ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana police say they arrested three armed men on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the Ivory Coast government.

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NABARI, Ghana (AP) — In the village of Nabari on northern Ghana's dry savanna, 80-year-old Wudana Dokurugu lives with other widows in a clump of mud huts. They farm maize and soybeans in impoverished soil, and say their food never lasts to the next harvest.

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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — World leaders joined thousands of Ghanaians on Friday for the funeral of President John Atta Mills, who came to symbolize Ghana's maturing democracy in a region long plagued by coups and disputed votes.

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Thousands of mourners including African leaders, dignitaries and ordinary Ghanaians attended the state funeral on Friday of president John Atta Mills, who died last month ahead of a re-election bid.

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Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama, who was sworn in last week after his predecessor died, named the governor of the Bank of Ghana as his deputy on Tuesday.

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Ghana will hold a state funeral service and burial for late president John Atta Mills on August 10 after his death this week following an illness, the government announced on Friday.

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Ghana's President John Atta Mills, who died suddenly on Tuesday five months before he was due to stand for reelection, was a law professor turned politician who had long sought his country's top job. He was 68.

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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — State-run television in Ghana is announcing that President John Atta Mills has died at age 68.

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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana's attorney general is examining whether to open a formal investigation after a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer stabbed an alleged robber who subsequently died, police in the West African country said Tuesday.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Quaker Christian school that UBS trader Kweku Adoboli attended as a teenager made quiet periods of reflection a daily part of student life.

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SUNYANI, Ghana (Reuters) - Ghanaian President John Atta Mills won a landslide victory on Saturday in the race to become the ruling party's candidate in next year's election and said he would address concerns raised by rivals.

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Accra — Every day they risk their lives for a few cents: scavenging piles of garbage for pieces of metals and e-waste. On Africa's dumping sites the will to survive is stronger than the fear of illness or death.

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Pressure is mounting on Ghana to introduce Biotech/GM [Genetically Modified] Crops into its agricultural framework and allow for the production of biotech foods on commercial scale.

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ACCRA (Reuters) - A cholera epidemic in Ghana has killed 60 people and infected almost 4,000 since the first cases emerged last September, with 482 new cases reported this week alone, health authorities said on Friday.

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ACCRA, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The state-run Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) announced here on Friday that it had begun a process to identify and dismiss 194 illegal members of staff.