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2024 in Ghana
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Events in the year 2024 in Ghana.
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Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
February
- 28 February – The Parliament of Ghana passes the Ghanaian anti-LGBT bill making the promotion or advocacy of LGBT rights punishable by five years in prison.[1]
March
- 8–23 March – 2023 African Games
September
October
- 3 October – Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year.[3]
- 14 October – A bus falls into a ditch in Kwapia, Ashanti Region, killing 13 people.[4]
- 18 October: Parliament speaker Alban Bagbin declares four seats held by MPs who switched parties vacant, effectively giving the opposition National Democratic Congress a majority in the legislature.[5] The decision is overturned by the Supreme Court on 12 November.[6]
- 26 October – Foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey is named as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.[7]
- 27 October – At least 20 people are killed in clashes over a chieftaincy dispute in Bawku.[8]
- 28 October – Ghana Freedom Party leader and presidential candidate Akua Donkor dies in a hospital in Accra following an illness.[9]
November
- 20 November – The Bank Square was commissioned as the new headquarters of the Bank of Ghana.[10]
December
- 7 December – 2024 Ghanaian general election: Former president John Mahama is elected to a second non-consecutive term as president.[11] His running-mate, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, also becomes the first woman to be elected as Vice-President of Ghana.[12]
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- 3 January – Imoro Muniratu, 72, food vendor.
- 4 January – Felicia Abban, 87, photographer.
- 9 January – Agnes Asangalisa Chigabatia, 67, politician, MP (2005–2009).
- 17 January – Mark Woyongo, 77, politician, MP (2013–2017), minister for defence (2013–2014) and the interior (2014–2017).[14]
- 18 January – Vincent McCauley, actor (Things We Do for Love).[15]
- 7 March – John Kumah, deputy minister of finance.[16]
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