Carlos Queiroz named Ghana head coach before World Cup
The Portuguese coach takes charge after the sacking of Otto Addo, and will lead the Black Stars at the FIFA World Cup.
![Dominic Frimpong was a winger for Berekum Chelsea, a club in the Ghana Premier League [X/@AmoakoKwam]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HFxNvnhXUAAb3OX-1776067981.jpeg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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West African regional army: Why thousands of soldiers are deploying
How will strained ties between ECOWAS and neighbours Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso affect the fight against armed groups?
Ukraine alleges Russia enlists more than 1,700 Africans to fight
Ghana’s foreign minister says many of the Africans are victims of deception, lured by the promise of jobs.
Ghana’s Semenyo signs $87m deal to join Manchester City from Bournemouth
The sought-after striker becomes the Premier League club’s first signing of the January transfer window.
Nigeria says it deployed jets, troops to Benin to ‘dislodge coup plotters’
Nigeria’s president says he sent fighter jets, troops to Benin to help quell a coup attempt by mutinous soldiers.
Accused, shunned, exiled: The women banished to Ghana’s ‘witch camps’
Women accused of witchcraft are cast out of their communities in north Ghana. Now some are trying to break this cycle.
![“I’ve lived in this camp for 45 years,” says Bachalibanoya. After her husband’s death, the children of his other wife accused her of witchcraft—an allegation that would alter the course of her life. Now the oldest resident of the Gambaga camp, she has lived in exile for more than four decades. [Claire Thomas/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CT_GHANA_9MAY25_0186-1763638267-1-1763884262.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
‘A soul mission’: The African Americans moving to Ghana
As ‘returnees’ build a home in the country where their ancestors may have come from, questions arise about integration.
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Ghana’s waste pickers brave mountains of plastic – and big industry
Accra has been picked by a World Bank bond to end the waste crisis. But for informal recyclers, it is a false solution.
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Plastic credits: A ‘false solution’ or the answer to global plastic waste?
As UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting.
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Ghana helicopter crash kills defence, environment ministers
A helicopter crash in Ghana’s Ashanti region killed the country’s defence and environment ministers.
Published On 6 Aug 2025
Former Arsenal midfielder Partey granted bail on rape charge
The Ghana international, who left Arsenal this summer, has been charged with sexual assaults on three women.
