2021 in Ghana
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Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
- 7 January – 2020 Ghanaian general election: The Ghana Army steps in to put down a fight in Parliament. President Nana Akufo-Addo is sworn in for another term.[1]
- 21 January – Police arrest 11 in a ″baby-harvesting″ scheme in Accra and Tema.[2]
- 9 January – Parliament is forced to close for three weeks after 17 Members and 171 staff contract COVID-19.[3]
- 24 February
- 20 May - 2021 Ghana gay arrests
- 11 June – During the 2021 United Nations Security Council Elections, Ghana was elected to serve a two-year term on the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member. Its term, starting in 2022, will mark the fourth time Ghana has sat on the Security Council.[7]
Sports
- 2020–21 Ghana Premier League
- 24 August to 5 September – Ghana at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Deaths
- 2 January – Sakib Bamba, religious leader, chief Imam of Ejura.[8]
- 18 January – Joshua Kyeremeh, politician; kidney complications.[9]
- 23 January – Abukari Gariba, 81, Olympic footballer (1968, 1972).[10]
- 1 February – Joshua Hamidu, 85, military officer and diplomat, Chief of the Defence Staff (1978–1979), High Commissioner to Zambia (1978) and Nigeria (2003–2005).[11]
- 9 February – Emmanuel Kojo Dadson, 68, actor (Love Brewed in the African Pot, Run Baby Run, Elmina).[12]
- 11 February – George Benneh, 86, academic administrator and politician, Minister of Finance (1981) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana (1992–1996).[13]
- 20 February – Rosamond Asiamah Nkansah, 91, police officer, first woman recruited into the Ghanaian force.[14]
- 25 February – Bob Pixel, photographer; COVID-19.[15]
- 4 March – DJ Adviser, disc jockey (Happy FM).[16]
- 7 April – Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, physician and university administrator. [17]
