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The Accra Sport Stadium disaster occurred at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, on 9 May 2001. It killed 126 people, making it the worst stadium disaster to have ever taken place in Africa. [1] [2] It is also the third-deadliest disaster in the history of association football behind the Estadio Nacional and Kanjuruhan Stadium disasters. [3]
Ghana is a country of origin, transit, and destination for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and forced prostitution. [2] The nonconsensual exploitation of Ghanaian citizens, particularly children , is more common than the trafficking of foreign migrants . [ 2 ]
Orkney, South Africa: 62 31 August 1987 A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.4 kilometers to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. 10 others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion. [105] [106] Welkom, South Africa: 31 27 ...
The rankings of 141 nations were compiled by the World Economic Forum, and these are some dangerous destinations that you might want to leave off of your bucket list. According to the list ...
This record saw Ghana surpass South Africa in output for the first time, making Ghana the largest gold producer in Africa. [144] In addition to gold, Ghana exports silver, timber, diamonds, bauxite, and manganese, and has other mineral deposits. [145] Ghana ranks 9th in the world in diamond export and reserve size. [146]
Denkyira or Denkyera was a powerful nation of Akan people that existed before the 1620s, in what is now modern-day Ghana.Before 1620, Denkyira was called Agona.The ruler of the Denkyira was called Denkyirahene and the capital was Jukwaa.
Most witch hunts today take place in modern sub-Saharan Africa.The majority of ethnographic literature on the subject remains on a local level. Summarizing studies and meta-analysis remain scarce due to the amount of data involved.
The involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War intensifies, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 takes place, and the Six-Day War occurs in 1967. France and China, two nations which have not signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty, acquire and test nuclear weapons (the 1960 Gerboise Bleue and the 1964 596 , respectively) to assert themselves as ...