Accra, Ghana (CNN) -- Ten people were killed Saturday after a cargo plane crashed through a fence surrounding an airport in Accra, Ghana, and slammed into a bus, municipal and national officials said.
CNN: Officials: 10 killed after plane slams into bus in Ghana
Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit, Michigan, had a one-way ticket from Accra, Ghana, to Lagos, Nigeria, and a round-trip ticket for his trip from Lagos to the Netherlands and then to Detroit, according to the Nigerian Aviation Authority.
Alarm bells started to ring at the firm's headquarters when a Cadbury-financed study by the University of Sussex and the University of Accra found that the average production of a cocoa farmer had dropped to 40% of potential yield, and that the children of cocoa farmers did not want to work in the family business any more.
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Saturday on a runway at Accra's Kotoka International Airport but was not able to stop, officials said.
CNN: Officials: 10 killed after plane slams into bus in Ghana
Now if he is missing from the list, I have hope yet that my two friends in Accra will make it onto a revised list next year.
"At long last we have proved that we're a good football nation and the German embassy should start issuing out visas, " quipped Ken Fynn, a resident of Accra.
Togo are playing the game in Accra after being slapped with a three-match home ban after post-match violence during an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier last year, in which Mali star Frederic Kanoute was injured.
The first leg of the final will now take place on 2 January at Hearts' home ground in Accra, with the second leg a week later in Kumasi.
The BBC's Sammy Darko in Accra says not everyone can afford a new refrigerator, so the used ones are still in demand at the second hand shops that litter the streets of the capital's suburbs.
In Ghana, one such center is Accra-based Mobile Web Ghana, a vibrant tech space with more than 300 members.
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If you don't want to venture far from the capital, there is a lot to do right in Accra.
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Their airliner was lying across the road from the airport, on a parcel of land abutting an Accra football stadium.
CNN: Officials: 10 killed after plane slams into bus in Ghana
Since that thrilling night and excellent party in Accra, I've gone on to win a United Nations Correspondents Association Gold Medal in the Richard Ortega Prize for coverage of the UN and its agencies in Uganda.
In reality hundreds of Accra's hawkers have been cleared from the streets in a "decongestion" exercise which began in June, and the excitement cannot accurately be described as fever pitch.
This was the first Group A match played there after other encounters took place in Accra.
Love is not like your daughter's medical career with a blueprint to follow, or like a GPS map that can calculate the distance between Addis and Accra.
Our correspondent in Accra, Kwaku Sakyi Addo, says that while Ghanaians were ready for a change, the election was also seen as a referendum on Mr Rawlings and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
With defeat looming and Congo DR threatening to pip them to second place in the group with victory in Accra, Algeria skipper Moussa Saib, the former Tottenham player, orchestrated a second-half comeback for the north Africans.
From its base in Qingdao, white-goods manufacturer Haier has become a hugely successful Chinese multinational, hawking fridges, microwaves and washing machines from Auckland to Accra.
It would include an IT university, a residential area, a hospital, as well as social and sporting amenities, the BBC's Sammy Darko reports from Accra.
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