Climate finance in Ghana
An analysis of climate finance flows in Ghana shows that an annual average of USD 830 million was tracked in 2019 and 2020. This is a meagre 5-9% of its required investment — estimated between USD 9.3-15.5
Ghana
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Ghana Says Locals Used As 'Guinea Pigs' in Ebola Trial
Ghana has suspended a trial for an Ebola vaccine after complaints that locals were being needlessly used as "guinea pigs" in a country currently free of the deadly disease. A spokesman for the West
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Women and Health: the key for sustainable development
Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs. Population ageing and transformations
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Ghana: CIF Lauds Ghana's Renewable Energy Plan
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) unanimously endorsed Ghana's ambitious investment plan to transform and promote its renewable energy sector. The plan, which is slated to receive $40 million in funding
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Ghana charged to eliminate open-defecation
Mr Kamal Kar, Founder and Chairman of the World-wide Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Foundation, has asked government to demonstrate the political will towards eradicating open defecation in the
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Up to 90% of world's electronic waste is illegally dumped, says UN
Up to 90% of the world’s electronic waste, worth nearly $19bn (£12bn), is illegally traded or dumped each year, according to the UN Environment Programme (Unep). Computers and smart phones are among
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Africa: Key Africa Power Summit Opens in Cape Town
Cape Town — THOUSANDS of attendees from around the globe have converged in South Africa for the annual African Utility Week and Clean Power Africa to explore measures of securing the future development
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Analyses of freshwater stress with a couple ground and surface water model in the Pra Basin, Ghana
<p>The optimal management of water resources requires that the collected hydrogeological, meteorological, and spatial data be simulated and analyzed with appropriate models. In this study, a catchment-scale
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Rising through cities in Ghana: urbanization review
Rapid urbanization in Ghana over the past three decades has coincided with rapid GDP growth. This has helped to create jobs, increase human capital, decrease poverty, and expand opportunities and improve
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Nigeria, Others, Have World's Worst Energy Access-- Report
Nigeria and other countries of the Sub-Sahara African region have the world's worst access to electricity, the International Energy Agency, IEA, said in its latest report. The report said that the sub-region
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Nigeria: N425 Billion Plan for Malnourished Children Stalls
A national plan that could see local governments spend as little as N109.9 million every year until 2018 to cut malnutrition among children under five years has stalled since last year. The National