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Veronica Bekoe is the Ghanaian biological scientist who invented the Veronica Bucket, one of the country’s most practical public-health innovations. In the early 1990s, while working at Ghana’s Public Health Reference Laboratory, she noticed that staff often washed their hands in a shared bowl af...
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The former Member of Parliament for Savelugu, Hon. Mohamed Abdul Samed Gunu, popularly known as Somed Gunu, has died. Family sources confirmed to CDR Africa that he passed away on Wednesday, 15th October 2026, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. He was 57 years old. News of his death has...
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Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah, the veteran journalist and son of Ghana’s founding president Kwame Nkrumah, has died in Cairo at the age of 68. According to family sources, he passed away peacefully after a prolonged illness. He had been receiving care at a rehabilitation centre following a stroke. Born in...
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Former Minority Leader of Parliament and former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Arthur Odoi-Sykes, has died. Mr Odoi-Sykes passed away on Monday, October 5, 2026, according to a statement issued by his family. The former Member of Parliament for Ashiedu Keteke was also...
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Ghanaian fashion icon and actress Nana Akua Addo has reportedly been hospitalised after videos circulated online appearing to show her with facial injuries. In footage shared on social media on Tuesday, Ms Addo is seen on what appears to be a hospital bed, with a swollen lip and a cut beneath one...
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President Bola Tinubu has declared three days of national mourning following the crash of a Nigerian Air Force aircraft in Ondo State that killed all 32 people on board. The plane, an ATR-42 with tail number NGR 931, was on a routine flight from Benin City to Lagos when it went down near a naval...
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The Koblimahagu Zuo community in the Tamale Metropolis was thrown into mourning and shock on Monday morning after three missing children were found dead inside a parked vehicle. The children, aged three, five and eight, had been missing since Saturday. Their disappearance prompted a search by rel...
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A young Palestinian boy has publicly thanked Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama for his support of Palestine following the president’s address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly. The boy held a handwritten note that read: “Thank you President Mahama. We will never forget your steadfa...
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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detection dog has helped intercept approximately 72 pounds of prohibited yams, vegetables and spices from Ghana at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York. The agricultural products were discovered during a routine inspection by CBP offic...
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A helicopter crash in rural Marondera, east of Harare, on Wednesday evening killed all six people on board, the Zimbabwean government said. Family members later identified businessman Wicknell Chivayo as among the dead. The Zimbabwe Republic Police said the aircraft went down in the Marondera Rur...
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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has directed shops, markets and other commercial establishments to suspend operations from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, 3 October to take part in the National Sanitation Day clean-up. The exercise will also mark 2026 World Cleanup Day, with AMA hosting the...
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Ghanaian musician Sister Derby has criticised a growing trend in Accra of releasing balloons into the sky to honour the dead. In a post on X on 27 September, she said mourners were sending up as many as 50 to 100 balloons at vigils and asked where the debris ended up. “Like seriously? Where do we...
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