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Flooding incidents in Ghana’s capital are on the rise. Researchers chase the cause

Urban flooding is a major problem in the global south. In west and central Africa, more than 4 million people were affected by flooding in 2024. In Ghana, cities suffer damage from flooding every year.

The Conversation

Accra is a tough city to walk in: how city planners can fix the problem

Humans are walking beings. Walking is intrinsically linked to our physical development from childhood and enables our connections with people and places. We can say it is essential to our physical and mental well-being.

The Conversation

‘I did it for the experience’: Amoako Boafo, the artist who painted Jeff Bezos’s rocket ship

The Ghanaian’s dazzling work has been blasted into space and inspired a Dior collection. But, ahead of a new show, the ‘future of portraiture’ reveals how he originally wanted to be a tennis player

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‘Dead white person’s clothes’ mount up as Ghana’s Kantamanto market struggles to rebuild after fire

Six weeks after a devastating blaze in Accra ripped through one of the world’s biggest secondhand markets, many stalls remain unfinished and thousands still have no income

The Guardian - UK

Ghana’s urban strategies neglect the needs of street vendors: policy must catch up with reality

Street vending is a major economic activity in most of Ghana’s urban areas. The vendors bring everyday goods to residents and commuters at affordable prices in places convenient to them. However, the growing intensity of street vending activities in Ghanaian cities such as Accra and Kumasi is creating management problems…

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From escaped child bride to artist: why one Ghanaian painter puts women at the centre of her work

Hawa Awanle Ayiboro’s solo exhibition opens this month in Accra with paintings that explore a difficult period in her childhood and the emancipation of other women

The Guardian - UK

As gold prices surge, Ghana faces ‘looming crisis’ over illegal mining

Illegal and small-scale mining known as galamsey is contaminating the country’s rivers and soil, activists say.

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Limbo Museum: celebrating the architectural legacy of ‘unfinished business’

We’re won over by Limbo Museum and the work of Limbo Accra, which is bringing new life to abandoned buildings across West Africa, and wins a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025

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Ghana's John Mahama Sworn In After Presidential Comeback

Ghana on Tuesday swore in president-elect John Mahama in the capital Accra, with around 20 African leaders in attendance.

International Business Times

John Mahama takes oath as Ghana's president amid severe economic crisis

The new Ghanaian president, John Mahama, is being sworn in this Tuesday, 7 January, in Accra, as the nation looks for solutions to its worst economic crisis in a generation.

Radio France Internationale

Massive cleanup under way in Ghana after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets

Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each week

The Guardian - UK

Ghana’s ‘Year of Return’ delivers a bittersweet buzz as tourists push up prices

Success of Ghanaian president’s call to members of diaspora to visit country adding to inflation, say locals

The Guardian - UK

Ghana to Botswana: Why African voters are throwing out ruling parties

Several countries recorded total electoral power transfers while opposition groups made significant wins in others.

Al Jazeera

Ghana elections: Who is running and what’s at stake?

The country’s historically disadvantaged north is set to decide the tight race for the first time.

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Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boom

Estimated $2bn lost in missed taxes from environmentally destructive practice some blame on political corruption

France 24

Kenyan MPs vote to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua

Kenya's National Assembly has voted to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Some 281 MPs voted for the motion, with 44 voting against. Having fallen out of favour over the past year, Gachagua was criticised by both the opposition and deputies aligned with President William Ruto. Meanwhile, the civil war may…

The Guardian - UK

Where does the UK’s fast fashion end up? I found out on a beach clean in Ghana

There are enough garments in the world to dress the next six generations. Yet the number of clothes being produced in the global north is soaring – and poisoning poorer countries

Digital Camera World

Applications for the prestigious 15th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award extended to September 9

This edition of the award is dedicated to Southeast Asia and the violations of rights caused by illegal overfishing

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EU creates €32 million fund to boost drug and vaccine production in Ghana

The European Union (EU) has announced a 32 million euro initiative aimed at enhancing vaccine production in Ghana. The announcement was made during the Ghana-EU Business Forum held in Accra.

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Celebrating James Barnor, the photographer who captured pre- and post-colonial Ghana

Photographer James Barnor is in the spotlight at 95, his work the subject of a series of exhibitions and events in Ghana

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Dot.ateliers | Ogbojo is an 'oasis' for writers and curators in Ghana

Dot.ateliers | Ogbojo in Accra, Ghana was designed by emerging studio DeRoché Strohmayer for artist Amoako Boafo as a writer’s and curator’s residency space for the country's creatives

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Artist Abdur Rahman Muhammad reframes the ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag to consider migration

Abdur Rahman Muhammad casts the ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag in oils as a potent symbol of migration in ‘The Allegory of a Seeker’, on view at ADA gallery in Accra

Al Jazeera

Could shipping containers be the answer to Ghana’s housing crisis?

An initiative to help provide much-needed homes in Ghana is turning shipping containers into eco-friendly homes.

Wallpaper

‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence’ at the V&A is a bold exploration

London’s V&A presents ‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence’, a deep dive into 1940s architectural influences within West Africa and India

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Post-colonial party pads! The architects who got Ghana back in the groove

When the African country gained independence, its architecture exploded as the race to create a new identity began. We go behind the scenes at a show celebrating the builders of this fledgling nation

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