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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 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 ...
This was in line with what the Brong Kyempem movement had been campaigning for, which was the recognition of the Bono people as a separate ethnic group from the Ashantis with their own region. [5] On the day Ghana became a republic, 1 July 1960, the Northern Region got split into the Northern and Upper regions raising the number of regions to ...
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.
History of Ghana; Akan people; Gold Coast region; Bonoman; Denkyira; Mankessim Kingdom; Dagbang; Ashanti Empire; United Gold Coast Convention; The Big Six; Kwame Nkrumah; Timeline; Early history (pre-1902) British rule (1821–1957) Dominion (1957–1960) First Republic (1960–1966) Second Republic (1966–1979) Third Republic (1979–1993 ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Ghana: Ghana – sovereign country in West Africa in Africa. [1] The word "Ghana" means "Warrior King", [2] and was the source of the name "Guinea" (via French Guinoye) used to refer to the West African coast (as in Gulf of Guinea).
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.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Accra, Ghana This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .