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# 2024 in Ghana

Events in the year 2024 in Ghana.

## Incumbents

* President – Nana Akufo-Addo
* Vice President – Mahamudu Bawumia
* Speaker of Parliament – Alban Bagbin
* Chief Justice – Kwasi Anin-Yeboah

## Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana

### February

* 28 February – The Parliament of Ghana passes the Ghanaian anti-LGBT bill making the promotion or advocacy of LGBT rights punishable by five years in prison.

### March

* 8–23 March – 2023 African Games

### September

* 21 September – A fuel tanker crashes into a bus in Suhum, killing seven people and injuring 31 others.

### October

* 3 October – Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year.
* 14 October – A bus falls into a ditch in Kwapia, Ashanti Region, killing 13 people.
* 18 October: Parliament speaker Alban Bagbin declares four seats held by MPs who switched parties vacant, effectively giving the opposition National Democratic Congress a majority in the legislature. The decision is overturned by the Supreme Court on 12 November.
* 26 October – Foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey is named as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 27 October – At least 20 people are killed in clashes over a chieftaincy dispute in Bawku.
* 28 October – Ghana Freedom Party leader and presidential candidate Akua Donkor dies in a hospital in Accra following an illness.

### December

* 7 December – 2024 Ghanaian general election: Former president John Mahama is elected to a second non-consecutive term as president. His running-mate, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, also becomes the first woman to be elected as Vice-President of Ghana.

## Sports

* 2023–24 Ghana Premier League
* 2023 African Games

## Deaths

* 3 January – Imoro Muniratu, 72, food vendor.
* 4 January – Felicia Abban, 87, photographer.
* 9 January – Agnes Asangalisa Chigabatia, 67, politician, MP (2005–2009).
* 17 January – Mark Woyongo, 77, politician, MP (2013–2017), minister for defence (2013–2014) and the interior (2014–2017).
* 18 January – Vincent McCauley, actor (Things We Do for Love).
* 7 March – John Kumah, deputy minister of finance.
# Tate Westbrook

Michael Tate Westbrook is an officer in the United States Navy who served as commanding officer of the USS Spruance (DDG-111) from May 2010 to May 2012. Prior to this, he served in the Pentagon on the Naval Operations Staff's Programming Division from fall 2007 through June 2009.

## Career

Westbrook's initial sea tours were in USS Hawes (FFG-53) as Communications Officer, Ordnance Officer and Weapons Control Officer, and included combat action in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. In 1993, he resigned from active duty to pursue a career as a small business entrepreneur in Charleston, South Carolina, during which time he also achieved a U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Master's license. He returned to active duty in 1997 and eventually served as Combat Systems Officer in USS O'Brien (DD-975), then later served as the commissioning Combat Systems Officer in USS McCampbell (DDG-85).
He then served at the Missile Defense Agency as the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program Support Officer in 2003, and as the Missile Defense Agency's liaison to the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense from 2004 through 2005. He then served as Executive Officer in USS Laboon (DDG-58), one of the three ships of the first Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Sea Swap experiment.
In 2007, he was one of the 30 selected as National Finalists in the White House Fellows program. He represented the Navy as a 2008-2009 Fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI program.
Westbrook was the first "plankowner" Commanding Officer in USS SPRUANCE (DDG 111) built at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. Following the ship's commissioning in Key West, Florida, Westbrook brought the ship to its first home port, Naval Station San Diego, where SPRUANCE joined the Little Beavers of Destroyer Squadron 23.
As Commodore of permanent Task Force 65, Westbrook commanded the Navy task force that launched the 2017 Shayrat missile strike in response to the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack in Syria.
Westbrook, a certified defense financial manager completed a 28-year Navy career as Director of the office of Budget Programming Integration (OPNAV N801), known in Pentagon parlance as "The Bullpen." Westbrook retired from active duty in June 2021.

## Military awards

* Description
* Defense Meritorious Service Medal
* Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
* Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal

## Personal life

Westbrook is a native of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He holds a bachelor's degree in rhetoric from Tulane University and a Master of Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.
# United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism

The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism is one of seven subcommittees of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

## Jurisdiction

This subcommittee deals with all matters concerning U.S. relations with the countries of the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and Central Asia, as well as regional intergovernmental organizations. This subcommittee’s regional responsibilities include all matters within the geographic region, including matters relating to: (1) terrorism and non-proliferation; (2) crime and illicit narcotics; (3) U.S. foreign assistance programs; and (4) the promotion of U.S. trade and exports.
In addition, this subcommittee has global responsibility for counterterrorism matters.

## Members, 119th Congress

| Majority | Ranking Member |
| Dave McCormick, Pennsylvania, Chair Ted Cruz, Texas Rick Scott, Florida Mike Lee, Utah Steve Daines, Montana | Jacky Rosen, Nevada, Ranking Member Chris Murphy, Connecticut Tim Kaine, Virginia Cory Booker, New Jersey |
| Ex officio ||
| Jim Risch, Idaho | Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire |

## Historical subcommittee rosters
### 118th Congress

| Majority | Minority |
| Chris Murphy, Connecticut, Chair Ben Cardin, Maryland Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire Tim Kaine, Virginia Cory Booker, New Jersey | Todd Young, Indiana, Ranking Member Mitt Romney, Utah Ted Cruz, Texas Marco Rubio, Florida |
| Ex officio ||
| Ben Cardin, Maryland | Jim Risch, Idaho |

### 117th Congress

| Majority | Minority |
| Chris Murphy, Connecticut, Chair Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire Ed Markey, Massachusetts Cory Booker, New Jersey Chris Van Hollen, Maryland | Todd Young, Indiana, Ranking Member Rand Paul, Kentucky Ted Cruz, Texas Mitt Romney, Utah Bill Hagerty, Tennessee |
| Ex officio ||
| Bob Menendez, New Jersey | Jim Risch, Idaho |
# St. Thomas' Cathedral, Vaddukoddai

St. Thomas' Cathedral is the seat of the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India located in Vaddukoddai, Sri Lanka.

## History

Portuguese Jesuits built a Catholic church in Vaddukoddai in the 1660s which was later taken over and renovated by the Dutch before being handed over to the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) by the British. In May 1904 the Congregational Council of Ceylon (CCC) was set-up to administer ACM's churches. CCC joined with the American Madura Mission and the London Missionary Society in Travancore to form the United Churches of South India and Ceylon (UCSIC) in 1905. UCSIC joined with the South India Synod of the Presbyterian Church to form the South India United Church (SIUC) in 1908/09. The Church of South India was established in September 1947 as a union of the SIUC, South India Provincial Synod of Methodist Church and the southern dioceses of the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon.
The cathedral was declared an archaeological protected monument in December 2011.
# Chiik Naab murals

The Chiik Naab murals are a group of ancient Maya mural paintings located in a substructure of building 1 at the great acropolis of Chiik Naab in the Maya city of Calakmul in southern Campeche, Mexico. The paintings show various scenes of the daily life in the Maya city that includes the consumption of food and drink such as tamales and atole and the commerce by local market people.
The murals stand out for their high conservation grade and for the unique content of their scenes. While the vast majority of Maya art and works illustrate political or religious themes highlighting the image of god or rulers, the Chiik Naab murals are entirely social scenes, a subject that is rarely represented, showing the image of a Maya market which has contributed to understanding the cultural traditions and daily lifestyle of the pre-Hispanic Maya society.
The murals were discovered in 2004 during an archaeological research in the building 1 of the Chiik Naab acropolis where a big substructure was found inside constisting of a 12 metres high stepped pyramidal building completely covered by the mural paintings and whose construction is estimated to have been between the years 650 and 700 AD.

## Description

The discovered murals are around 18 Maya daily life scenes in a vertical format and delimited by a red border with a color palette of around 15 different tones. One of the paintings, commonly called The Lady of the Tamales, shows an everyday scene within the ancient Maya society with two seated characters, a woman with an elegant hat next to a basket serving and offering a plate of tamales while a man eats them. The upper Maya hieroglyphic text shows the inscription aj-waaj, "aj" being a grammatical preffix meaning "person of" and "waaj" meaning tamale, translated as “person of the tamale,” referring to the woman.
In one of the scenes, a woman is seen carrying a large clay pot on her head while another woman, finely dressed in a transparent blue cloth, helps her to carry it. On the right, a man is seen sitting and drinking a large bowl of atole, he is referred as aj-ul “person of the atole,” as indicated by the Maya inscription in the hieroglyphic text on the upper right.
# Charles Denton Abel

Charles Denton Abel (1831 – 1906) was an English patent attorney who co-founded and served as Vice President and President of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents.

## Biography

Charles Denton Abel was born in London in 1831, the grandson of August Christian Andreas Abel, who was court miniature painter to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, and the younger brother of the chemist and explosives expert, Sir Frederick Abel, Chairman and Albert Medallist of the Society of Arts.
In 1856 Abel entered into partnership with Mr. Charles Cowper, a patent agent, in England. Following Mr. Cowper's death in 1860, Abel continued his work as a patent attorney and in 1871 entered into partnership with John Imray to form Abel & Imray with offices in the Holborn area of London, a firm which still operates under that name today.
Abel assisted in founding the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents in 1882, and was the first Vice President of the Chartered Institute. He later served as President from 1897 to 1899.
He was elected a member of the Society of Arts in 1886 and was awarded the Society’s Gold Medal for his paper on ‘The Patent Laws’ in 1904.
Abel died in 1906.
# Stony Clove Creek

Stony Clove Creek is a 10.3-mile-long (16.6 km) creek in the Catskill Mountains in New York. It is a tributary of Esopus Creek, which in turn is a tributary of the Hudson River. It joins the Esopus in the village of Phoenicia, and has two smaller tributaries up north of Phoenicia.

## Description

The Stony Clove starts near the Stony Clove Notch in Edgewood in Greene County. It originates at Notch Lake, near the Devil's Tombstone Campsite, and flows through the small villages of Edgewood and Lanesville, entering Ulster County at Chichester.

## History

Early maps and deeds indicate that the Stony Clove flowed into the Warner Bushkill, or alternatively named, the Barber Bushkill, before flowing into the Esopus. Later cartographers have changed the nomenclature of the streams so that the Barber Bushkill or Warner Bushkill flows into the Stony Clove.
It was formed about 10,000 years ago, during the last Ice age. It was formed when the same meltwater that formed the Stony Clove Notch burst through, and flooded a valley. The water, in turn, started running down through an already gouged-out pass, forming a small river.

## Hydrology
### Discharge

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) maintains stream gauges along Stony Clove Creek. The station in Chichester in operation since 1997, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) upstream from the Esopus, had a maximum discharge of 14,300 cubic feet (400 m$^3$) per second on August 28, 2011, as Hurricane Irene passed through the area. It had a minimum discharge of 3.1 cubic feet (0.088 m$^3$) per second on October 3, 2014. A former station in operation from February 1997 to August 2007, 1.3 miles (2.1 km) upstream from the Esopus, had a maximum discharge of 13,000 cubic feet (370 m$^3$) per second on April 2, 2005, and a minimum discharge of 3.7 cubic feet (0.10 m$^3$) per second from September 20–22, 2002.

### Turbidity

Stony Clove Creek is the largest source of turbidity and suspended-sediment concentration in the upper Esopus Creek, accounting for more turbidity than the rest of the upper Esopus watershed combined.
The USGS station along the creek in Chichester collects turbidity data every 15 minutes. The maximum daily SSC mean was 2,860 mg/L on December 1, 2010, and the minimum was under 1 mg/L over many days in late August through September 2014. The maximum daily suspended sediment discharge was 8,860 tons (8,040 t) on September 18, 2012, and the lowest was less than 0.01 tons (0.0091 t) from January 15–17, 2012 and many days in September 2013.

## Tributaries

* Ox Clove Brook
* Warner Creek
* Hollow Tree Brook
* Lanes Hollow Brook
* Rhine Hollow Brook
* Fenwick Brook
* Lanes Hollow Brook
* Christine Brook
# Carl Jeppesen

Carl Jeppesen (16 March 1858 – 26 January 1930) was a Danish-born Norwegian worker, newspaper editor and politician. He edited the newspaper Social-Demokraten from 1887 to 1892, and from 1906 to 1912. He was among the founders of the Norwegian Labour Party, and served as chairman for two periods, from 1890 to 1892, and from 1894 to 1897. He was Mayor of Kristiania from 1917 to 1919.

## Personal life

Jeppesen was born in Copenhagen as the son of Jens Jeppesen and Marie Fredrikke Petrine Tauer. He grew up in Copenhagen with adoptive parents, having been adopted as a one-year-old child. He married Hulda Johanne Schmidt in 1878. He died in Oslo in 1930.

## Career

Jeppesen started working as a cigar riddler. After periods of unemployment he settled in Kristiania in 1878, working as brushmaker. He founded a brush factory in 1881, which he run along with his wife until 1887. In 1885 Jeppesen joined the organization Den socialdemokratiske Forening. From 1886 he chaired the organization and also edited the organization's newspaper Social-Demokraten (former Vort Arbeide) until 1892. He was a delegate to the founding meeting of the Norwegian Labour Party in Arendal in 1887, and was responsible for framing the party programme. In 1889 he organized the strike among the female match workers in Kristiania. He was chairman of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1890 to 1892. From 1892 he was running a cigar shop, but also contributed to the newspaper while Christian Holtermann Knudsen had taken over as editor. From 1894 to 1897 he was chairman of the Labour Party for a second period. He was a member of the Kristiania City Council from 1898 to 1925, and served as Mayor of Kristiania from 1917 to 1919. He also edited Social-Demokraten from 1906 to 1912. He was a co-founder of the Norwegian Press Association in 1910, and chaired this organization from 1920 to 1922. For the 1921 general election he was a ballot candidate for the Social Democratic Labour Party.
A collection of Jeppesen's articles, songs and poems was issued in 1951.
# Boxer TV Ireland

Boxer DTT Limited (which intended to trade as Boxer) was a company that had been awarded the contract to operate a mainly pay-TV digital terrestrial television service in Ireland.
Boxer was a joint venture between Boxer TV Access AB, now owned ultimately by the Government of Sweden via Teracom (3I recently sold their stake to Teracom in Boxer AB), and Denis O'Brien's Communicorp Group Limited specifically established, with the support of BT Ireland, to promote, support and drive take-up of DTT in Ireland. They had been awarded in principle three multiplex contracts, for multiplexes (A, B,C). (As with all BCI licences, the operating company only holds contracts, the actual broadcasting licences being issued by the Commission for Communications Regulation to the BCI). Raidió Teilifís Éireann would hold one further multiplex licence intended mainly for free-to-air services.
However, on 20 April 2009 the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland confirmed that Boxer had withdrawn its application to operate the digital terrestrial television multiplexes in Ireland.

## Competition

Boxer received in principle the conditional contract for Muxes 2–4 (A-C). They beat off competition from two other consortia to win the 12-year contract. These two were Easy TV made up of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises & Liberty Global Incorporated (parent of UPC Ireland) and OneVision which is made up of Setanta Sports, TV3 Ireland, Arqiva and Eircom. On 20 April 2009, the BCI revealed that OneVision had been the second placed applicant and that following Boxer's withdrawal, it intended to ascertain whether it was still interested in operating the DTT multiplexes.

## Promotion

A national information campaign for Irish DTT was carried out by the DCENR. Had Boxer launched, it had proposed to use mostly TV and Radio advertisements making use of Communicorp's group of radio channels and via promotion in retailers large and small using commission sales and potentially travelling information roadshows.

## End of contract negotiations

On 20 April 2009, the BCI announced that Boxer had ended negotiations on the DTT contract without a successful outcome. Boxer DTT confirmed this on their website and wished the BCI well in reaching DTT objectives. Following One Vision's protracted and unsuccessful negotiations following Boxer's widthrawal, the BAI, its successor regulator, opened negotiations with Easy TV, which also declined to operate the system.
# Joe Allbritton

Joe Lewis Allbritton (December 29, 1924 – December 12, 2012) was an American banker, publisher and philanthropist.

## Early life

Joe Allbritton was born on December 29, 1924, in D'Lo, Mississippi, the sixth of seven children. His family soon relocated to Houston, Texas, where his father owned a small business. Allbritton served in the United States Navy during World War II. He completed his undergraduate degree and law degree from Baylor University, where he was a national champion debater.

## Business

After naval service and law school, he borrowed $5,000 to buy land outside Houston, which was later used in the construction of a freeway connecting Houston and Galveston, earning Allbritton a small fortune. He also chaired Houston International Bank, Houston Citizens Bank and University Bankshares.
In 1975, he purchased The Washington Star along with its television station and smaller stations in the south. In 1978, he was forced to divest the newspaper. This became the foundation of his company, Allbritton Communications, which includes WJLA-TV, NewsChannel 8, short lived Internet venture TBD, and Politico, now run by his son, Robert Allbritton.
From 1981 to 2001, he was chairman of Riggs Bank. In 1992, he sold the Los Angeles based Pierce National Life Insurance Co. that he had owned since 1958. Ten years after acquiring Riggs Bank, the bank started to under perform, causing great financial distress on Allbritton. He resigned due to prostate cancer during investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission involving oil money from Equatorial Guinea at the same time that Riggs was facing broader charges of money laundering; his son Robert assumed the chairman position after his resignation; the bank was later purchased by PNC in 2005. The Riggs Bank was also investigated for concealing Pinochet's money, an investigation that revealed direct ties between the dictator and Joe Allbritton. He remained a member of the board of Riggs Bank's parent company Riggs National Corporation until 2004.

## Philanthropy

Allbritton and his wife, Barbara, were major contributors through to numerous organizations through the Allbritton Foundation. Organizations they donated to including the Baylor College of Medicine, the Allbritton Art Institute, the Oxford Scholars, and the establishment of the International School of Law, which has become the George Mason University School of Law.
He sat on the boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Albritton funded the official White House portrait Ronald Reagan by Everett Raymond Kinstler, which is part of the art collection of the White House. He contributed to Washington National Cathedral, where he was made a Lay canon.

## Thoroughbred racing

Allbritton also made a name for himself in thoroughbred horse racing. In 1991, his 3-year-old horse, Hansel, won two legs of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness and the Belmont stakes.

## Death

He died on December 12, 2012, aged 87, of heart trouble, in Houston, Texas. He is survived by his widow, Barbara, and their son, Robert and three grandchildren.
# Kilgore News Herald

The Kilgore News Herald (KNH) also known as the Kilgore Daily News is an American daily newspaper based in city of Kilgore

## History

Establshed in 1930. Lyde Williford Devall and Charles K. Devall owned and published the Kilgore News Herald from 1940 to 1979. In 2018, Bluebonnet Publishing sold the newspaper to M. Roberts Media, as part of a strategic move to enhance local news coverage and facilitate a transition into a digitally integrated noting the newspaper's "historic roots stretching back to the early days of the East Texas oil boom," highlighting its longstanding role and its important history. then was acquired by Carpenter Media Group in 2024.

## Content

In the Kilgore News Herald from February 6, 1934, there are two intriguing stories about Bonnie and Clyde. One details how former Police Chief Bob Goss of Kilgore, and a man named Will Fritz once arrested Clyde Barrow. Next to this, another headline reads: "BARROW, BONNIE SEEN IN E. TEX." This was just a few months before the pair were killed by lawmen in Louisiana.
Former News Herald reporter Bob Cone describes Clyde Barrow as an "elusive, event phantom-like desperado." Then states, "Barrow is bad. Barrow is bold. That's about the way Goss puts it.
   "It emphasizes that Barrow is much more desperate today than he was back there when he was launching his career of crime" - Police Chief Bob Goss (Texas Ranger)
and reflects on his earlier arrest by Goss and Fritz.
When asked if he thought Barrow would confront officers with his guns, Goss replied without hesitation, {{cquote|"Yes.", ”He's desperate. He knows it will be too bad for him if he is captured." - Police Chief Bob Goss (Texas Ranger)
# Dębnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Dębnica is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Prusice, within Trzebnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 3 km (2 mi) north-west of Prusice, 13 km (8 mi) north-west of Trzebnica, and 30 km (19 mi) north of the regional capital Wrocław.