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“Those Are Rules”: 12-Year-Old Sparks Controversy By Refusing To Cut His Long Hair For School

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Companies are trying to attract more smartphone users across Africa. But there are risks

Internet-enabled phones can play a unique role in sub-Saharan Africa, where infrastructure and public services are among the world’s least developed

The Independent UK

Cocoa Prices End Lower on the Outlook for Beneficial Rain in West Africa

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Friday closed down -45 (-0.61%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed down -108 (-1.73%). Cocoa prices settled moderately lower on Friday due to the outlook for much-needed rain in West Africa. Cocoa recovered from its worst levels Friday as short...

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Cocoa Prices Slip on Expectations for Needed Rain in West Africa

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) today is down -39 (-0.53%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is down -109 (-1.75%). Cocoa prices today are moderately lower. Cocoa recovered from its worst levels today as short covering emerged after updated weather forecasts lowered the rainfall amounts expected next...

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Cocoa Settles Sharply Lower as Volatile Price Moves Continue

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Thursday closed down -450 (-5.74%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed down -325 (-4.96%). Cocoa prices posted sharp losses on Thursday as the market continued its volatile price swings. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack of...

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Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds

Judges describe second novel set between south-east London and Ghana as ‘symphonic’ and ‘viscerally moving’

The Guardian - UK

Cocoa Sharply Lower as a Lack of Liquidity Sparks Volatile Price Moves

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) this morning is down -467 (-5.95%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is down -314 (-4.79%). Cocoa prices today are sharply lower as the market continues its volatile price swings. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack of liquidity,...

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Cocoa Prices Close Sharply Higher on Recovery After Monday's Plunge

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Wednesday closed up +521 (+7.12%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed up +405 (+6.59%). Cocoa prices on Wednesday settled sharply higher on ideas that this week's price plunge was overdone. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack...

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Cocoa Prices Recover More of This Week's Plunge

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) this morning is up +559 (+7.63%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is up +401 (+6.52%). Cocoa prices this morning are sharply higher on speculation that this week's price plunge was overdone. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack...

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Cocoa Prices Finish Moderately Higher in Volatile Trade

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Tuesday closed up +156 (+2.18%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed up +149 (+2.48%). Cocoa prices posted moderate gains on Tuesday as they recovered some of Monday's plunge. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack of liquidity,...

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Cocoa Prices Recover Some of Monday's Plunge

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) this morning is up +187 (+2.61%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is up +224 (+3.73%). Cocoa prices this morning are moderately higher, recovering some of Monday's plunge. Price moves in cocoa have been amplified by a lack of liquidity, with open...

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Cocoa Prices Finish Sharply Lower on Rain Forecasts for West Africa

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) on Monday closed down -1,725 (-19.40%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) closed down -1,565 (-20.69%). Cocoa prices on Monday plunged to 1-week lows and settled sharply lower. Forecasts for rain in West Africa are boosting the outlook for cocoa crops and...

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Cocoa Prices Plummet on Rain Forecasts for West Africa

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) this morning is down -1,707 (-19.20%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is down -1,550 (-20.49%). Cocoa prices this morning plunged to 1-week lows and are sharply lower. Forecasts for rain in West Africa are boosting the outlook for cocoa crops and...

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World Bank and IMF can press Ghana to rethink ‘punitive’ LGBTQ law, charities say

Charities and campaign groups are calling on bodies to say they may stop funding country if legislation comes into effect

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Ghana's Top Court Delays Hearing On Anti-LGBTQ Bill Challenge

Ghana's Supreme Court postpones hearing on anti-LGBTQ bill challenge, stirring controversy and debate.

The Hindu

Salone Del Mobile 2024 | Vikram Goyal’s design stopover in Milan

Delhi-based designer Vikram Goyal shares finds from this year’s Salone del Mobile — from lamps woven with PET bottles and Ghanaian grass to deconstructed furniture

France 24

Flood-hit Kenya, Tanzania brace for Cyclone Hidaya

In tonight's edition: Kenya and Tanzania brace for Cyclone Hidaya as heavy rains persist. Also, with millions on the brink of famine in Sudan, we speak to an activist monitoring the crisis who shares his concerns about an imminent attack on the city of El Fasher. Finally, royal treasures looted…

France 24

HRW reveals Burkina Faso massacre of villagers by army

Human Rights Watch says 223 civilians were summarily executed by soldiers in a single day in Burkina Faso. Also, heavy rain continues to bring devastation in Kenya's capital Nairobi, with roads turned into rivers. And it's been a year since Ghana started using a new malaria vaccine. Children have received…

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Two new malaria vaccines are being rolled out across Africa — how they work and what they promise

Malaria incidents are on the rise. There were 249 million cases of this parasitic disease in 2022, five million more than in 2021.

Fortune

Chocolate prices have exploded—as has the wealth of Mars and Ferrero family empires, outsizing two of the world's top cocoa-producing countries

The collective wealth of the Ferrero and Mars families beats the summed-up GDPs of Ghana and Ivory Coast, Oxfam's report said.

Al Jazeera

Could shipping containers be the answer to Ghana’s housing crisis?

An initiative to help provide much-needed homes in Ghana is turning shipping containers into eco-friendly homes.

Al Jazeera

UK returns looted Ghana artefacts on loan after 150 years

The objects were stolen from the court of the Asante king during the 19th century Anglo-Asante wars.

The Guardian - UK

‘My cast and crew’s safety kept me up at night’: why a queer Ghanaian film may never be screened

Joewackle J Kusi was finishing his film Nyame Mma when an anti-LGBTQ+ bill was passed, bringing the threat of prosecution for those ‘promoting’ queer stories

The Guardian - UK

‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric

Ibrahim Mahama has draped London’s brutalist landmark in 2,000 square metres of fabric, including robes that have been urinated on. The artist, whose rise has been meteoric, explains why

The Guardian - UK

‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism

As he prepares to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, Akomfrah talks about fleeing Ghana aged nine, the Rwanda fiasco, and creating images that shift the dial

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