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Imported E-waste Turns Ghana into a Giant Polluted Landfill

For most of the developed countries, Ghana represents nothing more than an enormous landfill where electronics arrive form Europe and North America.Our paperless offices save a few forests, but imply other risks, quite common in our modern society. Toxic compounds coming from out-of-fashion electronics which we no lo...

5 November 2011
08:00 GMT

Man Kills Himself after Falling Victim to a 419 Scam

The son of a 67-year-old man from Yonkers, New York, who shot himself, believes his father committed suicide after realizing that he felt victim to a 419 scam that cost him over $50,000.Peter Circelli, says that after his father's death he discovered emails suggesting that he was romantically involved with a wom...

19 August 2010
07:14 GMT

Homeland Security Secrets Acquired for Less than $40

Journalism students from University of British Columbia (UBC), who were investigating e-waste dumping in underdeveloped countries, have uncovered a serious data breach. They have found U.S. government contracts marked sensitive on a scrapped HDD acquired from an open-air market in Ghana. UBC Associate Professor Pete...

26 June 2009
05:48 GMT

Trees Are the “Soul” of Remote Villages

Life in the rural areas of the African nation of Ghana is not as “independent” as one may think, as far as having everything you need around the house goes. In these regions, trees and forests are vital for people in forsaken villages who have been living in harmony with nature for several thousand years....

20 March 2009
10:59 GMT

Vodafone Forays Deeper into African Market - Buys 70% of Ghana Telecom

Vodafone, the giant global mobile operator, has announced it will acquire 70% of Ghana Telecom (also known as Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited) from the Government of Ghana, for a total of about $900 million (274 million Euros or 454 million GBP). Ghana Telecom is the main supplier of fixed telephony service...

4 July 2008
09:26 GMT

Men Arrested for Selling Toilet Soap as Mobile Phone

Two men have been arrested after being caught selling toilet soap molded as mobile phone to an unsuspecting customer. The problem of illegal phone dealers has seen a real outbreak over the past years in Ghana and the Police is now working on ways to solve it.Kwadwo Addei, 22 and Desmond Nkwah, 20 were only two of the...

31 July 2007
08:51 GMT


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