2021 in Ghana

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See also:	Other events of 2021; Timeline of Ghanaian history;

Events in the year 2021 in Ghana.

Incumbents

7 January – 2020 Ghanaian general election: The Ghana Army steps in to put down a fight in Parliament. President Nana Akufo-Addo is sworn in for another term.^[1]
21 January – Police arrest 11 in a ″baby-harvesting″ scheme in Accra and Tema.^[2]
9 January – Parliament is forced to close for three weeks after 17 Members and 171 staff contract COVID-19.^[3]
24 February
- 600,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Accra. This is the first vaccine shipment under the UN-sponsored COVAX plan.^[4] Ghana reports 81,215 cases of infection, 6,614 active cases, and 584 deaths.^[5]
- The offices of ″LGBT+ Rights Ghana″ are closed by security forces.^[6]
26 February – 2021 Asafo-Akyem bus crash
20 May - 2021 Ghana gay arrests
11 June – During the 2021 United Nations Security Council Elections, Ghana was elected to serve a two-year term on the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member. Its term, starting in 2022, will mark the fourth time Ghana has sat on the Security Council.^[7]

2 January – Sakib Bamba, religious leader, chief Imam of Ejura.^[8]
18 January – Joshua Kyeremeh, politician; kidney complications.^[9]
23 January – Abukari Gariba, 81, Olympic footballer (1968, 1972).^[10]
1 February – Joshua Hamidu, 85, military officer and diplomat, Chief of the Defence Staff (1978–1979), High Commissioner to Zambia (1978) and Nigeria (2003–2005).^[11]
9 February – Emmanuel Kojo Dadson, 68, actor (Love Brewed in the African Pot, Run Baby Run, Elmina).^[12]
11 February – George Benneh, 86, academic administrator and politician, Minister of Finance (1981) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana (1992–1996).^[13]
20 February – Rosamond Asiamah Nkansah, 91, police officer, first woman recruited into the Ghanaian force.^[14]
25 February – Bob Pixel, photographer; COVID-19.^[15]
4 March – DJ Adviser, disc jockey (Happy FM).^[16]
7 April – Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, physician and university administrator. ^[17]