In a controversial move, Ghanaian lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed a bill criminalizing homosexual activity, brushing aside warnings from Western governments, including the US and France. The legislation, officially titled the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill but widely known as the Anti-Gay Bill, received unanimous approval from parliament on Wednesday, marking the culmination... 

Ghana has given regulatory clearance to a new malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University scientists. The West African country is the first in the world to approve the use of the R21/Matrix-MTM serum, the university said on Thursday. The vaccine has been endorsed by Ghana’s drug regulator, the Food and Drugs Authority, “for use in children aged five to 36 months, the age group at the highest... 

This has got to be the funniest Football news report you have EVER seen in your life. Watch how Ghana’s UTV presents the scores between European football clubs. The way he pronounces these names is priceless. Sure Africans in general have a lower IQ so this kind of explains it but still… this is insane and funniest thing ever, for example he calls Sheffield United: “shflf unatad”... 

A statue of world-famous Indian independence activist and pacifist Mahatma Gandhi has been removed from the University of Ghana campus after protests from students and faculty over racist remarks he made against Africans. The Gandhi statue was unveiled in Accra two years ago but was removed in the middle of the night 2 weeks ago by order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. Ghana’s... 

A UK Foreign Aid project to the value of £11 million ($14 million) in northern Ghana not only failed to alleviate poverty in its targeted 26,500 African villagers, but also resulting in a lower “cognitive test score” in the population, an official report has revealed. The report, titled “Impact Evaluation Of The Sada Millennium Villages Project In Northern Ghana: Endline Summary Report,”... 

Up to 5,000 US blacks have moved back to Ghana—and thousands more to other African states—over the past few years as part of a growing movement to live in a society in which they say they will be able to live in a world “in which black people are in charge.” The slowly growing “return to Africa” movement was highlighted in a recent article on the Al Jazeera news service, titled “Why... 

The World Health Organization (WHO) is hosting an emergency meeting in Ghana as the death toll from the deadly Ebola virus keeps rising in West Africa. Health officials from eleven African countries are meeting in Ghana’s capital city of Accra on Wednesday to find a way to contain the deadliest outbreak of the virus in history. Representatives from Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the... 

Sailors prepare to board Argentinean frigate Libertad in Tema, Ghana on December 19, 2012, after an international tribunal ordered its release. An Argentinean warship has left Ghana after a UN court ordered its release following an injunction by a US hedge fund to detain it in Accra. Port spokesman Lawrence Atumbine said the Libertad set sail from the port of Tema after Ghana’s Supreme Court “nullified”... 

A sailor from the Argentinean frigate Libertad seized in a port in Ghana in connection with a debt dispute, runs pas the frigate at Tema Port near Accra. Argentina prepared, October 21, 2012 Argentina has lost its international court battle against a US hedge fund over an impounded navy ship in Accra after a judge blocked an attempt to challenge the authority of Ghanaian courts. Accra’s Commercial... 

A sailor from the Argentinian frigate Libertad seized in a port in Ghana in connection with a debt dispute, runs pas the frigate at Tema Port near Accra. Argentina prepared, October 21, 2012 Argentina has warned Ghana that it will take legal action in an international court if it refuses to release a naval vessel it has seized. “The Ghanaian government has until tomorrow, Tuesday 13, to sort out...