Europa Press

La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, December 8, 2024, p. 18

Madrid. Ghana’s electoral authorities began counting votes in a general election that passed in relative peace, interrupted only by a shooting in the north of the country that left one person dead. The incident occurred in the city of Nyankpala between supporters of the country’s two major parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and at least four people were arrested, sources confirmed. police. The elections are the ninth since the reintroduction of multipartyism in 1992 following the approval of a new Constitution, 11 years after a coup d’état led by Jerry Rawlings, which overthrew the then president, Hilla Limann, and put an end to the Third Republic.