Celebrating its 10th anniversary of calling on world leaders to bring an end to extreme poverty by 2030, The Global Citizen Festival returned this year with twin shows held simultaneously in New York ...

As Christmas draws closer, the streets of Accra are already humming with festive cheer, not from loudspeakers or concert stages, but from the voices of everyday Ghanaians.

Salamatu Abubakar spent years of her childhood picking up scraps of plastic on the streets of Accra, the African coastal city that is the capital of Ghana. Her dad took the plastic to an open air ...

Even in large cities, many streets in Ghana have no official name. Photo credit: Francisco Anzola via Flickr Creative Commons I needed to find the bus station or, to be more precise, the crowded ...

In Ghana’s bustling media landscape, a new digital entrant is betting that the future of journalism lies not just in Parliament House or corporate boardrooms, but on the country’s streets. That ...

Life without an address is hard and even dangerous. A nonprofit recently used mapping technology to help an Atlanta-sized Ghanaian city bring order to the chaos and improve public services. In most of ...

For a more immersive shopping experience, head to Makola Market, Accra’s biggest and most chaotic market area, where you can ...

Less than six months after the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) removed hundreds of migrant beggars from the streets of Accra in a major operation to restore order, many of have returned to base in ...

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