of leopard print Manolo Blahnik stilettos. 

First Lady Melania Trump leaves Monday to visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt highlighting programs successfully teaching children life well-being skills as part of her BE BEST campaign.

A bishop in Ghana has denounced China’s growing economic influence in his country, saying that, thanks to China, the people are living in “captivity in [their] own land.”

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Ghanian national convicted of carrying out a $300,000 food stamp fraud scheme to eight months behind bars Friday.

A legal immigrant from Ghana pleaded guilty this week to drugging, tying up, and molesting an elderly woman and is expected to be deported from the United States.

A Ghanian national who pleaded guilty Thursday to conducting nearly $300,000 worth of food stamp fraud may face deportation.

Contents: European-African summit calls for end to slavery auctions in Libya; AU-EU Summit creates task force to solve the slave trade problem; China drives thousands of Beijing migrants out into the winter cold

Colin Kaepernick commemorated the 4th of July by indulging in the history of the land he calls “home.” You know, Ghana.

The highest court in Ghana dismissed the decision by former President John Mahama to allow two former Guantánamo Bay prisoners entry into the West African country back in January 2016 as “unconstitutional.”

A 24-year-old Ghanian asylum seeker has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison after admitting to having raped a 15-year-old girl last summer in the German city of Duisburg.

Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo faced some backlash after he plagiarized passages from former President Bill Clinton’s and former President George W. Bush’s speeches.

Using the hashtag #GetitrightCNN, Twitter users in the African nation of Ghana are slamming CNN for a story that they say misrepresents actual conditions in their nation. Ghanaians and others interested in news from Ghana were also critical over CNN’s spelling and other factual errors.

Ghana has been rocked by the shutdown of a fake U.S. embassy run by Ghanaian and Turkish mobsters, which issued phony visas for a decade with the indulgence of corrupt Ghanaian officials.

Italian police have arrested an African immigrant after the man went on a rampage through four Roman churches, demolishing statues and knocking over candlesticks and reliquaries.

The UN’s emergency Ebola response headquarters in Ghana’s capital, Accra, is to close as the outbreak slows.