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Ghanaian <a href="https://yen.com.gh/190556-facebook-names-top-earning-brands-platform-ghanaian-news-website-list.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YEN.com.gh made the list </a>with a significant 20.9M Instant Article pageviews.<br>Read also<br><span class="c-article-read-also__headline-hover-inner">Wode Maya becomes first Ghanaian YouTuber to hit 1 million subscribers</span><br> <br>There was much excitement in YEN.com.gh's newsroom as the publication of being recognised as one of the many local and international publications supporting this year's <a href="https://yen.com.gh/194962-world-news-day-yen-gh-joins-calls-highlight-climate-change-crisis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World News Day on Tuesday, 28 September went viral.</a><br> <br>Apart from being recognized by many top brands and platforms over our professionalism and workflow, <strong>YEN.com.gh</strong> was also nominated for a number of enviable awards.<br> <br>The leading online news and entertainment platform in Ghana, <a href="https://yen.com.gh/190555-amazing-news-yen-gh-enters-a-list-finalists-wan-ifra-2021-african-digital-media-awards.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>YEN.com.gh</strong> entered the list of finalists at Africa's premier digital news awards, WAN-IFRA 2021. </a><br>The annual awards recognises publishers who have delivered unique and original digital media projects in the last 12 months, from new approaches to digital subscriptions, to impactful native advertising campaigns. <br>Read also<br><span class="c-article-read-also__headline-hover-inner">Spotting fake news: YEN.com.gh throws light on how to differentiate between what is real and what is not</span><br>Your authoritative and credible news website, <a href="https://yen.com.gh/195178-yen-gh-nominated-3rd-edition-national-communication-awards-2021.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YEN.com.gh, was also nominated for the 2021 National Communications Awards. </a><br>YEN.com.gh, an innovative news website with 2.5 million monthly unique visitors, was nominated in the Online Media of the Year Category of the awards show, which is organized by RAD Communications Limited to recognize and celebrate excellent communication professionals, teams, entities, and organizations across Ghana. <br> <br>If your 2021 journey with YEN.com.gh was awesome, you are not ready for what you are going to experience in 2022 because we are coming into the new year fully-packed with goodies!<br>We will maintain our leading position of delivering news in a timely fashion - be it sports, entertainment and user-generated content! 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