Ghana: Accra - a City Or a Slum. 27 May 2004. Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra) THE CITY of Accra, like other conurbations in this country, has undergone lop-sided and uncontrolled expansion and ...

Accra is Ghana's largest city, with rapid population growth and high land and housing prices. This situation has resulted in the development and expansion of slums and informal settlements, and ...

The Sub Metro Director of Okaikoi South, Mr. Nathaniel Adzotor, has disclosed that, about one-third of residents in Accra live in slums and as a result do not enjoy adequate social services.

A new report published by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that nearly one in every three households in Ghana lives in a slum or informal settlement.

A whopping 300 slum settlements in different stages of development have been identified in Accra, a recent study conducted by Peoples Dialogue (PD) Ghana has revealed. The areas included; Agbogbloshie ...

Nana Akomea, former Communications Director of the NPP has bemoaned the lack of enforcement of building codes in the city, a situation he said promotes the growth of slums.

Police have used tear gas on residents demonstrating against the demolition of their slum in Ghana's capital Accra. Thousands were protesting in the slum popularly known as Sodom and Gomorrah.

The clashes came after Accra's mayor, Alfred Vanderpuije, ordered bulldozers into the slum on Saturday following devastating flooding that hit the city earlier this month. Ghana's President John ...

Preview: Old Fadama's famous Agbogbloshie electronic waste "dump" is where people break apart the world's e-waste and burn the parts down to salvageable metals.