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No excuses for Ghana poverty 60 years after independence: president

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo (PHOTO: REUTERS)

ACCRA: Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Monday the country had run out of excuses for failing to end poverty and corruption, 60 years after it became the first in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence from colonial rule.

Akufo-Addo said Ghana must not sacrifice its environment as it pursues development, in an anniversary speech delivered in the capital where Kwame Nkrumah became the country's founding president after Britain departed.

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