SANTA CRUZ — Black smoke from burning e-waste and the acrid smell of sewage filled the air as Carson Watts walked through the slums of Old Fadama in the capital city of Ghana. Home to nearly 100,000 ...

Global Sisters Report is publishing a special series about how trash is managed in the world and how sisters are helping people affected by landfills. We start this project to mark the one-year ...

A new report from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that nearly one-third of households in the country, about 29.5 percent, or roughly 4.8 million people, are living in slums or ...

Ghana's biggest slum, Old Fadama, popularly referred to as Sodom and Gomorrah, was pulled down by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO). The ...

Seth Asare Okyere previously received funding from the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial (Panasonic) Foundation. He is currently part of a research team based in Japan that receives funding from the Japan ...

Authorities at the Ghana Lebanon Islamic Secondary School (GLISS) in Accra, alongside the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), are raising alarm over a fast-growing slum that now shares a boundary wall ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Due to a number of biological, social, developmental, and behavioural factors young people are disproportionately affected by STIs including ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Charles Darwin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Urban green spaces like parks with ...

Throughout Africa and particularly in Ghana, there are concerns about malaria infection during pregnancy. This study aimed to investigate factors that influence malaria prevention and control ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...