Sites like Agbogbloshie provides a valuable service. They offer opportunities for job creation, profit and cleaning up environments littered with waste.
The teaching of science and technology in ECOWAS states needs a boost.
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Ghana’s quest to fill a significant infrastructure deficit has led to a barter deal with China that threatens one of West Africa’s most important environmental spaces.
The higher the risk, the less likely that young, educated Ghanaians will get involved in corruption.
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It’s hoped that this new aviation legal framework will help Ghana to improve its reputation and performance in all sorts of safety and compliance measures.
The USAID’s Feed the Future program encourages farmers to use mobile money technology to enhance their farming activities.
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Selin Ozyurt, Agence française de développement (AFD)
In just five years, the number of mobile-money accounts in Ghana have jumped six-fold, providing fresh perspective on the country’s digital transformation.
Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely.
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Ghana has completed yet another IMF financial assistance programme. Given its long history of living within its means and then blowing the budget again, will it be knocking on the IMF’s doors soon?
People gather to look at the debris from a building that collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya in June 2017.
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The more people come to a city, the more demand for buildings is amplified.This demand creates pressure from which a range of agencies, motivations and causes arise.
Camera trap image of adult female chimpanzee with her offspring in fallow area in Moyamba district of Sierra Leone foraging on oranges.
Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary
Studies show that West Africa’s critically endangered chimpanzees are finding ways of adapting to their rapidly changing habitat, but they still remain highly at risk.
Military victims of a suspected terrorist attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2018.
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Ismaila Kane, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
A weakened central power makes it easier for violent groups - like highway bandits, local militias and armed bands of jihadists - to emerge and thrive.