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MONTH: October 2006

Accra zoo to be rebuilt

 

ACCRA, Ghana--The Accra Zoo, serving about 120,000 visitors per year, is to be relocated and rebuilt over the next five years, Ghanian minister of lands, forestry, and mines Dominic Fobih announced on August 1, 2006. The animals are to be moved to the Kumasi Zoo, about 200 miles inland, by the end of September 2006 to make room for a new presidential complex. The new zoo is to be built with the help of the London Zoological Society, Fobih said.

 

Founded as first Ghanian president Kwame Nkrumah's private menagerie in the early 1960s, the Accra Zoo opened to the public after his overthrow in 1966.