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Between 1966 and 1970, he was a foreign service officer and First Secretary at the Ghana Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. [6] [10] [11] He rose through the ranks to become the Chief of State Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 1975 to 1979. [12]
On February 24, 1966, the government of Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a military coup d'état. Leaders of the established coup, including army officers Colonel E.K. Kotoka, Major A. A. Afrifa, Lieutenant General (retired) J. A. Ankrah, and Police Inspector General J.W.K. Harlley, justified their takeover by charging that the CPP administration was abusive and corrupt.
September 1979 - Ghana returns to constitutional rule. [4] 24 September 1979 - Hilla Limann, leader of the People's National Party (PNP), sworn in as president of Ghana. [4] 24 September 1979 - the Third Republic begins.
Gbeho was Deputy High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's (UK) from 1972 until 1976, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the European offices of the United Nations in Geneva (1978–80), with concurrent accreditation to UNIDO in Vienna, Austria, [3] and was Ghana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York ...
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 ...
He served as Ghana's Charge de Affair to the United States of America from 2 July 1972 to 18 July 1972. Prior to this appointment, he was Ghana's High Commissioner to Kenya from 1969 to 1970, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and First Secretary to the Ghana permanent mission to the United States of America from 1962 to 1964.
The inauguration ceremony in Ghana began at around 10 a.m. local time on Jan. 7, or around 2 a.m. Pacific Time in Los Angeles. A few hours after it ended, now 10:30 a.m. in L.A., the Palisades ...
Per capita gross domestic product (GDP) showed negative growth throughout the 1960s and fell by 3.2 percent per year from 1970 to 1981. [1] Most important was the decline in cocoa production, which fell by half between the mid-1960s and the late 1970s, drastically reducing Ghana's share of the world market from about one-third in the early ...