Tag Archives: COAST

A Singapore-registered oil tanker has been boarded by “unidentified persons” about 300 nautical miles (555km) off Ivory Coast in the Gulf of Guinea, the city-state’s port authority said. The Gulf of Guinea was long known as a hotspot for global piracy, with insurance firm Beazley offering the “Gulf of Guinea …

A man identified as Nana Swanzy K has shared a video of how he narrowly escaped death after a driver with registration number GE 5198-15 overtook his vehicle on the Winneba-Cape Coast Road. In a 15-second video he shared on Facebook, the said man swerved into the bush in an …

About 21 passengers have been seriously injured in an accident at Gomoa Odumase near Anteadze on the Kasoa Cape Coast Highway. The accident was between a sprinter Benz bus with the registration GW 9678-12 and VW Jetta GT 8661-09. In the last 24 hours, 45 passengers have been injured in …

At least 73 migrants are reported missing and presumed dead after an inflatable rubber boat sunk off the coast of Libya, the UN’s International Organization for Migration said.   The boat, crammed with around 80 migrants, reportedly departed from the village of Qasr al-Akhyar, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of …

The High Court in Cape Coast has sentenced Bright Ellis, the man accused of killing Cape Coast-based dancehall artiste Unruly Grank, to death. The court, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Lodoh, sentenced the accused person to death by hanging. Reacting to the court’s decision, the mother of the deceased dancehall …

Forty-six Ivorian soldiers accused by Mali of being mercenaries have returned home after six months in captivity. The troops arrived at Ivory Coast’s Abidjan airport late on Saturday, a day after receiving a pardon from Mali’s military ruler. Their arrest in the Malian capital of Bamako in July of last …

A court in Mali has sentenced 46 soldiers from Ivory Coast to 20 years imprisonment for conspiring against the government, and three others to death in absentia. The soldiers were also fined more than $3,000 and convicted of carrying and transporting weapons, Prosecutor General Ladji Sara said in a statement …

One person died while nine others sustained injuries in an accident at Eguase near Cape Coast in the Central Region on Sunday afternoon. The accident which involved four vehicles left one vehicle completely burnt. According to an eyewitness, a Mercedes Benz C300 which was traveling from Mankessim towards Cape Coast, …

Veteran Reggae musician, Shasha Marley, has recalled how his song, ‘Maata Family’, brought him embarrassment from a group of children in Cape Coast. According to the veteran, the word ‘Fish’ in his song has given people the impression that he was talking about ‘fart’ which isn’t the case. “I got to …

  GhanaWeb can confirm that the Cape Coast stadium has been without electricity and water supply for the last ten days due to the National Sports Authority’s failure to pay the two service providers. According to our sources, the development has the tendency of affecting Ghana’s CHAN qualifier against Benin …