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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…

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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

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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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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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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.

Radio France Internationale

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

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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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Foreign exchange: several African countries have a shortage of US dollars - why this happens and how to fix it

A number of African countries, including Kenya, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia, are currently experiencing shortages of US dollars. The dollar is the dominant currency in international transactions. These countries rely on the US currency to pay for foreign debts, essential goods and industrial inputs. Development economist Christopher Adam…

Reuters

In Africa's fields, a plan to pay fair wages for chocolate withers

Ivorian cocoa bean farmer Edouard Kouame Kouadio expects to die poor, despite rising demand for the raw material that feeds the world's insatiable appetite for chocolate.

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Cocoa Prices Retreat as Cocoa Crop Quality Concerns in West Africa Ease

May ICE NY cocoa (CCK23 ) on Monday closed down -65 (-2.22%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK23 ) closed down -38 (-1.76%). Cocoa prices Monday settled moderately lower. Reduced cocoa crop quality concerns in West Africa have fueled long liquidation in cocoa futures. Ivory Coast and Ghana cocoa...

Radio France Internationale

China's global influence looms over Kamala Harris trip to Africa

When US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Zambia on Friday for the final stop of her week-long trip across Africa, she touched down at an airport that’s doubled in size and features glittering new terminals.

Evening Standard

Arsenal set for Thomas Partey injury boost in Leeds clash but William Saliba status uncertain

Key midfielder did not play for Ghana this week due to fitness issues but should make a swift return

The Conversation

Does democracy fuel corruption? Most Ghanaians don't think so

Does democracy breed corruption – particularly in developing countries?

Reuters

Kamala Harris wraps up Ghana visit, heads to Tanzania

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet Ghanaian women entrepreneurs on Wednesday to discuss economic empowerment and leadership, her last engagement in Accra before heading to Tanzania to continue her week-long African tour.

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