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Accra Daily Mail

newspaper in Ghana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4672819 ↗
Source-derived summary

Accra Daily Mail was an English-language daily newspaper from Accra, Ghana. The paper, which is privately owned, was started in 1998. The daily ceased publication in January 2009 due to financial problems. In April 2009 the paper was relaunched with the name The Mail. Its frequency was also changed to biweekly.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Accra Daily Mail” is newspaper in Ghana. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Accra, Daily and Mail, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2009—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1998-01-01, 1998—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Accra, Daily and Mail is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “newspaper in Ghana” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4672819. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Accra Daily Mail” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.