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They include allergies, bacterial infection, viral infection etc. A common form of the condition that occurs every rainy season is the seasonal conjunctivitis popularly referred to as "Apollo" by West Africans because the reports of its first epidemic in Accra coincided with the Apollo 11 Moon landing. [3]
In 2013, it disposed of the Dunlop brand in Africa along with most of the South African operation in a sale to Sumitomo Rubber Industries of Japan. [16] The very same year, it started its Global R&D Centre, in Enschede, the Netherlands. [17] In 2015, Apollo Tyres bought Germany's Reifencom tyre distributor for €45.6 million. [18]
Location of Ghana. Ghana is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.A multicultural nation, Ghana has a population of approximately 27 million, spanning a variety of ethnic, linguistic and religious groups. [1]
Ghana Railway Company Limited (previously known as the Ghana Railway Corporation) is the company that operates the railways of Ghana. The Ghana Railway Company Limited is a public-sector body with responsibility for the efficient management of the national rail system so as to enhance the smooth movement of goods and passengers. [1]
Ghana is believed to have up to 5 billion barrels (790,000,000 m 3) to 7 billion barrels (1.1 × 10 9 m 3) of petroleum in reserves, [5] which is the sixth largest in Africa and the 25th largest proven reserves in the world and Ghana has up to 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in reserves. [10]
The R14 Regional Highway is a highway which runs entirely within the Volta Region of Ghana, linking the Akatsi South District and the Agotime Ziope District. It is also known as the Akatsi-Ziope road.
After independence, Ghana separated itself from the British West African pound, which was the currency of the British colonies in the region. The new republic's first independent currency was the Ghanaian pound (1958–1965). In 1965, Ghana decided to leave the British colonial monetary system and adopt the widely accepted decimal system.
Postal codes were adopted in Ghana on 18 October 2017, following the launch of the National Digital Address System. [1] [2] As a joint venture between Ghana Post (with support from the Government of Ghana]) and Vokacom Ltd as GhanaPost GPS, the Digital Address System assigned postal codes and unique addresses to every square in Ghana.