AllAfrica News: Ghana

[The Conversation Africa] Agbogbloshie, in Ghana's capital city, Accra, is a sprawling, open-air scrapyard located next to a lagoon and a growing informal settlement. Roughly 6,000 people dismantle, recycle and burn old and broken electronics there.

[Ghanaian Times] The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has launched a healthcare scheme aimed at providing free medical healthcare to pensioners under the SSNIT pension scheme.

[Ghanaian Times] The Ministry of Health has warned that emerging nicotine products are undermining Ghana's progress in tobacco control, with flavoured shisha and electronic cigarettes increasingly attracting young people.

[Ghanaian Times] The Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) has called for an urgent overhaul of Ghana's stormwater management policies, warning that the country's existing drainage systems are no longer capable of addressing the challenges posed by rapid urbanisation, climate variability and increasing flood risks.

[Ghanaian Times] The Omanhene of Lower Dixcove, Nana Akwasi Agyeman IX, has cautioned against actions that could derail the success of the government's flagship Free Primary Health Care (PHC) programme, warning particularly about possible financial and administrative bottlenecks from central authorities in Accra.