The Right to Information law increasing accountability was adopted. The President commuted death sentences into life imprisonment, but courts continued to hand down death sentences, and prison conditions remained deplorable. Attacks against journalists were reported; one journalist was killed and...

Thousands of people living and working next to railway lines in Accra, Ghana face imminent forced eviction to make way for the redevelopment of the railway system. Known as the Railway Dwellers, the men, women and children who live and trade in kiosks and small structures built along the railway...

Thousands of people living and working next to disused railway lines in Accra, Ghana face imminent forced eviction to make way for the redevelopment of the railway system. Known as the Railway Dwellers, the men, women and children who live and trade in kiosks and small structures built along the...

Abdel Hakim Ben Amer Abubaker, a Libyan national; his wife and four children, Sudanese nationals: The above are currently being held at Accra Airport and there is concern that they may be forcibly returned to Libya. Abdel Hakim Ben Amer Abubaker, a Libyan opposition activist, fled Libya in 1989,...

The more than 3,000 refugees from Liberia on board the Bulk Challenge have been allowed off the freighter in the Ghanaian port of Takoradi and their situation is under review by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Some 3,500 refugees from the war in Liberia, who fled on the freighter Bulk Challenge, are in danger of being forcibly returned to Liberia where their lives may be at risk. They have already been refused the right to seek asylum in Cote d’Ivoire and may be denied this right in Ghana, in violation...

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