The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GHANA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result GHANA
- Good stories going around hotel in African state
- Country couple I’d come after with anecdotes
- Country embraced by Afghan, apparently
- Reported harvest in country
- Government lies at the fore of understanding a country in Africa
- Country harvest picked up
- Horse caught by a horse back in the country
- A badger in lift touring hot country
- Part through an African country
- Country to store grain, we’re told
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