Electronic payments have expanded the Ghanaian economy.
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Taxing electronic payments is key to raising revenue form the informal sector
Kenyan police officers display bags of heroin seized in 2011.
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It has long been clear that some countries have drug policies that cause harm and violate human rights.
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“Fat cakes” are incredibly popular in cities and townships across sub-Saharan Africa. But they are also unhealthy because of their high carbohydrate content.
Real-time surveillance has been key to the global pandemic response.
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A post-pandemic healthcare service in Ghana and beyond may usefully incorporate elements of mobile health programmes.
Lagos, Nigeria is one of the cities growing at a rapid rate.
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All too often, urban reforms are led by technical and infrastructural change, rather than by engaging people.
Residents contend with the flooding after a downpour in Accra, Ghana.
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The fast growth of the metropolis and the city’s political significance, to its large informal economy and the challenges residents face.
Cocoa farming in West Africa is tinged with socio-cultural activities that are misunderstood by the West.
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Cocoa buyers and chocolate manufacturers still use various strategies to deflect when the issue of child slavery is raised
Private media in Ghana enables corruption through a combination of partisan reporting and weak journalism.
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Democratic freedoms alone are not adequate safeguards for the media’s anti-corruption work.
A woman places her mobile phone over credit card reader at grocery store checkout counter.
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The FinTech ecosystem in Ghana provided the basis for understanding how various actors work together to shape financial inclusion.
Female experts are a rare sight on Ghanaian media programmes.
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If women are to have a public voice in Ghana’s media ecology then a great deal more needs to happen.
Young Ghanaians in Europe visit home for different reasons.
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Trips to their home countries by migrant youth help them create and update their relationship with the countries their families come from.
There are calls to declare road accidents a public health scare in Ghana.
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Current methods of road carnage prevention in Ghana have proved unsuccessful .
Herder-farmer conflicts are on the rise in Ghana.
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Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
Farmers harvesting rice
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Smallholder rice farmers in Ghana should be supported by the government to access finance needed to adopt modern technologies for greater productivity.
Jerry Rawlings became a stalwart of democracy on the continent later in his life.
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Rawlings was a polarising figure, a person who led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in multiparty polls.
Key cashew producing countries in Africa are rolling out strategies to increase production and processing of raw cashew nuts.
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Ghana is losing out the booming global cashew industry in terms
of job and revenue generations.
Small-scale farmers use oxen to plough their farm in Kericho County, Kenya.
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Research questions the idea that getting commercial seeds and fertilisers to smallholder farmers will double yields and incomes.
Renewable energy technology holds promise for rural electrification.
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Current approaches to expand renewable energy in Ghana are not inclusive of the rural poor.
Chieftaincy holds pride of place in local administration in Ghana.
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Chieftaincy conflicts in northern Ghana have hindered development in the country.
Jamestown, Accra. The city’s authorities have done nothing to develop green spaces in the city’s slums.
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Ghanaian city authorities are focused on addressing problems of poverty, education and health rather than managing green spaces in slums