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2018 November - Ghana hosted Women's African cup of Nations tournament. [20] 2018 December- on 27 December there was a referendum to divide parts of the regions to add Six additional regions to the ten regions [21] 2019 April - Ghana first brain surgery (Endovascular brain aneurysm coiling) at Euracare Advanced Diagnostic and Heart Centre in ...
The regions of Ghana are the first level of subnational government administration within the Republic of Ghana. As of 2020, there are 16 regions, [ 1 ] which are further divided for administrative purposes into 260 local metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (or MMDA's) .
The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [1] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...
The region in which these towns developed lacked fertile lands for agricultural activities. It was instead rich in Kaolin clay . This enabled the women of the area to use the kaolin clay to manufacture cooking pots, bowls, water jars, palm wine vessels and pots for brewing traditional medicine for people in the Accra plains, Akuapem and Shai.
Europeans reached this region of Africa in 1482, and for centuries afterwards, various European empires and trading companies set up trading posts, known as factories there. They used these colonies to exploit the resources rather than to settle large numbers of subjects. The Portuguese Gold Coast was the first claim. [2]
The Ghana Empire (Arabic: غانا), also known as simply Ghana, [2] Ghanata, or Wagadu, was a West African classical to post-classical era western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali. It is uncertain among historians when Ghana's ruling dynasty began.
1955 – Ghana International School founded. 1956 Accra Central Library established (approximate date). Ghanaian Arts Council headquartered in Accra. [24] 1957 6 March: Accra becomes capital of independent Republic of Ghana. [2] State House, National Museum of Ghana, and Independence Arch built. [25] [26] Catholic Holy Spirit Cathedral opened.
The administrative divisions of the Republic of Ghana consist of four geographic terrestrial plains and 16 regions. [1] For local government, there are a total of 261 districts including 145 ordinary districts, 109 municipal districts, and six metropolitan districts.