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• At least 21 killed in Ghana tanker explosion
ACCRA, Ghana - At least 21 people were killed Wednesday after a tanker carrying gasoline overturned on a highway and exploded as people were trying to take the fuel, police said. Seth Oteng, a regional police commander, said the accident occurred on ...
• Vatican exhibit on display only in Houston
The museum's collection of hand-carved coffins from Ghana, crafted to represent the life of the deceased, include ones shaped to resemble a crab, a fishing canoe and a chicken. "Only a certain segment of people are interested in caskets and mourning ...
• Wildlife smuggling ring busted in Africa
A four-month investigation coordinated by Interpol, an international police association based in Lyon, France, led to the arrest of 57 suspects in the Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, the Kenyan conservation agency said in a ...
• Large malaria vaccine trial to start in Africa
The massive vaccine trials will be conducted in Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. Loucq, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, said the project has been working over the past year to upgrade laboratory ...
• Activist-singer Makeba dies at 76
Makeba died at the Pineta Grande clinic in Castel Volturno, near the southern city of Naples, after singing at a concert in solidarity with six immigrants from Ghana who were shot to death in September in the town. Investigators have blamed the ...