A bill that would make it a crime to be gay, bisexual or transgender has shocked the local LGBTIQ+ community and raised fears over a possible surge in discrimination and violence ... Read more »

West Africa has handled the pandemic response relatively well thus far, with lessons learned from the 2014/15 Ebola outbreak. However, with the highly transmissible Delta ... Read more »

Ghana's democracy takes the western majoritarian form, in which the majority side is "always right". It gives governments a freer hand to enact the policies on which they ... Read more »

The Green Revolution - the introduction of new higher-yielding seed varieties, increased use of fertiliser, irrigation, and other mechanisation introduced since the 1960s - brought ... Read more »

Science education is critical at a time when many countries need to respond to the potential impacts of climate change and ozone depletion.  Ghana ... Read more »

The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with global school closures and inadequate government assistance, is pushing children into exploitative and ... Read more »

Former Ghanaian President John Mahama has quit his role as the African Union High Representative to Somalia, more than a week after Mogadishu rejected his deployment, citing bias. ... Read more »

It has been almost ten years and dozens of shops belonging to Nigerians are still under lock and key. The centre of the lingering controversy was a U.S.$1 million levy imposed on Read more »

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex right groups has slammed social media giant Twitter's decision to open a office in Ghana as "a slap in the face" for sexual ... Read more »

Chocolate production for the domestic consumer market is discouraged by an extremely high tax rate of nearly 60% on domestic sales of chocolate and semi-finished cocoa products. ... Read more »