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France defends abstention on UN slave trade resolution
France justified abstaining on a UN resolution recognising the slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.
![Dominic Frimpong was a winger for Berekum Chelsea, a club in the Ghana Premier League [X/@AmoakoKwam]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HFxNvnhXUAAb3OX-1776067981.jpeg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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Ghana pushes for slave trade to be declared a crime against Humanity
Ghana’s foreign minister proposed a resolution recognizing the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity.
Published On 22 Mar 2026
Former Arsenal player Partey to plead not guilty to 2 new rape charges
Ghana international Thomas Partey faced initial charges of rape just days after leaving Arsenal last summer.
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West African regional army: Why thousands of soldiers are deploying
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Ukraine alleges Russia enlists more than 1,700 Africans to fight
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The sought-after striker becomes the Premier League club’s first signing of the January transfer window.
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Nigeria’s president says he sent fighter jets, troops to Benin to help quell a coup attempt by mutinous soldiers.
Accused, shunned, exiled: The women banished to Ghana’s ‘witch camps’
Women accused of witchcraft are cast out of their communities in north Ghana. Now some are trying to break this cycle.
![“I’ve lived in this camp for 45 years,” says Bachalibanoya. After her husband’s death, the children of his other wife accused her of witchcraft—an allegation that would alter the course of her life. Now the oldest resident of the Gambaga camp, she has lived in exile for more than four decades. [Claire Thomas/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CT_GHANA_9MAY25_0186-1763638267-1-1763884262.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
‘A soul mission’: The African Americans moving to Ghana
As ‘returnees’ build a home in the country where their ancestors may have come from, questions arise about integration.
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As UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting.
