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Jan 23: Two girls jailed one year each for drug trafficking.(BBC)

July 12: Two British girls are arrested at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana for attempting to smuggle 6.5 kg of cocaine worth £300,000 to the UK.(BBC)

July 11: Paa Kwesi Nduom resigns as Minister for Public Sector Reform.(Ghana Home Page)

July 10: The President of the Swiss Confederation, Mrs. Micheline Calmy-Rey has begun a 2-day visit to Ghana.(Ghana News Agency)

July 10:The Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano has completed a three day visit to Ghana.(Ghana Home Page)

July 6: Georgina Theodora Wood, the first female Chief Justice of Ghana was today decorated with the Order of the Star of Ghana, the country's highest honour for distinguished services to the nation. (Ghana News Agency)

July 4: The 9th summit of the Assembly of the African Union which lasted for 3 days ends in Accra, Ghana. (BBC) (Ghana Home Page)

July 3: A new currency was introduced in Ghana. The Ghanaian cedi will be used alongside the old until December 2007, when the old ceases to be legal tender. One GH¢ is 10,000 old cedis.(Ghana Home Page) (MyJoyOnline.com)

June 5: Erica Powell, Kwame Nkrumah's private secretary, dies.(The Independent)

May 31 Fathia Nkrumah, wife of Kwame Nkrumah died in Badrawy Hospital in Cairo, Egypt after a period of illness. (Ghana Home Page)