Two decades ago, the region of Agbogbloshie in Ghana was a lush mangrove swamp. Now, reporter and photographer Yepoka Yeebo explains, it's a vast... A Shadow Economy Lurks In An Electronics Graveyard ...

The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ms Linda Obenewaa Akweley Ocloo, has directed traders at the Agbogbloshie Onion Market to vacate the area in lieu of a major decongestion exercise scheduled next ...

The now-demolished Agbogbloshie Scrapyard in Accra, Ghana, once received about 15,000 tons of electronic waste each year, making it one of the largest e-waste processing sites in Africa. (Muntaka ...

“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge ...

ANN ARBOR—A University of Michigan study found that people in Ghana and across the Global South who recycle electronic waste face a difficult paradox: earning livelihoods to ensure survival comes at ...

At Agbogbloshie market, a small bowl of carrots that sold for five cedis last year now goes for ten, or more .

Awuah-Darko and his university friends have ambitious plans for the sprawling Agbogbloshie dumping ground in Ghana's capital, Accra. "It's survival and dystopia," says the 21-year-old British-born ...

The Minister for Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has signed a US$12.83 million grant agreement with the African Development ...

When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation's capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of ...