Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people. It was the largest group to be granted citizenship at one time since Ghana launched its “Year of the Return” initiative in 2019.

Bowers and her husband, Damon Smith, however, are among the 524 diaspora members, mostly Black Americans, who were granted Ghanaian citizenship in a ceremony in November. Bowers and Smith moved to Ghana from Florida in 2023 after visiting the region several times between them since the '90s.

Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people from the Black diaspora, most of them Black Americans, as part of its “Year of the Return” initiative.

A massive fire broke out at Kantamanto Market, one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets, in Accra, Ghana, on New Year¥s Day, January 1, destroying hundreds of traders’ stalls. Authorities stated that the cause is under investigation,

Tullow Oil said on Thursday the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has ruled that the Branch Profit Remittance Tax (BPRT) does not apply to its operations in the Deepwater Tano and West Cape Three Points fields offshore Ghana.

Tullow Plc gained after an international body found it wasn’t liable for a $320 million tax assessment in Ghana, where its key oil assets are located.