The Ghana Armed Forces are the Army, Navy, and Air Force. It is supervised by the Ministry of Defence (Ghana). With around 7,000 personnel serving in the Ghanian military, Ghana has the tenth lowest ratio of active troops per thousand citizens in the world, standing at 0.6. The Army is larger than the Air Force and the Navy.
Ghana's supreme military commander is the President of The Republic. The day-to-day running of the armed forces is managed by the Ministry of Defence and the Chief of Defence Staff. The Ministry of Defence and Central Defence Headquarters are both located in Accra. Accra, in the British colony of the Gold Coast, was also the location of the British Army’s Headquarters West Africa Command which remained there until its disbandment in 1956.
The Ghanaian military often has to make do with poorly-serviced weaponry and equipment due to lack of maintenance training and capability. As a result, maintenance tasks are often contracted to U.N. and other foreign military advisors and technicians.
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