Accra is the capital and most populous city of Ghana, a nation on the coast of the western region of Africa. Accra city also doubles as the capital of the Greater Accra Region, and of the Accra Metropolis District with which it is coterminous.
Accra is home to the National Museum of Ghana, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Archives of Ghana, and Ghana's central library.
Reports reaching peacefmonline say the first batch of government-sponsored football fans to South Africa, which left Accra on Thursday night to witness the on-going FIFA World Cup, are said to be still stranded at the OR Tambo International Airport formerly known as the Johannesburg International Airport.