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West Africa has a small weapons crisis – why some countries are better at dealing with it than others

Research has found that globally, small arms and light weapons increase the likelihood, intensity and longevity of conflict.

The Conversation

Vegan passenger given fruit and nuts on 7,400km flight

Juanita Headley had been travelling from Accra, Ghana to London Heathrow with KLM

The Independent UK

From the Deep: an underwater kingdom for enslaved people who died in the Atlantic

The pre-Afrofuturist mythology of Drexciya is explored in an immersive and ambitious new exhibition from Ayana V Jackson

The Guardian - US

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Ghana’s regions: why creating new territories has caused problems

Ghana split four administrative regions between June 2017 and February 2019 to create six new ones. The process proceeded calmly in some regions, but was so contentious in others that the government had to deploy security forces to prevent clashes. Eventually, all six regions were created. The conflicts were unexpected.…

The Conversation

The big picture: a joyful expression of Ghanaian culture

Derrick Ofosu Boateng’s vibrant portraits grew out of a love of traditional and vintage clothing

The Guardian - UK

Right to Dream’s vision helps children reach potential in football and beyond

Tom Vernon started RTD in Ghana in 1999 and its reach has extended to FC Nordsjælland’s chase for the Danish Superliga

The Guardian - UK

History classes help students develop curious minds -- but Ghana's teachers aren't equipped to nurture this

There are two camps when it comes to teaching children: one says teachers should focus on guiding students to find things out for themselves. This approach makes learning meaningful and prepares students to connect learning to the real world. It’s known as inquiry-based learning.

The Conversation

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Accra: the Ga people's annual ban on noise restores a spiritual connection with the sea

Accra, Ghana’s capital, is a noisy cosmopolitan city of almost three million people. Its active nightlife, commercial markets and factories create a deafening mix of sound trails day and night. These synthetic sounds have practically drowned out the natural everyday sounds of Accra. And the most important of these is…

The Conversation

Amma Darko uses fiction to portray the real plight of women and street children in Ghana

Amma Darko is one of Ghana’s leading novelists, known for exploring gritty social issues and the lives of women. There is much to be unearthed in the childhood narrative of deprivation and danger that she tackles in her 2003 work Faceless.

The Conversation

How dirty old used cars from the US and Europe carry on polluting ... in Africa – podcast

The typical car will go for its last drive sometime between its 10th and 15th year on Earth. At this point, the vast majority are sent to be recycled or sold for parts. But for a few autos, a second lease on life awaits, as a significant percentage are exported…

The Conversation

Manchester United report: Ghanaian superstar set for £40m move, after Erik Ten Hag's "incredible potential" comment

Manchester United are being linked with a £40m move for a Ghanaian forward to bolster their numbers in attack

FourFourTwo

Cathedral of scandals: How a presidential promise divided Ghana

The $400m state-funded church has become hugely controversial in Ghana as the country struggles with an economic crisis.

Al Jazeera

Debt dangers in Africa: how defaults hurt people, and why forgiveness isn’t the answer

Public debt repayments in some African countries are at their highest levels since 1998. The Conversation Africa’s founding editor Caroline Southey talks to dean and economics professor Philippe Burger about the danger of debt problems some African countries face.

The Conversation

Jojo Gronostay: capturing the close-up brutalism of the everyday

Photographer Jojo Gronostay presents his series "Brutalism" at the 104 cultural centre (Le Centquatre) in Paris. With this series of photos of used shoe heels, found in Accra, Ghana, which looks like a succession of monuments of brutalist architecture, Jojo Gronostay questions the economic, political and cultural exchanges between the…

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The Conversation

Ghana's fishing industry has a 'golden seaweed' problem - how citizen science can help

Sargassum is a genus of brown seaweed. Over 300 species are distributed across the world in both temperate and tropical climates. The species fluitans and natans are unique because they spend their life cycle floating on the ocean, never attaching to the sea floor. Other seaweed species reproduce and begin…

The Conversation

Juvenile offenders in Ghana aren't prepared for rejoining society - how the system is failing them

Globally, about one million children are held in police custody annually; 410,000 of them are held in detention and remand centres. On any day, it is estimated, remand homes around the world hold about 160,000 to 250,000 children.

The Guardian - UK

African journalists are dying. They need the world’s help to hold power to account

A politician being investigated for corruption in Ghana has called for me to be hanged, but with my colleagues I am determined to take on the kleptocrats

Evening Standard

Ghana becomes first in the world to approve new Oxford University malaria vaccine

The mosquito-borne disease kills more than 600,000 people every year, mostly children

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Ghana becomes first country to approve new malaria vaccine

Ghana is the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine, from Oxford University, aimed at children under the age of three, who are most at risk of dying from the disease.

The Independent UK

Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana

Ghana became the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine for young children that may offer better protection against the disease that kills hundreds of thousands every year

The Independent UK

Oxford malaria vaccine wins first approval from Ghana in ‘significant milestone’

600,000 die every year from the disease, mostly children in Africa

The Conversation

El Anatsui creates gigantic artworks from recycled materials - why the world fell in love with him

The artist El Anatsui was born in Ghana and has spent the bulk of his career in Nigeria, but is a citizen of the world. News of a major new installation of his work coming to the prestigious Tate Modern gallery in London is just one in a string of…

The Guardian - UK

Ghana is first country to approve Oxford malaria vaccine

Breakthrough hailed as highly effective R21 vaccine is cleared by west African country but questions remain over funding

Los Angeles Times

A once reluctant Harris embraces her biracial identity in Africa

LUSAKA, Zambia — Crowds of locals packed onto balconies and cheered as Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade pulled onto a manicured, palm-tree lined driveway, near where she had visited her grandfather in the late 1960s. But something wasn't quite right.

Los Angeles Times

Want the real Afrobeats experience? For many Black Angelenos, that means a trip to Africa

LOS ANGELES — The first thing Dee Williams noticed was that it felt like home.

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