Citizen participation in Ghana’s gold mining sector: A ray of hope for 'galamseyers'?

Mining registration in Ghana is expensive, cumbersome, encouraging illegal mining

Glimpses of Ghana: a changing profile?

In spite of declining poverty, residents of Ghana still struggle for subsistence

Ghana’s informal mining harms health and the land — but reforms must work with people, not against them

New strategies must minimise the detrimental effects of mining while maximising the beneficial ones

Long-term care for the aged in Ghana is on the back burner. Here is how to change it

The care of older people in care home facilities remains unaffordable for most people.

Climate change is affecting agrarian migrant livelihoods in Ghana. This is how

The impact of climate events will be worse on poor communities in the global south because most of them depend on environmental resources

Swift surveillance helped Ghana end Marburg outbreak: WHO

Two people died of the disease since the beginning of the outbreak on July 17, 2022

Poverty high in Ghana, but so is school enrollment

Households claim improvement in living conditions over last 10 years

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Money or trees? Ghana's dilemma

Cocoa wilts in Ghana

Ghana, known to provide a favourable price regime to cocoa farmers, discontinues the perks as the crop price crashes in international market

Ghana targets bringing a million fisherfolk under insurance cover

The nationwide rollout will cover all the landing beaches across the fishing communities in the country. The scheme was launched on December 1, 2015

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Radio stations in Ghana to talk about AIDS

Ghanaians are eating more fast food: The who and the why

More men consumed fast food than women because men do not often cook or lack basic cooking skills; consumption was also a display of social status&…

Natural resource extraction in Ghana needs tighter regulations, finds survey

Local communities deprived of their fair share of benefits, say participants

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How commodity exporting countries like Ghana have been hit by COVID-19

Between January and April 2020, industrial production dropped by 30% in EU and and 20% in US — two major trading destinations for Ghana.

One long yarn?

Recent studies say deforestation figures in west Africa have been exaggerated by Northern agencies

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No water, no vote

Hunger costs Ghana $2.6 billion per year

24 per cent of all child mortality cases in Ghana are associated with undernutrition

Why farmers in northern Ghana go to bed hungry

Rural food systems need to be transformed into productive, profitable activities for farming households

Ghana faces hurdles to achieve targets set for COVID-19 vaccine rollout

At least 60% of Ghana’s 31 million residents will need to be vaccinated for the population to attain herd immunity. But a timeline for this …

Ghana wants fewer polluting old cars on the road. But it’s going about it the wrong way

Africa has long been considered a destination for used vehicles