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For Persons With Disabilities in Ghana, Accessibility in Urban Transportion is an Afterthought - The Labari Journal Persons with disability in Ghana face constant discrimination and lack of accessibility infrastructure to commute in Ghana

For Persons With Disabilities in Ghana, Accessibility in Urban Transportation is an Afterthought

“Immediately they see you with physical challenges or visual impairment, they find ways and means just to stop you from boarding their vehicles.”

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#Ad feature presented by World Heart Federation. The foundation going above and beyond for stroke survivors in Ghana #Ad feature presented by World Heart Federation. The Stroke Association Support Network-Ghana is aiming to reduce treatment delays and improve education among Ghana's population

Enjoyed spending time with a network of health workers and stroke survivors working to improve awareness and care of cardiovascular diseases. Wrote about them for @bbcstoryworks.bsky.social

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Lots of signings, not many goals: Why most Premier League sides are yet to click The quality of attacking football this season has been way down on previous campaigns, but new players need to time to settle

Lots of new signings - not many goals. It's quite tough to get cohesion between new attackers at this stage of the season, and watching some really quite bad Premier League games so far underlines that.
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Ghana Remains Trapped in the Worsening Clientelism Nightmare of Elections - The Labari Journal Delali Adogla-Bessa writes about how the recent Ablekuma North elections in Ghana show that partisan politics encourages "Clientelism" in local elections

Looked back on the nasty fiasco that devolved from what should have been a simple election rerun.

While Ghana saw the continuation of its election nightmare, it will soon have a good opportunity to prove that this is a nightmare we can wake up from.
labarijournal.com/ghana-remain...

For Persons With Disabilities in Ghana, Accessibility in Urban Transportion is an Afterthought - The Labari Journal Persons with disability in Ghana face constant discrimination and lack of accessibility infrastructure to commute in Ghana

For Persons With Disabilities in Ghana, Accessibility in Urban Transportation is an Afterthought

“Immediately they see you with physical challenges or visual impairment, they find ways and means just to stop you from boarding their vehicles.”

labarijournal.com/for-persons-...

Real humbling news from Ghana today.

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west's help | Owen Jones The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all along, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west's help | Owen Jones

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ghana | Recurring fires ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

Rejigged some earlier concerns about the foundations of John Mahama's reset for ZAM Magazine.

As we work to rebuild, let's remember that it can all come tumbling down... again.

Ghana Remains Trapped in the Worsening Clientelism Nightmare of Elections - The Labari Journal Delali Adogla-Bessa writes about how the recent Ablekuma North elections in Ghana show that partisan politics encourages "Clientelism" in local elections

Looked back on the nasty fiasco that devolved from what should have been a simple election rerun.

While Ghana saw the continuation of its election nightmare, it will soon have a good opportunity to prove that this is a nightmare we can wake up from.
labarijournal.com/ghana-remain...

Zone of Interest

This has got me thinking of the numerous spam emails I get pushing experts in various fields.

Sigh

Noticed a shift in the weather lately? You’re not the only one. A majority of Africans across 30 countries surveyed in 2024/2025 say the past decade has seen more severe droughts (55%). A similar proportion (54%) say crop failures have intensified. So this week, with World Environment Day (5 June) fresh in our minds, we’re asking: How have these and other consequences of climate change affected lifestyles and livelihoods on the continent? Asked about adaptations they and their families have had to make over the past five years, a third (33%) of respondents say they switched their water source or cut their level of consumption. Three in 10 say they adjusted outdoor workloads or schedules (30%) and altered their eating or crop-planting practices (30%). A quarter (26%) of those who keep livestock changed their grazing patterns or reduced their holdings. And nearly one in five (18%) physically moved homes. Climate change has hit the poor particularly hard: On every metric, they are between 12 and 15 percentage points more likely than the rich to have been forced to adapt their ways. #ClimateChange #TheContinent #Africa

Trying to weather the storm

Amid worsening drought and crop failure, Africans are adjusting their lives and habits to climate change.

Check out @afrobarometer.bsky.social’s latest survey in this week’s issue of The Continent: bit.ly/202_TC

Trump’s unfounded attack on Cyril Ramaphosa was an insult to all Africans | John Dramani Mahama If we want to solve injustices in Africa today, we cannot forget the injustices that shaped our shared history, says Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama

Ghana's president John Mahama penned a welcome opinion piece standing up for our kin in South Africa and slamming the latest attempt by Trump to undermine truth and pervert history.

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Netflix Keeps Ruining Action Movies | Defector Gareth Evans is the patron saint of people getting their shit wrecked. In films like Merantau, Apostle, and The Raid diptych, people get chopped by machetes, whacked with broom handles, tossed…

Netflix keeps ruining action movies: defector.com/netflix-keep...

Excellent piece, with a lot of industry details I wasn’t aware of previously

The flooding in urban Accra today has been depressing.

Every year talk and grand standing but in the background, the state continues to allow buildings on waterways.

Ghana | Recurring fires ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

Rejigged some earlier concerns about the foundations of John Mahama's reset for ZAM Magazine.

As we work to rebuild, let's remember that it can all come tumbling down... again.

Amen!

ICJ dismisses Sudan’s genocide case alleging UAE backing of RSF rebels Top UN court says it does not have authority to rule on case accusing UAE of arming Rapid Support Forces paramilitary.

The ICJ decision to dismiss the case against the UAE charged with genocide in Sudan will only embolden them to ramp up their support for the RSF including their drone support. These international systems of justice don't work, they merely delay justice.

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Like the Kantamanto market reset, Mahama is treading a path that failed us in the past The first major news item of the year in Ghana was the fire that razed large parts of the Kantamanto market in Accra on January 2. The fire devastated thousands of traders and forced them into a re…

Been thinking about the new beginnings for the recently razed Kantamanto market and our ravaged governance structure.

Unfortunately, all indications are that history will repeat itself on both fronts.

Wrote about the start of John Mahama's ambitious GoldBod play in the latest edition of @thecontinent.org

Full issue here: thecontinent.org

Documenting some plastic waste recycling efforts this morning.

Good morning everyone, I hope you’re all having a lovely week. Today’s Stamp of the Day is this 4500 cedi stamp from Ghana.

Issued - 2004
Type - Commemorative
Print Method - Offset Lithography

Please share your stamps from 🇬🇭 and have a superb day.
#stampcollecting #philately

ghana's new dvla chief says the public outfit has legacy debts of ~three hundred million cedis, plus another one hundred fifty million usd on the books. rot, corruption. you can't in good faith pile up that level of debt at that place. there's no service that isn't paid for at the dvla

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Lmao. KemiKaze

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