While promoting better risk reduction is always sensible, it leads to a tendency for disaster management systems to lean heavily on experience and systems designs of other countries
Cocoa farming in West Africa is tinged with socio-cultural activities that are misunderstood by the West.
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Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
Informal workers in West Africa have been hardest hit by covid-19 lockdowns.
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Resolving jihadist conflicts in the Sahel requires treating jihadists not as terrorists only but also as political actors who seek to provide an alternative form of governance to the status quo.
Renewable energy technology holds promise for rural electrification.
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Money cowries were used for thousands of years as currency across the Indo-Pacific world but introduced into Atlantic commercial networks relatively late.
Flooding is projected to increase in eastern Africa.
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The report projects an increase in mean temperatures and hot extremes across the continent. Worryingly the rate of temperature increase across the continent exceeds the global average.
Ghana’s real estate boom has focused on luxury housing.
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