Ghana: Suhum Gov't Hospital Faces Infrastructural Problems - Very few words can really describe the state of the Suhum Government Hospital, which serves over 188,000 residents within the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District in the Eastern Region, as the state of its infrastructure is heartbreaking to see of a place where people go to access quality healthcare. P> The hospital, which started as a health centre in 1958, and was upgraded to a district hospital a year later, has still not seen any infrastructural transformation, even though there has been tremendous management and administrative transformation. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Krofofrom Market Project Takes Off - THE reconstruction of the New Tafo (Krofofrom) Market by the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, in conjunction with the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), into a modern market, has taken off in earnest, after an initial delay. [AA Construction]

Ghana: Nadowli District Assembly Interacts With Stakeholders in Construction Industry - The Nadowli District Assembly has initiated an interactive forum with stakeholders in the construction industry and other development partners aimed to address the challenges confronting the development of the district. [AA Construction]

Ghana: Tenants Along Principal Streets of T'di Being Ejected - SOME tenants in Takoradi, whose rented apartments are located along the principal streets of the oil city, are going through enduring and harrowing moments of ejections. [AA Construction]

Ghana: Chief Halts Health Project - Nana Osei Boakye Yiadom II, chief of Adamorobe in the Akuapim Anafo Traditional Area, has been accused of thwarting the development of the town after securing an injunction against the construction of a clinic by the Queen mother, Nana Afua Asantewaa I. [AA Construction]

Ghana: Sodom & Gomorrah Eviction On Course - The brouhaha surrounding the eviction and demolition of the popular slum, Sodom and Gomorrah, has taken a new twist, with the relocation of the Agboloshie food hub, lorry station in the area. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Noise Levels in Accra On the Increase - The capital city is gradually becoming the hub of noise in country, with an ever-increasing level, with the latest trend of noise-making being created by sellers of audio and video compact discs and cassette tapes. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Public Building Plans to Be Disabled Friendly - The Ho Municipal Assembly would no longer approve building plans of public institutions including schools which lacked facilities for disabled people. [AA Construction]

Ghana: Construction Workers Run Amok - CASUAL EMPLOYEES working on the construction of the Sofoline Interchange yesterday went on rampage, putting the management of the Chinese construction firm under siege, and burnt car tyres in protest against what they described as poor working conditions, and harsh treatment being meted out to them by their employers. [AA Construction]

Ghana: Minister Intervenes in Protest By Kobriso Residents - THE MINISTER of Environment, Science and Technology, Ms. Sherry Ayittey, has intervened in the impasse between residents of Kobriso community near Ejisu, and the Municipal Assembly, over the release of a parcel of land by the late Ejisuhene, Nana Aboagye Agyei II, to one Dr Alex Osei to put up a mortuary at the source of the Kobri stream, which supplies their drinking water. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Mobile Phone Masts Are Dangerous - the Plain Truth - The skyline of Accra and other major cities in Ghana is dominated by telecommunication masts of various sizes and colours. Some have red warning lights while a few others flash daylight beams at night. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Kaneshie Bridge Open After Reconstruction - The Kaneshie Bridge, after being closed for repair work some weeks ago, has now been opened for the use of the general public, and seems to have been abandoned by pedestrians, as they prefer to use the other footbridge. [AA Construction]

Ghana: Addressing the Problems of Slums - the Case of Tema (part Two) - A major component of UN-HABITAT's strategic vision is to mobilise domestic investment resources for the financing of cities and shelter. Hence as part of UN-Habitat's effort to attain the Millennium Development Goal 7, Target 11 (to improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2020), the Slum Upgrading Facility (SUF) was set up in 2004. The facility seeks to provide technical assistance and facilitate access to domestic capital by its clients for financing slum upgrading projects. Even though slum dwellers supposedly lack financial or material resources, evidence suggests that the general application of this notion is flawed. Opportunities for tapping the resources of slum dwellers largely have remained untapped. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Addressing the Problems of Slums - the Case of Tema (1) - Due to the increasing rate of urbanisation, especially in developing countries, illegal structures as a form of shelter are common place. In their quest to have a source of shelter, these unplanned and illegal structures tend to increase and thus lead to the springing up of slums. In the past months, a number of articles and letters have been published in the newspapers on the subject of slums and their associated challenges posed to proper planning, particularly in Tema. The authors have expressed abhorrence for the persistence of these conditions in what should have been a model of a planned city. Indeed, Architect S.Y. Akoto's account "Tema and its broken promises" places Tema's slum challenge in its appropriate historical context, recounting the underlying intentions of the planners of Tema. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Severe Environmental Pollution in Accra - A tour around the Korle Lagoon, specifically an area called 'Lavender Hill' revealed that most of the city's liquid waste is discharged into the sea in that area, and poses a severe environmental and health threat to inhabitants of the area. [AA Urbanisation]