Global news giant CNN has corrected an error it committed in its report on Ghana during the country's just ended elections. The US-based news house had in a post-elections report described Ghana as a country where citizens queue up for food, sparking anger among Ghanaians on social media.
The internet community in Ghana tweeted their displeasure about the apparent untruth in the CNN report under the hashtag #CNNgetitright.
Responding to the development, CNN corrected the error in the story and added a note saying: "An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the status of the retail economy in Ghana. Stores are generally well stocked, and food shortages are rare.
The earlier version also erroneously said Nana Akufo-Addo ran for president in 1998. Ghana did not have presidential elections in 1998".
Below are details of the story.
Ghanaian President John Mahama has conceded defeat to Nana Akufo-Addo in the recently concluded elections, a spokesman for the President-elect told CNN on Friday. Akufo-Addo, of the New Patriotic Party, won 5,180,389 to 4,193,861, or about 55% to 45%, reported representatives at the EC National Coalition Centre, which verified results sheets from 241 constituencies.
Akufo-Addo, the son of a former president, had lost prior runs for the presidency in 2008 and 2012. He alleged voter fraud after the 2012 loss to Mahama. The Supreme Court spent more than a month deliberating before declaring Mahama the winner by a narrow margin.
A lawyer, Akufo-Addo has been elected to the national parliament and served as attorney general and foreign minister, his website said. He tweeted his victory, saying: "A few minutes ago, I received a call from President @JDMahama congratulating me on winning the 2016 Presidential Election. #ChangeHasCome"
In an interview with CNN before his victory was assured, Akufo-Addo expressed confidence. "We won it," he said. "We won both the parliamentary and presidential contests so we're in a good shape. The parliamentary contest has been won by a very, very big margin; we increased our presence in parliament by an extra fifty seats."
Mahama, of the National Democratic Party, has led the West African nation of 27 million people since July 2012.
As the vice president, he first took office after the death of President John Evans Atta Mills.
According to his campaign website, Akufo-Addo has promised to improve the economy by overseeing the mining of untapped bauxite deposits and building an integrated aluminum industry. Part of a former British colony, Ghana was among the first African countries to gain independence, in 1957. It endured a series of coups before a military dictator, Jerry Rawlings, took power in 1981. Rawlings led Ghana through a transition to democracy about 10 years later.
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The CNN are always telling lies about Trump, so I am not surprised if they talked lies about Ghana. Blessed be the Redeemer
But if you sell your country it will be bought at how you sold it. Blame kapuepue and bawumia
dont people queue for fast food in the US? what are they talking about? If they don't have anything to sy they should just ***barred word***.
As for this (clinton news network.cnn)the least said about the better...they are no more called cable news network in the u.s...all they seek to do is to focus on the bad side of africa...to hell with their one sided news
@waakye queue Even McDonald's we queue! what are they talking about? Their only interest is writing stories that depict poverty and suffering in Africa. When will they ever learn? Come to Africa and see for yourselves and stop reporting from imaginations!
but that was what Bawumia and d Nana Addo projected ghana
CNN should never make comment about Ghana any more.
OOOOH is painful
I think the CNN reporter saw a group of people queuing to buy waakye and came to the conclusion that Ghanaians queue to eat.
They go talk true