Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voters in Ghana elected the country’s first woman vice president, Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, in early December 2024. Voters also ...

TSOKOMEY, Ghana — Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a family tradition she’s ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer – an unusual choice for a young woman in a working-class neighborhood of Ghana's capital of ...

TSOKOMEY, Ghana (AP) — In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves. Hundreds of women in the West African nation were ...

Every day Esi Akomade, a mother-of-five from Mumford in Central Ghana, heads down to the beach at 4am to purchase sardines, mackerel, and anchovies from the catch of fishermen arriving home in their ...

Mona Boyd, an African American woman and entrepreneur who has called Ghana home for more than 30 years, is the owner of AnoMansa Beach Resort, located just six minutes from the historic Elmina Castle ...

In Ghana, DW Akademie works with women journalists as they try to advance in their careers despite gender barriers.

ACCRA, GhanaACCRA, Ghana — Misper Apawu is a photographer who works with The Associated Press in Ghana. She has covered politics, breaking news and sports. This feature is part of a series ...

In Accra’s boardrooms and regulatory offices, something is changing. Women are being appointed to some of the most powerful jobs in the economy, shaping monetary policy, overseeing oil and mining ...