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The European Union (EU) has deployed a specialized team of humanitarian aid experts and technical workers to Ghana to support emergency relief ...
News Ghana » Northern » Social: Ghana: Mysterious killings in northern regions trigger security concerns
Interior Minister Henry Quartey has been summoned to parliament over the spate of killings in Ghana’s northern regions as analysts call for urgent security action to tackle the situation that has left ...
News Ghana » Northern » Social: Poverty remains high in Ghana's three northern regions - World Bank
Poverty remains significantly higher in Ghana’s three northern regions despite recent improvements in the economy, the World Bank has revealed.
News Ghana » Northern » Social: Ghana: Northern Think Tanks Meet to Plan Development
The Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Professor David Millar, has bemoaned government's attempts in the last century to address the poverty situation in the ...
News Ghana » Northern » Social: NDPC, ISODEC discuss research initiative to address inequalities in Northern Ghana
The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has held discussions with the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) on a proposed annual research and survey programme aimed at tracking ...
News Ghana » Northern » Social: Ghana braces for Sahel spillover as jihadist violence threatens vulnerable northern border
In the dusty Ghana border town of Bawku, gunfire is not an occasional sound. For decades, the community has been caught in a bitter ethnic feud, but in recent years, the clashes have taken on a new ...
News Ghana » Northern » Social: Ghana Faces Security Vulnerability At Northern Border
With extremists sowing chaos all around it, Ghana remains an island of calm. However, observers say conditions in the country’s northern regions may put that stability at risk. In Bawku and other ...
News Ghana » Northern » Social: Northern Regional Minister urges MMDCEs to ensure transparency in SOCO Project implementation
Tamale (N/R), Aug. 03, GNA –Mr. Ali Adolf John, the Northern Regional Minister, has called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the region to demonstrate transparency, ...
News Ghana » Northern » Social: Northern Ghana is underdeveloped because of underinvestment during colonial rule, not geography
Ghana’s most important development problem is arguably the disparity between the north and south of the country. The north is acutely underdeveloped, trailing the south in practically all metrics of ...
News Ghana » Northern » Social: Drought can make farmers feel worried and hopeless: Ghana study finds social networks help
Drought is a major climate hazard in semi-arid regions. Wikimedia Commons Droughts are a familiar hardship in Ghana’s semi-arid north, where rainfall is erratic and agriculture is the mainstay of ...