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1944, March 24- Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the republic of Ghana. [27] 1947, June 22 - John Jerry Rawlings, former president of the republic of Ghana. [28] 1958, November 29 - John Dramani Mahama, president of Ghana, [29] as successor to President John Atta Mills after his demise. 1963, October 7 - Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president of ...
This article is a list of military conflicts involving Ghana and includes conflicts such as coups. Wars. Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Congo Crisis [1]
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 ...
Map of the Ashanti Empire. c. 1675 – c. 1701 Independence of the Ashanti Empire. 1701 Battle of Feyiase; 1652–1784 Anglo–Dutch Wars. 1780–1784 Fourth Anglo–Dutch War. 1781–1782 Shirley's Gold Coast expedition. February 20, 1782 Battle of Elmina; 1824–1901 Anglo–Ashanti wars. 1806–1816 Earlier wars. 1806–1807 Ashanti–Fante ...
Africa–Soviet Union relations are the diplomatic, political, military, and cultural relationships between the Soviet Union and Africa from the 1945 to 1991. The Soviets took little interest until the decolonisation of Africa of the 1950s and early 1960s which created opportunities to expand their influence. Africans were not receptive to the ...
The bitter 1904–1907 war between imperial Germany and the Herero tribe in today's Namibia is an illustration of this pattern, with tragic consequences for the indigenous resistance, including concentration camps, forced labor and a scorched earth extermination policy that even some contemporary Germans found repugnant.
1939 September 1 — Fall of Poland — With the last battle over, the Polish territory is divided between Germany, Slovakia, the Soviet Union and Lithuania. Poland is divided between its neighbors 1939 September 10 — The Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty is signed, in which parts of the Soviet-occupied Vilnius Region is awarded to ...
This tradition states that Ghana Soumaba Cisse, at the time a vassal of the Sosso, rebelled with Kangaba and became part of a loose federation of Mande-speaking states. After Soumaoro's defeat at the Battle of Kirina in 1235 (a date again assigned arbitrarily by Delafosse), the new rulers of Koumbi Saleh became permanent allies of the Mali ...