Western Ghana

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  Mining Vehicle Carrying Explosives Crashes Into Motorcycle In Ghana

  A truck carrying explosives collided with a motorcycle in western Ghana Thursday, causing an immense explosion and a huge "loss of lives", the Ghanaian president said.

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  17 Declared Dead In Ghana Goldmine Collapse: Lawmaker

  Rescuers on Thursday called off a search for miners who were trapped underground for five days after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, declaring 17 dead, a local lawmaker told AFP.

• Rashtriya Chemicals Drops Plan to Set Up $1 Billion Fertiliser Plant in Ghana: Report

  In 2010, India and Ghana had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up the urea plant with initial capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum at Shama district in western Ghana.

• Booming demand for shea, African 'women's gold', helps reduce poverty

  Sweet-lovers around the globe already consume the nut as shea butter, which is used to make chocolate, as well as in products like margarine and as a cooking oil.

• Captain Sunil James, freed from Togo jail after five months, arrives in India for baby son's last rites

  Sunil James, a Merchant Navy Captain who was released yesterday from a jail in Togo, western Africa, has reached Mumbai. His family has been waiting for him to perform the last rites of his baby son Vivaan, who died on December 2.

• Does it take the death of a baby for government to act? asks family of sailor jailed in Togo

  For five months, Indian merchant ship captain Sunil James has been in a jail in Togo in Western Africa.

• Armed robbers kill Indian in Ghana

  Armed robbers have killed a 27-year-old Indian in western Ghana, the police said here Friday. Two people have been arrested.