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Can Private Education Increase Enrolment and Completion Rates Among Africa’s Youth?
On July 3, Pearson, a UK textbook company, announced its launch of a £10 million (approximately 15.4 million USD, 12.7 million Euros) fund directed at affordable education for children from low-income households in Ghana. However, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) question whether it will improve school attendance, as many focus on raising […]
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Fighting the Drug, not the Disease
In his lead article, Death Threat, Daniel Kapellmann aptly indicated that, “NCDs (non-communicable diseases) are the main cause of death in most countries except for the African region”. This is a valid point because in Africa, the problem is not the disease; the problem is the drug! It will be […]
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Ten Years On: Remembering 9/11 From Many Miles Away
It was early afternoon here in Ghana some ten years ago. I remember walking into the living room and seeing a plane fly into a building on TV. Just coming from school, I thought it was a movie I had missed countless minutes of and so my first reaction was […]
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Record Gold Prices Spur More Illegal Mining
The practice of illegal mining is ages-old and in resource-rich Africa as constant as the harshness of the rising sun. Governments have battled with this informal sector for decades with laws that seek to place mining under a legal regime. The benefits to government would presumably be to increase tax […]