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Could shipping containers be the answer to Ghana’s housing crisis?

An initiative to help provide much-needed homes in Ghana is turning shipping containers into eco-friendly homes.

Finished eco-homes made from shipping containers. These are much less expensive than traditional houses and use less energy [Courtesy of Eric Kwaku Gyimah]

Season of intimidation: Attacks on Ghana press escalate ahead of 2024 polls

Ghanaian journalists become targets of political actors and security operatives ahead of 2024 elections.

Ghanaian journalists at a funeral

Ghana police arrest 49 as high cost of living triggers street protests

In recent months, public discontent has been growing in Ghana over the rising cost of living for everyday people.

Ghanaians march in the streets over recent economic hardships

Africa’s coup epidemic: Has democracy failed the continent?

The support for military takeovers is growing across Africa, and civilian governments are to blame, say analysts.

Big Question on coups in Africa

A coup happened in Niger. Then onion prices doubled in Ghana

Niger, a key exporter of dry onions in West Africa, is responsible for 70 percent of onion imports by Ghana.

Sacks of onions being offloaded from a vehicle from Niger at the Adjen Kotoku Market in Ghana

A tale of two cities: Diaspora influx hikes cost of living for Ghanaians

The Year of Return in 2019 attracted foreign investment to Ghana but locals say it has led to soaring prices in Accra.

American tourist, Divine Koufahenou takes a picture of her Mother Afi and her friend Dawn Kravig at the 'Door of No Return' at the Cape Coast Slave Castle in Ghana

‘Not a life worth living’: A Nigerian migrant sex worker in Ghana

How one woman made a desperate cross-border sacrifice to build a better life for her family and get them out of poverty.

Diamond, a Nigerian sex worker in Kasoa, Ghana

Cathedral of scandals: How a presidential promise divided Ghana

The $400m state-funded church has become hugely controversial in Ghana as the country struggles with an economic crisis.

Stalled work at the construction site of the Ghana National Cathedral in Accra, Ghana, on November 30, 2022 [Nipah Dennis/ Al Jazeera]

How Ghana, Africa’s rising star, ended up in economic turmoil

The West African nation is a major cocoa and gold exporter, so why is it battling its worst economic crisis in decades?

A street in Ghana

Ghana’s talented but ignored inventors

A father and his pilot son in a country with no history of manufacturing are making products that will stun the world.