Ghana evacuates 210 citizens from Ukraine

By Adam Abu-bashal

ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) - Ghana's government evacuated 210 citizens from Ukraine on Thursday due to Russia's war on the Eastern European country.

Worwornyo Agyeman, the director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, said those evacuated had reached the airport in the capital Accra.

Ghana, the first country in the African continent to evacuate its citizens due to the war, initially evacuated 15 citizens on March 1.

At least 549 civilians have been killed and 957 others injured in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, according to UN figures. But the international body has maintained that conditions on the ground have made it "difficult to verify" the true number of civilian casualties.

More than 2.3 million people have also fled to neighboring countries, said the UN refugee agency.

*Writing by Beyza Binnur Donmez