The highly addictive pain medication Tramadol is being sold as a street drug
Bad luck, corruption or incompetence – the jury is out on what derailed Ghana’s economy under its current president
Nearly 1.8-million Ghanaian workers were unemployed by the third quarter of 2022
In 2010, Ghana came close to being the first African team to reach the semifinals. They have set their sights on going a step further in Brazil.
Most taxis in Ghana carry some inscription on the back windows. Some are funny, others don’t seem to mean anything — not until the owners explain.
On a bus ride to Koforidua, Francis Kokutse’s ears burn as his fellow passengers lie into their cellphones.
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/ 3 November 2008
‘Dem youthboy defied every order and turned a senator’, says a Cameroonian reggae song that captures the country’s rapture with Obama.
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/ 4 September 2008
There’s no point working up a sweat about African Time in Accra, says Francis Kokutse.
Illegal logging, which is decimating the forests of Ghana, has been getting worse as global demand for timber grows.
”Give it to God.” These are the words inscribed on the front of the huge truck that goods transporter David Agbalanyo drives between Ghana and Burkina Faso. Agbalanyo has indeed been giving — to officials who abuse their God-like power over those who wish to pass on the roads that link the two countries.