Ghana is one of the countries where initial community trials of ivermectin were performed in 1987–1991 [12], and was among the first countries to start an MDA pro- gramme with ivermectin in 1995, via mobile te
Petr, T. (1967) Fish population changes in the Volta Lake in Ghana during its first sixteen months. Hydrobiologia , 30 , 193–200.PETR. T 1967. Fish population changes in the Volta Lake in Ghana during its first sixteen months. Hydrohio/ogia 30: 193-220....
Since the late 1980s, Ghana has had a politically decentralized but largely fiscally centralized system (Jeong et al., 2017). It is divided into 261 Metropolitan areas, municipalities, and districts (hereafter referred to as districts) across sixteen regions. The district is the main sub-...
The High Atlas Mountains are the highest mountain range in north Africa and are a hotspot for biodiversity [42,50] and climate change [38]. This study looks at changing livelihoods in four villages in the western High Atlas. Given the intensity of climate change in the region, it is import...
Hair braiding at Makola Market in Accra, the capital of Ghana.Photo credit Fiona Graham, WorldRemit, CC BY-SA 2.0.GHANA: OVERVIEWCapital and largest city: Accra Surface area: 238,537 square kilometres | 0.8% of Africa Population: 28-million people | 2.3% of Africa’s population Population ...
The Best Places to Go in 2024 Accra, Ghana Go for:the heart of a pan-African cultural renaissance, Indigenous pop-up dinners, Afrobeats Afrochella Accrahas steadily been cementing its reputation as the continent’s capital of cool, and a reimagination of pan-African heritage has ignited the...
During the 16th and 19th centuries, an estimated 11 million Africans were enslaved to work in plantations. Up to 200,000 slaves were sent to the newly established regions of French Guiana and Surinam (former Dutch Guiana), near Brazil [1]. At first, the majority of slaves came from West ...
In this paper we describe the Subnational Human Development Database. This database contains for the period 1990–2017 for 1625 regions within 161 countries the national and subnational values of the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), for the th
Uses of vultures and/or parts of vultures Use frequency Sixteen and a half per cent of interviewees indicated that they had used vulture parts at least once, with no mention of the exact use made of them. It also emerged that the use of vultures was not related to the religion ...
CHAPTER 2 The Religious Space of Knowledge: The Basel Mission, Worldwide Webs and Pietist Purity 2.1 Pietists, Patricians and the Social Question in Basel The religious space of knowledge, in which the Basel Mission doctors were socialised, was rooted in the tradition of Pietism, which, along...