Residents of Manso Asaman in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region have made a passionate appeal to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to install a new chief to restore traditional leadership and tackle the rising wave of crime and underdevelopment in the area.
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President John Dramani Mahama is backing calls by African leaders for a unified continental stance ahead of the 2025 G20 Summit. He emphasized the importance of Africa presenting a coordinated position to advocate for fair, prompt, and transparent debt restructuring mechanisms.
Her family is among 70,000 climate refugees who poured into Ghana’s Bono East region since 2023, escaping the Sahel’s advance. Now, they’re trapped in a cycle of exploitation and violence that exposes the human cost of global inaction
In the long and winding journey of nations, there comes a moment when conscience must rise higher than comfort, and integrity must stand taller than politics. Today, Malik Basintale, Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has sounded such a clarion call — a call that echoes from the lips of the ordinary youth in Suame, from the tired market women of Agbogbloshie, and from the weary street cleaners of Accra.
President John Dramani Mahama has revealed plans to provide 1,000 university scholarships for students from ECOWAS countries to pursue higher education in Ghana. The move is aimed at deepening regional integration through shared academic and cultural experiences.
In 2023, Ghana exported over $10 million worth of scrap metal, according to the Ghana Export Promotion Authority.
The “Galamsey Midwife” reveals the hidden SRHR crisis in Ghana’s illegal mining camps, where women and girls face sexual exploitation, mercury poisoning, and systemic neglect.
When Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama returned to power in 2025, many citizens hoped for strong economic recovery and peace. But few expected one of his boldest moves: a shift in foreign policy away from traditional Western allies like the United States and the European Union, toward Russia and Sahel countries like Burkina Faso and Mali. This move has drawn praise from Pan-Africanists and strong warnings from economists and security analysts.
For generations, Techiman’s farmers cleared fields with controlled burns. “Fire is our tractor,” explains cassava processor Kofi Boateng, gesturing at mounds of rotting mango peels outside Techiman Central Market. But climate change has weaponized tradition:
– *Rainfall has dropped 30% since 2020, desiccating crops into tinder
– Temperatures now spike to 42°C during Harmattan season
– 300+ tons of weekly market waste—with no municipal composting—pile up in fields
The Machine Sees What It’s Told to See
Cadbury’s Cocoa Life program says their AI can spot child labor with 85% accuracy, but only within the GPS locations given to them by cocoa cooperatives. That means if a child like Kofi walks out of the cocoa field and into a nearby mine, the system stops tracking him.
“Our satellites can identify children carrying machetes or cocoa sacks,” said a Nestlé sustainability officer, who asked not to be named. “But if that same child enters a mine pit after school? Our system marks that as ‘out of scope.’”