Ghana

Ghana Needs Well Crafted Housing Policy

24 May 2012

NATAG is an umbrella organization established to assist tenants through education, legal information and lobbying for tenants legislation, especially affordable housing and tenants rights.

Ghana's Witch Camps Slow to Close

24 May 2012

ACCRA - In northern Ghana, efforts are under way to disband six shelters for women accused of sorcery, known as "witch camps." Policy makers and some non-profit groups are working together to get the women reintegrated into their communities, but the plan is running into obstacles. Witch camps are settlements for women banished or fleeing from their communities for alleged witchcraft. They are ...

Debt-ridden Ghana oil refinery secures bailout

24 May 2012

TEMA, Ghana (Reuters) - Ghana's only oil refinery has secured some $900 million in financing from banks BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered to help it clear its debt backlog and purchase crude oil supplies, its manager said on Thursday. It is the second multi-million dollar bailout since 2010 for the 45,000 barrel-per-day plant, which has run only intermittently for years due to trouble securing ...