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July 18
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Ghana: Insuring Smallholder Farmers Against the Weather
Smallholder farmer Suleman Mustapha Simbia, 40, is pleased with the introduction of an insurance initiative called the Ghana Agriculture Insurance Programme. Read more »
May 30
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Ghana: Dreams of Education Fly Away for Ghana's Working Kids
It is a school day but 13-year-old Musah Razark Adams, a Grade 5 primary school pupil in Wuba, northern Ghana, is standing in a rice field wielding a "koglung" - a sling shot to... Read more »
November 13, 2012
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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 23, 2012
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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, 2012
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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 09, 2012
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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, 2012
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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, 2012
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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, 2012
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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, 2012
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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, 2012
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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 28, 2012
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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 19, 2012
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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 18, 2012
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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 »
February 29, 2012
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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, 2012
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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 01, 2012
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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, 2012
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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 »
December 21, 2011
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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
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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 03, 2011
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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 01, 2011
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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 26, 2011
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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 19, 2011
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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 »
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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 »
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