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The Jan. 2 blaze at the Kantamanto Market in Ghana's capital city of Accra reduced huge swaths of the market to ashes, destroying millions of items of used clothing and jeopardizing the ...

"When I was 10 years old, I was supposed to come to Ghana with him," she said. A day earlier, she had marked 10 years since her father's death. Though he was a Pan-Africanist who dreamed of ...

A huge fire that erupted at a clothing market in Ghana’s capital Accra has destroyed hundreds of livelihoods and businesses. The fire at Kantamanto Market – one of the world’s largest ...

“He joined the ancestors when I was 10 years old. I was supposed to come to Ghana with him,” she said. Bowers and her husband, Damon Smith, are among the 524 diaspora members, mostly Black ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people from the Black diaspora, and most were Black Americans. It ...

People try to salvage items from the burned down secondhand clothing market at Kantamanto in Accra, Ghana, on January 2, 2025. NIPAH DENNIS / AFP A raging inferno that swept through the bustling ...

A devastating fire broke out at Ghana’s Kantamanto Market in the early hours of 2 January, leaving thousands of clothing recycling and upcycling businesses displaced — and thrusting fashion’s lack of ...

All African passport holders are now able to visit Ghana without needing a visa, outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo has said. He announced the plan last month but in his final state-of-the-nation ...