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The study yields the first direct chemical evidence for honeybee product exploitation in West Africa.
Mali’s president and prime minister have just been arrested and dismissed by the military junta which brought them to power in the first place a few months ago. How did this happen?
EU trade partnership is more important to some African countries than regional or continental trade.
Around the world, fragile coastal ecosystems are under intense pressure, and understanding and managing their complex interactions requires an integrated and interdisciplinary approach.
The contributions that women in West Africa’s fisheries make to the sector are widely un(der)paid, undervalued and largely invisible.
The devolution of small-scale mining decisions to municipal and district assemblies working in collaboration with traditional authorities is key to saving the industry in Ghana.
Advanced techniques allowed our research team to build an open database of billions of individual trees and challenge some common perceptions about vegetation in arid and semi-arid zones.
The inclusion of new topics in Ghana’s comprehensive sex education curriculum has split opinions among parents.
A stable ecosystem of organic matter is the key to improving agricultural yields in the surrounding farmland and fighting climate change.
ECOWAS needs to be decisive in enforcing its protocols and sanctioning members that flout the provisions of its protocols and policies.
Dam politics have resurfaced in Africa as the continent’s urban population grows.
Rural migrant farmers are bearing the brunt of climate change in Ghana
In Ghana, adult children are straining to care for their aged parents and there is an increasing sense that government needs to step in.
Lagos state must include the informal sector in its waste economy for inclusive development to happen.
The sub-region’s approach to free trade agreements, whether in the form of economic partnerships with the EU or regional and continental integration needs a rethink.
Jerry John Rawlings remains the most polarizing political figure in Ghana since Kwame Nkrumah
African countries need multi-sectoral approaches to tackle food insecurity.
Ghana’s history shows a strong connection between music and politics that has evolved over six decades.
The need for safety of the media and the fact that they reserve the right to convey stories about any subject is uncontested.
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