A Greek oil tanker that vanished in the pirate-infested Gulf of Guinea is likely to have moved from Ghanaian to Togolese waters, a Ghanaian military spokesman said Sunday.

“The vessel is not in our waters,” Eric Aggrey-Quashie told Agence France Presse. “It’s gone off and they suspect it’s moving towards Togo. (The navy) is trying to get confirmation from the Togolese if they have identified any vessel in the waters.”

Ghana on Tuesday backed down on a proposed tax on imported condoms after mooting increased levies on foreign-made goods as a way of cutting government debt.

Finance Minister Seth Terkper made the announcement as he presented the 2014 budget, backing parliament's proposal last week to raise overall sales tax by 2.5 percent.

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday unsealed a warrant for the arrest of ex-Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo's youth leader, accusing him of crimes against humanity amid a bloody election standoff some three years ago.

Charles Ble Goude, 40, once known as the "Street General", is detained in Ivory Coast and wanted by the ICC on four counts including murder and rape, committed during 2010-2011 post-election violence.

A court in Ghana on Friday rejected a request from Ivory Coast to extradite a top ally of former president Laurent Gbagbo, ruling that charges against Justin Kone Katinan had "political motivation".

Katinan fled to Ghana in 2011 as a violent post-electoral conflict shook Ivory Coast and he has served as Gbagbo's spokesman since the ousted strongman's arrest in April that year.

Ghana's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President John Dramani Mahama's win in elections last year, dismissing the opposition's case alleging voter fraud in a test for one of Africa's most stable democracies.

The decision ended a months-long saga that had riveted the west African nation of 25 million people seen as a rare beacon of democracy in the turbulent region.

Ghana's Supreme Court will decide whether to overturn the results of 2012 presidential polls on August 29, the nine-judge panel said Wednesday.

In a case that has gripped the west African nation, the largest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is challenging President John Dramani Mahama's win last December.

Four people died and 30 others were injured Sunday in a stampede in a popular church in Ghana, caused by an offer of free anointing water, police said.

Thousands of worshippers hoping for water that they believe can cure illnesses gathered at the Nigerian prophet T. B. Joshua's Synagogue Church of All Nations in the capital Accra, when people in the back began pushing to get to the altar.

Ghanaian college students plan Wednesday to launch a model of a satellite the size of a Coke can 200 yards (meters) into the air.

Organizers hope that it will be the start of this West African country's space program.

Ghana is recalling a shipment of 120 million Chinese-made condoms distributed to charities in the country after testing showed that they were riddled with holes and prone to breaking, an official said Tuesday.

Twenty million of the condoms have already been given out and Ghana's Food and Drug Authority is trying to get them back, said the agency's head of enforcement, Thomas Amedzro.

A gold mine collapse in central Ghana has killed 17 people who were working illegally and had been told to leave by the operator, police and an official told Agence France Presse Tuesday.

The operator had completed its work at the mine near the town of Kyekyewere and returned only to shut down the operation and carry out reclamation work, said the area police commander William Otu.