2024 in Ghana

Events in the year 2024 in Ghana.

Incumbents

• President – Nana Akufo-Addo
• Vice President – Mahamudu Bawumia
• Speaker of Parliament – Alban Bagbin
• Chief Justice – Kwasi Anin-Yeboah

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana

February

• 28 February – The Parliament of Ghana passes the Ghanaian anti-LGBT bill making the promotion or advocacy of LGBT rights punishable by five years in prison.

March

• 8–23 March – 2023 African Games

September

• 21 September – A fuel tanker crashes into a bus in Suhum, killing seven people and injuring 31 others.

October

• 3 October – Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year.
• 14 October – A bus falls into a ditch in Kwapia, Ashanti Region, killing 13 people.
• 18 October: Parliament speaker Alban Bagbin declares four seats held by MPs who switched parties vacant, effectively giving the opposition National Democratic Congress a majority in the legislature. The decision is overturned by the Supreme Court on 12 November.
• 26 October – Foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey is named as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 27 October – At least 20 people are killed in clashes over a chieftaincy dispute in Bawku.
• 28 October – Ghana Freedom Party leader and presidential candidate Akua Donkor dies in a hospital in Accra following an illness.

November

• 20 November – The Bank Square was commissioned as the new headquarters of the Bank of Ghana.

December

• 7 December – 2024 Ghanaian general election: Former president John Mahama is elected to a second non-consecutive term as president. His running-mate, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, also becomes the first woman to be elected as Vice-President of Ghana.

Sports

• 2023–24 Ghana Premier League
• 2023 African Games

Deaths

• 3 January – Imoro Muniratu, 72, food vendor.
• 4 January – Felicia Abban, 87, photographer.
• 9 January – Agnes Asangalisa Chigabatia, 67, politician, MP (2005–2009).
• 17 January – Mark Woyongo, 77, politician, MP (2013–2017), minister for defence (2013–2014) and the interior (2014–2017).
• 18 January – Vincent McCauley, actor (Things We Do for Love).
• 7 March – John Kumah, deputy minister of finance.

See also

• African Continental Free Trade Area

References