Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Ghana’s former foreign affairs and regional integration minister, has taken up the position of Commonwealth Secretary General, pledging to advance the values of the Charter amid growing global tensions and shifting alliances

Ghana's president, John Dramani Mahama, is showing lively activism in trying to re-establish relations and diplomatic ties, and not only, with the countries of the Sahel Alliance, namely Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Efforts to combat poaching of pangolins are being stepped up by authorities and conservation groups; in Ghana, the three native species - giant pangolin, ground pangolin and white-bellied pangolin - are all at risk of extinction

Despite significant progress in the use of clean fuels for cooking in the country, figures from the Ghana Statistical Service reveal that less than 1% of the poorest households have access to these safer and environmentally friendly energy sources

A new set of words, relating to cooking, dance, music, but also expressions of popular slang, from Ghana and Nigeria have made it into the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary; one example is 'Ghanaian banku', a paste of fermented maize and cassava