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With Ghana operating just one mission in South Africa, the church's branches across the country stepped in to house evacuees for over two months, prompting a visit from Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who is now pushing for closer state-church cooperation.
The Ghanaian government has received the body of one victim killed in recent xenophobic violence in South Africa and evacuated a group of stranded citizens, while pressing South African authorities for accountability and the return of a second victim’s remains.
The incumbent polled 215 of 387 votes cast at Tamale to fend off "Dagomba Boy" Amadu Inusah and two other challengers, and used his acceptance speech to call for internal unity ahead of the 2028 general election.
The former Health Minister polled 488 votes to Boye's 173 at the WAEC Hall in Tema, taking over from Divine Otoo Agorhom, and immediately pledged a "24-hour campaign" of grassroots mobilization to help the NPP reclaim the 21 parliamentary seats it won in 2016.
Odeneho Kwaku Appiah polled 658 votes to Dr Henry Kwabena Kokofu's 269 at Jubilee Park in Kumasi, with delegates from 45 of the region's 47 constituencies taking part after two constituencies were excluded over unresolved disputes.
Esibu polled 278 votes against the incumbent's 161, headlining a set of regional elections in which several sitting officers, including Secretary Takyi Mensah and Women's Organizer Charlotte Adwo Antwi, held on to their positions.
Kwame Baffoe polled 201 votes to see off Joseph Mensah and two other challengers at Baakuniaba, near Sunyani, as the party elected a full slate of regional executives under tight security.
Voting closed at 3:15pm at Tema Community 5, but a dispute over how ballots should be counted held up proceedings for about an hour before party officers, the Electoral Commission and police stepped in to clear the way for counting to begin.
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