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Addressing the Issue of Plastic Pollution

On the heels of a challenging year dominated by the COVID pandemic, the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) and its partner governments have met critical milestones, including: Ghana, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Viet Nam came together as early adopters in the Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership Ghana committed to a 100% circular economy for plastics “Plastic […]

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Aburi Girls SHS To Represent Ghana At Global Robotics Competition

Twelve students from the Aburi Girls’ Senior High School in the Eastern region are representing Ghana this year in the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge — the fifth iteration of the global Olympics-style robotics event. This year’s theme, “Discover & Recover,” focuses on overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic by discovering opportunities for innovative recovery and will have […]

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Group of fintech and SME representatives at a Ghanaian event promoting digital finance.

Fintechs, SMEs And Digitization In Africa – Ghana Leads The Charge

Eric Osiakwan Three leading Ghanaian fintechs; Hubtel, ExpressPay and IT Consortium joined forces to build Ghana government’s portal https://www.ghana.gov.gh – a digital services and payment platform for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Startups and citizens to access government services at the click of a button. Despite being competitors, these tech ventures saw the need to collaborate […]

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Covid-19 Widens Learning Gap For Girls In Rural Ghana

By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri Seventeen-year-old Muniratu Adams, a form two student of the Jeyiri D/A Junior High School at Funsi in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region of Ghana, is fortunate to have returned to school this January after the long COVID-19 shutdown. Ghana’s education sector was one of the hardest affected by […]

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Ghana Sees Huge Uptake Of Digital Communication Channels As Covid-19 Pushes Organisations To Improve CX

By Olufunmilayo Okubena, Country Manager at Infobip Ghana To a large extent, enhancing the customer experience (CX) has been a game of catch-up for most organisations in Ghana, until the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic which significantly accelerated the uptake of digital channels by enterprises last year. As the pandemic drove consumers to avoid traditional physical […]

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Uber Expands Partnership With Moove To Empower Drivers In Ghana

Partnership increases access to car ownership with flexible rental and drive-to-own options After successful launches in Nigeria and South Africa, Uber has extended their partnership with Moove, Uber’s preferred fleet partner in Sub-Saharan Africa, to provide potential and current Uber drivers in Ghana with long-term access to vehicles. The largest partnership of its kind, the […]

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Aerial view of lush green trees in a restored African pasture landscape.

Bringing Greener Pastures Back Home

Across Africa, agriculture accounts for 80 percent of employment but land degradation is leaving families and young people without food or income security and thus forcing them to search for greener pastures. ...
Luxury Ghanaian hotel with modern architecture and vibrant outdoor seating area.

Opportunity for Investment in Ghana’s Hospitality Industry

Are you looking to invest in Ghana’s hospitality industry? One of the most frequently visited tourist destinations in English-speaking West Africa is Ghana, for many obvious reasons. The country is not in any way lacking in tourist attractions, especially for those interested in nature and West African slave trade era history. The Kakum National Park, […]

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Ghana’s Industrialisation To Benefit From Tema LNG Terminal

By David Whitehouse Sub-Saharan Africa’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at Tema can turn Ghana into a petroleum hub, Tema LNG managing director Edmund Agyeman-Duah tells The Africa Report. The project, built at a cost of $350m, can be a “driver of growth” for Ghana and the region, says Agyeman-Duah. It will provide year-round […]

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African proverb about the importance of wisdom and cultural values.

The Meaning Behind Akan Proverbs

Culture plays a big role in what we feel, how we identify these feelings and what we do to deal with our emotions. So, those raised in more “macho” cultures may be more likely to suppress emotions like sadness or fear. Cultural products are often useful in explaining human behaviour within a cultural context. These “products” include stories, proverbs, […]

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