Takoradi

Eric Schmitt reported from Takoradi and Accra, Ghana, and has covered U.S. military operations in Africa for three decades.

Today the team has about 60 air-quality sensors deployed across Ghana in the cities of Accra, Tema, Cape Coast, Takoradi and Kumasi.

Meanwhile, police are still searching for three women kidnapped in December in the southern city of Takoradi.

In May, an explosion at a factory in the Western Regional capital of Takoradi occurred as a tanker was discharging liquefied petroleum gas at the Ghana Household Utilities Manufacturing Company factory.

Ghana factory blast injures at least 80: Ghana’s state news agency said a blast at a factory in the city of Takoradi has injured at least 80.