[wanabidii] Ghana has shut down a fake US embassy operating for the past decade in Accra (M&G Africa)

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Ghana has shut down a fake US embassy operating for the past decade in Accra   The sham embassy was housed in a run-down, pink two-storey building with a corrugated iron roof and flew a US flag outside.

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