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Texas Kadri Moro, the Executive Director of Arise for Justice International, protests with placards nailed on a cross on the street of Accra, Ghana, Thursday Sept 12, 2024. Texas Kadiri Moro is an unusual figure amid the LGBTQ+ rights activists in the coastal West African nation of Ghana. He is heterosexual, married to a woman and a father of six. He is a teacher. And he is a practising Muslim. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)

Meet the straight ally who is protesting Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ bill

By Francis Kokutse - Associated Press

Texas Kadri Moro, the Executive Director of Arise for Justice International, protests with placards nailed on a cross on the street of Accra, Ghana, Thursday Sept 12, 2024. Texas Kadiri Moro is an unusual figure amid the LGBTQ+ rights activists in the coastal West African nation of Ghana. He is heterosexual, married to a woman and a father of six. He is a teacher. And he is a practising Muslim. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)

Clad in pink, one heterosexual man protests Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill

By Francis Kokutse - Associated Press

Niaz Mardan wraps a luxury handmade Belgian chocolate rabbit at Sandrine a chocolate shop in south west London, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Niaz Mardan, is suffering due to high cocoa prices, she's making no profits and fears she will have to close the shop that's been around for 25 years (she's the third owner and took over in 2019). (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

It’s a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but big brands see profits

By Francis Kokutse and Jessica Donati - Associated Press

Niaz Mardan wraps a luxury handmade Belgian chocolate rabbit at Sandrine a chocolate shop in south west London, Thursday, March 21, 2024. Niaz Mardan, is suffering due to high cocoa prices, she's making no profits and fears she will have to close the shop that's been around for 25 years (she's the third owner and took over in 2019). (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

It’s a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but big brands see profits

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In this photo provided by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024 a view of a cast gold badge, worn by the Asantehene's or king's 'soul washer' as a badge of office, originating from Ghana. Two British museums are returning gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement, 150 years after the items were looted from the Asante people during Britain’s colonial battles in West Africa.(Dominic Naish, Victoria and Albert Museum, London via AP)

A pair of U.K. museums return gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Egypt's Mohamed Salah receives medical treatment during the African Cup of Nations Group B soccer match between Egypt and Ghana in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, Jan.18, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Mohamed Salah goes off injured during Egypt’s game against Ghana at Africa Cup

By CIARÁN FAHEY - Associated Press

Ghana's head coach Chris Hughton during the African Cup of Nations Group B soccer match between Ghana and Cape Verde in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Ghana coach Hughton to make late decision on Kudus’ fitness for Africa Cup match against Egypt

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UN soldiers stand guard in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 30, 2012. The United Nations Peacekeeping efforts is under resourced as its $5.5 billion budget for worldwide operations is less than the New York Police Department's $6.1 billion budget, even though it has 30,000 more personnel, the UN Under-Secretary General, Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 at a two-day UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting in Accra, Ghana. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

United Nations bemoans struggles to fund peacekeeping as nations demand withdrawal of missions

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Community members sit in Materi town, Benin, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023, waiting for a distribution of small portable stoves. Groups linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State group have been spreading for years from the vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert — the Sahel — into wealthier West African coastal states like Benin. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Groups linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State take root on the coast of West Africa

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

United States' Gio Reyna arrives for an international friendly soccer match against Germany at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in East Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

In wake of Reyna-Berhalter feud, U.S. Soccer Federation discussing rule to curb parent pressuring

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FILE - Supporters of Capt. Ibrahim Traore parade wave a Russian flag in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Oct. 2, 2022. Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo, during his visit to the United States where he's attending the U.S.-Africa summit, claimed Burkina Faso had allegedly made an agreement with Russia's shadowy mercenary outfit the Wagner Group to bolster the country's security amid surging jihadi violence, in exchange for a mine. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia, File)

Ghana forcibly deports hundreds of people who had fled extremist violence in Burkina Faso, says U.N.

By Francis Kokutse and Zane Irwin - Associated Press

Health officials prepare to administer a vaccine in the Malawi village of Tomali with the world's first vaccine against malaria in a pilot program in Tomali, Dec. 11, 2019. The University of Oxford said Thursday April 13, 2023 that Ghana is the first country to approve a new Malaria vaccine in a "first crucial step" to helping children combat the disease. The vaccine —known as R21/Matrix-M — is not yet public, but Ghana's Food and Drug Authority has granted full approval for children between five and 36 months(AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris addresses youth gathered on Black Star square in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Vice President Harris finds new connections in Africa as historic figure

By Chris Megerian - Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris lays a wreath at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, Tuesday March 28, 2023. This castle in was one of around 40 "slave castles" that served as prisons and embarkation points for slaves en route to the Americas. Harris is on a seven-day African visit that will also take her to Tanzania and Zambia. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Harris out to reframe U.S. views on Africa, foster partnership

By Chris Megerian and Francis Kokutse - Associated Press

In Ghana, Kamala Harris ‘excited about the future of Africa’

By Chris Megerian - Associated Press