Global Sisters Report is publishing a special series about how trash is managed in the world and how sisters are helping people affected by landfills. We start this project to mark the one-year ...
SANTA CRUZ — Black smoke from burning e-waste and the acrid smell of sewage filled the air as Carson Watts walked through the slums of Old Fadama in the capital city of Ghana. Home to nearly 100,000 ...
play videoFrancis Asenso-Boakye is Ghana's Minister of Works and Housing Ghana’s Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, has assured world leaders that the country is committed to ...
A new report from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that nearly one-third of households in the country, about 29.5 percent, or roughly 4.8 million people, are living in slums or ...
Baby Hawa peers sleepily from the lappa strapping her to her mother’s back. Her mother, Mariama Issahaque, fries yam that she sells to residents and workers here. One-year-old Hawa looks sickly. Her ...
As part of the BBC's Young, Geeky and Black series looking at black coders, Bola Mosuro travelled to Ghana to meet women and girls being taught to code by a non-profit group, the Achievers club, which ...
The debate in the conventional literature on the nexus between housing improvement for slum dwellers and their economic well-being remains unsettled. The purpose of this study is to clarify the debate ...
Thousands were protesting in the slum popularly known as Sodom and Gomorrah. They blockaded roads after soldiers and police used earth-moving equipment to clear part of the slum. Authorities say the ...
Dear critical reader, the question to ponder over is: why does Ghana not use cutting-edge construction technologies to resolve Its Housing Crisis? We can make slums a thing of the past, as a bonus on ...
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Throughout Africa and particularly in Ghana, there are concerns about malaria infection during pregnancy. This study aimed to investigate factors that influence malaria prevention and control ...