**Burma Camp is the headquarters of the Ghana Armed Forces — the sprawling military cantonment in Accra that houses the General Headquarters (GHQ), the Ministry of Defence, and the high commands of the Army, Navy and Air Force.** It sits in the north-eastern part of Accra, straddling the boundary between the Accra Metropolitan Area and the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality, roughly along the Liberation Road corridor near the 37 Military Hospital and the Airport Residential Area. The name has nothing to do with Myanmar (Burma) in the way people often assume — it is generally traced to a colonial-era corruption of a local Ga or Akan place-name, "Burma" being the British rendering of what was heard as *Nkran* or a nearby settlement name. The camp grew out of the British Gold Coast military establishment, and after independence in 1957 it became the nerve centre of the Ghana Armed Forces, with Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah expanding and Africanising the officer corps through the 1960s. Today Burma Camp is effectively a self-contained military town. Within its perimeter you find: - **General Headquarters (GHQ)** — the office of the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), the senior-most officer of the Ghana Armed Forces. - **The Ministry of Defence** — the civilian political authority over the military. - **Service headquarters** — Army HQ (Land Forces), Navy HQ and Air Force HQ, each headed by a Chief of Staff who reports to the CDS. - **The Ghana Military Academy** and various training and signals establishments. - **Military housing, schools, a hospital, churches, mosques, a market, and officers' messes** — so that personnel and their families live, work and school inside the camp. The Chief of the Defence Staff is the professional head of the armed forces and answers to the President, who is constitutionally the Commander-in-Chief. Ghana's military has a strong tradition of professionalism and has contributed extensively to UN and ECOWAS peacekeeping — in the Congo, Lebanon (UNIFIL), Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, South Sudan and The Gambia — with Burma Camp as the planning and deployment hub for those missions. Culturally, Burma Camp is also a landmark: the **Burma Camp Market** and the surrounding shops serve both military families and civilians from neighbouring communities, and the camp's roads are well-known Accra arteries. The nearby **37 Military Hospital** — one of Ghana's foremost referral hospitals — is closely tied to the military establishment and named for the 37th Military Hospital that once operated there. One honest note: if you're asking about a *current* development — a specific appointment, a recent commissioning, a change of command, or news from this week — I don't have a verified source in front of me for that. Tell me exactly what you want and I'll search deeper. For stable facts about the camp's role, layout and history, what I've given you above stands.