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Agbogbloshie is a vast, scorched field, right in the middle of Accra, Ghana, dotted with rusting hulks and heaps of scrap. Hundreds of people work here in what looks like hell: smashing, burning, ...

Several traders arrested at the Agbogbloshie Market are expected to be arraigned in court after defying repeated sanitation warnings under the Clean Ghana Campaign. The arrests followed a swoop by ...

Ghana’s infamous Agbogbloshie area has become “an international byword for ‘African e-waste dumping,'” journalist Adam Minter writes in a recent article. But, Minter states, the district in the middle ...

“Nana Akufo Addo says I should tell you that the services we give to the people of East Legon, we should give the same services to the people of Agbogbloshie”. The statement sent a rapturous cheer ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has dismissed claims that the Konkomba community is being singled out in plans to redevelop parts of Agbogbloshie into a proposed 24-Hour Market .

On any given day, plumes of noxious smoke rise above the Agbogbloshie dump site in Ghana's capital, Accra. The billowing black smoke comes from the many informal e-waste recyclers who take unwanted ...