The National Democratic Congress (NDC)is asking the security agencies to ensure that persons in the Chereponi constituency who possessed illegal firearms were disarmed before the conduct of the by-election on September 29, 2009.
An oil trading firm has agreed to pay more than $45million (£27million) compensation to people in Cote d’Ivoire who say they are made ill by dumped waste in 2006.
Two German ships have become the first Western commercial vessels to navigate the Northeast Passage - a shipping route which goes from Asia to Europe around the Russian Arctic.
Another two US banks have been closed by the federal regulator, taking the total number of American banking failures this year to 94.
Hundreds of people from across Africa, America, Europe, Asia, The Caribbean, Pacific and other parts of the world are trooping down to Ghana to celebrate the centenary birthday of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, which falls on Monday, September 21, 2009.