November 13

• Africa: Canada Eyes African Resources

  With an initial focus on oil-producing Nigeria and mineral-rich Ghana, Ottawa is bolstering its trade strategy in Africa, but some within the international development and economic... Read more »

August 24

• Ghana: Riding Towards Sustainable Development, On Bamboo

  In Ghana, a country burgeoning with traffic congestion, increasing economic growth, and a stark urban-rural divide, making frames of bicycles out of bamboo could be the key to... Read more »

August 15

• Africa: Surviving On a Meal a Day in Ghana's Savannah Zone [opinion]

  In order to ensure that he and his family survive this year's failed harvest, Adams Seidu, like farmers in other rural communities in Ghana's Northern Region, has implemented a... Read more »

August 10

• West Africa: UN Pushes for Piracy Summit

  When the United Nations advocates the protection of the world's oceans, its political agenda transcends the battle against marine pollution, global warming, overfishing, greenhouse... Read more »

July 27

• Ghana: President's Death Could Drive National Unity

  The death of President John Atta Mills will have a sobering effect on national politics in the months leading up to Ghana's December 2012 election, according to the Executive... Read more »

July 18

• Ghana: Understanding the Roots of Ghana's Child Labour

  At eleven years old, Thema, a native of Kumasi, hopes to be a nurse when she grows up. Currently, however, she is employed wandering between taxis and tro-tros or minibus taxis at... Read more »

July 12

• Ghana: Making It Compulsory to Have Women in Parliament

  Beatrice Boateng, a member of parliament with the New Patriotic Party, Ghana's official opposition to the ruling New Democratic Congress, has earned her place among the country's... Read more »

May 18

• Ghana: Autism 'Relegated to the Sidelines'

  At first glance Nortey Quaynor looks like any ordinary 29-year-old Ghanaian. If you spend a little time with him, though, you soon realise that something is different. Read more »

May 10

• Ghana: Major Effort to Reduce Child Mortality Not Enough

  Ghana has taken a major step towards reducing its under-five mortality rate by becoming the first African country to introduce two new vaccines for rotavirus and pneumococcal... Read more »

April 30

• Ghana: Youth Are 'The Future of the Nation' [interview]

  Aline Jenckel interviews SAMUEL KISSI, executive coordinator of Curious Minds, a youth advocacy organisation in Ghana. Read more »

April 20

• Ghana: Fisherfolk Blasting Their Way to Finding Fish

  Explosives, high-watt light bulbs, monofilament nets, and poison: these are a few methods fisherfolk are using to catch ever-dwindling fish stocks off Ghana's shores. Read more »

April 19

• Ghana: Western Ghana's Fisherfolk Starve Amid Algae Infestation

  Sam Kojo stands in a thigh-high pile of brown seaweed that blankets a beach in western Ghana. Behind him, a decomposing mound of Sargassum stretches down the shore past the fishing... Read more »

March 1

• Ghana: Father's Fight to Save Daughter From Genital Mutilation

  When Jack Sabadgou left Ghana for Switzerland 10 years ago, he left his infant daughter behind to be raised by her mother. Now he wants his child back, and he is running out of... Read more »

February 13

• Ghana: Need to Recognise Mental Illness As a Health Concern

  The incessant buzzing of mosquitoes was the first sign that there was something wrong. While Bernard Akumiah could clearly hear the small insects, there were none within his... Read more »

February 1

• Ghana: Radio Static for Community Stations

  There is a tension resonating through Ghana's airwaves, an electric current fueled by rivaling interests between community radio advocates and Ghana's National Communications... Read more »

January 20

• Africa: Progress Towards a Food-Secure Africa

  A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa... Read more »

January 5

• Ghana: Moving Towards a Food-Secure Country

  In Dundo village in Nyankpala district, Northern Ghana, 10 women are busy weeding a rice field on a piece of land donated to them by the village chief. Read more »

November 24, 2011

• Ghana: Tropical Ulcer Persists Despite Affordable Solutions

  For the past 10 years, Buruli ulcer has been eating Benjamin Essel's leg. The skin above his ankle is totally gone, and a swollen, pulpy and reddish wound rises almost up to his... Read more »

November 4, 2011

• Ghana: Majority of Elderly Women Miss Out on Pensions

  On the grubby edge of Old Fadama, Accra's infamous illegal slum settlement, 67-year-old Mariana Sayitou sits under a parasol and tends to her livelihood - selling several dozen... Read more »

November 2, 2011

• Ghana: Toxic Electronic Waste Contaminates Surrounding Area

  Mountains of hazardous waste grow by about 40 million tons every year. This waste, mostly from Europe and North America, is burned in developing countries like Ghana in a hazardous... Read more »

October 27, 2011

• Ghana: Stigma Stymies Breast Cancer Prevention

  Mary Mingle thought she had a boil on her breast, so she bought some medication and tried to treat it at home. Two months later, bothered by persistent pain, she went to the... Read more »

October 20, 2011

• Ghana: The Woes of Women Amid Climate Change

  As streams dry out, groundwater levels dwindle, and forests and other vegetation yield to droughts or sever storms, women who live their lives in the rural areas of Ghana have to... Read more »

October 19, 2011

• Ghana: Former Convicts Find New Hope

  At the age of 56, Frazer Ayee has a lot to look back on. He has been an armed robber and a kidnapper. He was involved in uprisings in Togo and Liberia. In 1988 he was sentenced to... Read more »

October 7, 2011

• Ghana: Woes for Disabled Persist Five Years After Act

  Emmanuel Joseph and George Amoah, two disabled Ghanaians, occupy different ends of the spectrum. The former lies on a piece of cardboard in Accra Central, his half-naked body... Read more »

September 26, 2011

• West Africa: Regional Govts to Take Joint Action on Piracy

  There have already been more than thirty pirate attacks on ships along the West African coast so far this year. Regional governments will meet in Cotonou, Benin in October to... Read more »