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British teens released after serving nine months in Ghana on drugs charges
By Lucy Cockcroft,  Telegraph, UK

Two British girls have been released from prison in Ghana after serving 12-months for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country in laptop computer bags.

Yasemin Vatansever and Yetunde Diya were reported to have been in "good spirits" as they left the juvenile prison on Thursday.

The two students, from London, were arrested in July 2007 at the Accra airport with about 13lbs (6 kilograms) of cocaine in their computer cases. They were both 16 at the time.....

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Reverend John Prempeh, son of King Prempeh I, remembered

Saltpond (E/R), July 18, Ghanadot/GNA – A commemoration service in honour of Reverend John Boateng Prempeh, son of King Prempeh I, has been held at the Saints Peter and Paul Parish at Saltpond.