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Ghana’s cities are expanding at a breathtaking pace. From Madina to Cape Coast, from Sekondi-Takoradi to Tamale, concrete infrastructure are rising, wetlands are shrinking, and open lands are disappearing. But something else is rising quietly alongside this growth. Heat. And not just ordinary heat – dangerous urban heat.

Ghanaians are wearing the colorful fugu outfits in a trend triggered by online mockery

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH26 ) on Friday closed up +112 (+3.77%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26 ) closed up +133 (+6.25%). Cocoa prices rallied sharply on Friday as dollar weakness ($DXY ) spurred technical short covering in cocoa futures, which had reached deeply oversold levels following this...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH26 ) today is up +118 (+3.98%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26 ) is up +137 (+6.44%). Cocoa prices are sharply higher today as dollar weakness spurred technical short covering in cocoa futures, after cocoa prices reached deeply oversold levels following this week's plunge....

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH26 ) on Thursday closed down -258 (-8.00%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26 ) closed down -140 (-6.17%). Cocoa prices extended their six-week-long selloff on Thursday, sinking to 2.75-year nearest-futures lows. International cocoa buyers are reluctant to pay official prices for beans in the...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH26 ) today is down -232 (-7.19%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26 ) is down -124 (-5.47%). Cocoa prices extended their six-week-long selloff today, sinking to 2.75-year nearest-futures lows. International cocoa buyers are reluctant to pay official prices for beans in the Ivory Coast...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH26 ) on Wednesday closed down -158 (-4.67%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26 ) closed down -170 (-6.97%). Cocoa prices sold off sharply on Wednesday, with NY cocoa posting a 2.5-year nearest-futures low and London cocoa plunging to a 2.75-year low. International cocoa buyers...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH26 ) today is down -139 (-4.11%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH26 ) is down -158 (-6.48%). Cocoa prices are falling sharply today, with NY cocoa posting a 2.5-year nearest-futures low and London cocoa plunging to a 2.75-year low. International cocoa buyers are reluctant...

Clean technologies depend on critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt. Over 65% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nearly 40% of the world’s manganese is mined in South Africa. Substantial deposits of lithium are found in Zimbabwe. Ghana is emerging as a miner…

One year after the AI Summit in Paris, the international community will meet again this week in New Delhi for the Global Summit on Artificial Intelligence, whose objective will notably be to support the diffusion of AI uses in developing countries. In Africa, AI and Tech investment remains concentrated in…

Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the most serious crime against humanity," Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama announced on Sunday during the African Union Summit in Ethiopia.