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The 2024 Ghanaian general election took place on 7 December 2024 to elect Members of Parliament (MPs) to the 9th Parliament of the Fourth Republic. [1] The Speaker is not an elected member of parliament though must be qualified to stand for election as such. There are a total of 276 constituencies in Ghana. The 9th Parliament first convened on ...
12 September 2024 [59] Contested 2020 election [58] Ghana Union Movement: Christian Kwabena Andrews: 9 September 2024 [57] Contested 2020 election [58] Liberal Party of Ghana: Percival Kofi Akpaloo: 9 September 2024 [60] [57] Contested 2020 election [58] National Democratic Congress: John Mahama: 9 September 2024 [57] President of Ghana (2012 ...
3 October: Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year. [2]14 October: A bus falls into a ditch in Kwapia, Ashanti Region, killing 13 people. [3]18 October: Parliament speaker Alban Bagbin declares four seats held by MPs who switched parties vacant, effectively giving the opposition National Democratic Congress a majority in the legislature. [4]
Orthographic projection centred over Alert, Nunavut. Alert is 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Cape Sheridan, the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, on the shore of the ice-covered Lincoln Sea. Alert lies just 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole; the nearest Canadian city is Iqaluit, the capital of the territory of Nunavut, 2,092 km (1,300 mi) distant.
A second election took place three months later on March 2, 2009. [8] [9] During the second election, John Ningark beat out his opponent Steve Mapsalak 193 votes to 179. [10] The 2008 election was also unusual in that one electoral district, South Baffin, saw no candidates nominated in time for the general election. A by-election was scheduled ...
Akua Donkor was again elected to contest the 2024 presidential election on the ticket of the Ghana Freedom party and was part of the 13 presidential candidates cleared by the electoral commission of Ghana. [12] But she died on 28 October 2024 at Greater Accra Regional Hospital following an illness and the party is yet to elect her replacement ...
Nunavut Jose Kusugak (2 May 1950 – 18 [ 1 ] or 19 [ 2 ] January 2011) was an Inuk politician from Repulse Bay, Northwest Territories (now Naujaat , Nunavut ), Canada. He was an activist for Inuit rights, language and culture .
Located on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, Alert is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [1] It takes its name from HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan, Nunavut in 1875–1876. [6] U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson in front of CFS Alert welcome sign