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Buduburam is a refugee camp located 44 kilometers (27 mi) west of Accra, Ghana.It is along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. [1] Opened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1990, the camp is home to more than 12,000 refugees from Liberia who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) and the Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003). [2]
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Postal codes were adopted in Ghana on 18 October 2017, following the launch of the National Digital Address System. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As a joint venture between Ghana Post (with support from the Government of Ghana]) and Vokacom Ltd as GhanaPost GPS , the Digital Address System assigned postal codes and unique addresses to every square in Ghana.
Rank Metropolitan Area Population (2013) Census Region 1: Accra: 2,291,352: Greater Accra: 2: Kumasi: 2,069,350: Ashanti: 3: Tamale: 562,919: Northern region: 4 ...
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
The Budumburam Camp in the Central Region of Ghana is home to over 11,000 Liberian refugees. These refugees have lived in the camp for over two decades since they fled the civil war in that country. [5] In 2008, about 500 Liberian refugees in the camp embarked on an "indefinite sit-down strike". This was to draw attention to the perceived ...
Gomoa East Metropolitan Assembly is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana. [2] [3] [4] Originally it was part of the then-larger Gomoa District in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create the first Gomoa East District, with Gomoa Afransi as its capital town, on 29 February 2008 (which was later split off into two new districts on 15 March 2018 ...
Ghana has experienced rapid population growth in the past three decades. [1] The population growth directly affects Kasoa, and other peri-urban areas. [1] Kasoa is reported to be one of the fastest-growing communities in West Africa. [9] This growth is revealed by an examination and comparison of Kasoa's population in 1970, 1984, 2000, and 2010.