20100628
africanews

Ghana will appeal against the decision to suspend influential midfielder Andre Dede Ayew from their crucial quarter-finals game against Uruguay following his accumulation of another yellow card during Saturday's 2-1 win over the United States at the World Cup, media reports say.

20100627
africanews

West African nation Ghana made history in the 2010 World Cup as the only African side to qualify for the quarter finals. It was the first time in eight years that an African team has made it to the last eight in the global football fiesta in South Africa.

20100626
africanews

Ghana cut the number of malnourished people by 75% between 1990 and 2004. Ghana, often hailed as a success story in West African agriculture, tops a global list of 10 countries that have managed to slash their number of hungry people by a huge margin.

20100625
africanews

Ghana players are taking $ 45,000 each for advancing to the second round of the 2010 World Cup.

20100622
allafrica

Ghana need just a draw against Germany in their World Cup Group D clash at Soccer City on Wednesday night to advance to the Last 16 in their second successive finals tournament.

20100622
africanews

Thirty-five bodies have so far been retrieved from floodwaters across the West African nation, Ghana, by volunteers and rescue workers who described the havoc after Sunday's downpour as the worst flood disaster in country's recent history. The rains were recorded around the capital, Accra, and the central region of the country.

20100621
africanews

One of Africa's finest and most decorated investigative journalists Anas Aremeyaw Anas with the New Crusading Guide named winner of the 2010 Excellence in Journalism Award's Community Reporting category.

20100620
voanews

A senior official of Ghana’s government says President John Atta Mills will be holding bilateral talks with his Angolan counterpart, President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, in the capital, Accra Monday.

20100620
allafrica

Ghana were left frustrated at the end of their World Cup Group D clash on Saturday, managing only a 1-1 draw against the 10 men of Australia.

Australia took the lead through Brett Holman on 11 minutes, but Asamoah Gyan equalised from the penalty spot after Harry Kewell had handled on the line and been sent to the stands.

20100613
allafrica

African football scored a first World Cup success on day three of competition in South Africa as Ghana grabbed a late winner to beat Serbia 1-0 in Pretoria on Sunday.

20100612
allafrica

Ghana open their 2010 FIFA World Cup Group D campaign against Serbia at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria on Sunday, hoping to overcome the loss of key man Michael Essien in the build-up to the finals.

20100610
Afrol

Ghana, expected to become a net oil exporter next year, has been endowed with yet another offshore oil discovery. The Ghanaian deepwater offshore region now seems commercially viable, but analysts warn of an emerging "oil curse".

20100604
africanews

A 12-year-old Ghanaian student Kwabena Asumadu has been crowned the national winner of the Doodle 4 Google 'Love Football' competition. The competition was for students to design a Google Doodle - the interpretation of the Google logo, around the theme 'Love Football'.

20100601
Reuters

Ghana's president John Evans Atta Mills has ordered cabinet ministers and other government appointees of the West African country not to travel to South Africa to watch the 2010 World Cup. He said apart from those directly in charge of sports, all the others must stay in Ghana during the tournament.

20100527
africa news

Security and political authorities in Ghana and Togo have agreed that appropriate conditions are on the ground for Ghanaian refugees who fled the northern conflict in Ghana to Togo to return home.