Ghana’s real estate boom has focused on luxury housing.
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In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
The Bui Dam is a tangible reminder of China’s influence in Ghana.
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China’s engagement with Ghana was solidified by its willingness to undertake an expensive project Western partners had run away from.
Ghanaian students attend a class in a madrasa or Muslim school.
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Although Ghana has not been affected by religious conflict, the ways youth from the Muslim minority relate to their nation is an important question.
Ghana’s population has expanded its data categories
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Ghana’s latest population census offers a window into the contested terrain of population statistics.
Vaccine confidence is essential if the pandemic is to be brought under control.
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Vaccinating a population requires a proactive approach to health promotion and community preparedness.
The full benefits of a majoritarian democracy are undermined by a winner takes all approach.
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The disturbance in Ghana’s parliament during the election of a speaker has raised questions about its current democratic system.
The carving of the Volta region into two was met with resistance.
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The decision to create new administrative units is grounded in split opinions
Ghanaian university students hope to return home after studies abroad.
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Ghanaian students are losing patience with the lack of opportunities after graduation.
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The porous borders of West Africa allow for the unregulated movement of thousands.
Technology has been key in tackling fraud.
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Countries have adopted a wide array of measures involving a proliferation of fraud agencies.
West African cocoa farmers are largely poor despite the value of their crop.
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Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire’s best option is to control and restrict supply instead of simply adding a price premium.
Ghana’s Green Revolution has not been as successful as portrayed.
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Realities on the ground tell a different story from the claim that a Green Revolution ensures food security and increased income for smallholder farmers in Ghana.
Ghana produces excess electricity but its mangement is inefficient.
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Addressing inefficiencies in Ghana’s electricity sector will reduce the need to price in distribution losses
Climate change literacy is key.
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There are significant gaps in what teachers in Ghana know about ozone depletion and climate change, even though these subjects are in the science curriculum.
Health care professionals have to involve expectant fathers
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Fathers who attend antenatal care may be keen to support the well being of their partners and children, but are left unengaged and often disappointed.
The SWAT team of Ghana’s national security ministry.
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Ghanians fear that the country’s security services still bear the hallmarks of bad old practices.
Displaced people arrive in Pemba, Mozambique, after fleeing Palma following a brutal attack by Islamist insurgents in March.
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The Southern African Development Community does not have a remarkable record of military interventions in civil conflicts in the region.
Jerry Rawlings ruled Ghana for 20 years
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Jerry Rawlings found a unique path to legitimise his military rule in Ghana.
Trade partnerships rarely work in the West African region.
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EU trade partnership is more important to some African countries than regional or continental trade.
Ghana is struggling to curb a surge in car accidents.
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The inability to curb road accidents in Ghana is tied to colonial and neocolonial legacies.