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Ghana elections 2020: Nana Akufo-Addo declared winner

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has officially declared Nana Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 presidential elections.

Akufo-Addo has been reelected for a second term with 51. 59% of votes, beating out former president John Mahama of the NDC.

He was re-elected for a second term with 6,730,413 votes. Mahama received 6,214,889 votes, or 47.36%, making it a tight race between the two, as many had predicted.

Although one region’s final vote has yet to be accounted for, the EC says at this point it would not change the outcome.

According to the Electoral Commission, there were 17,027,641 registered voters with few election-related mishaps such as missing names, or misplaced polling stations.

Since polling day, 13,434,574 votes were counted in 48 hours, representing 79% of the total registered voters.

READ MORE Ghana elections: Provisional results show Akufo-Addo ahead of Mahama in presidential vote

The EC added that it was the first time in the history that the country’s elections were funded without external assistance

AHANTA WEST YOUTH BENEFITS FROM JOB FAIR

The GrEEn project supports youth, women and returning migrants in creating jobs and supporting businesses in a time COVID is impacting hard on local economies. The GrEEn project trains Youth on how to contributes to climate resilient economies, which can withstand and reduce climate impact on the short and long term; this is essential to community well-being now and later.”

ATTENTION: UPDATE ON THE APREMDO/EWUSIEJOE BRIDGES

The Ghana Highways Authority is set to finally begin repair works on the APREMDO BRIDGE and the EWUSIEJOE BRIDGES this weekend with the following repair plan

  1. APREMDO BRIDGE: Closes at 10pm this Saturday and will be opened when its 5am Sunday
  2. EWUSIEJOE BRIDGE: Closes at 10pm on Sunday evening and reopens at 5am on MONDAY MORNING

Users of these bridges are to pay attention to this development and move accordingly.

Let’s go GrEEn! New GrEEn Project launches in Ghana boosting green jobs and building climate change resilient communities

The idea behind GrEEn is simple: the lack of job opportunities pushes young people to look for a better future far from home. Climate change makes things worse by taking away the main source of livelihood in many communities,” said Diana Acconcia, the European Union Ambassador to Ghana.

These two challenges are interlinked. We need to address them at the same time if we want to convince young people that they have a future at home and prevent them from embarking on dangerous journeys where they can lose their life,” she added.

The European Union Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa (EUTF for Africa) aims to foster stability and to contribute to better migration management, including by addressing the root causes of destabilization, forced displacement and irregular migration.

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