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A Water and Sanitation Needs Assessment for Kumasi, Ghana
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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Open defecation & Sanitation.read more
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One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: a multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali: extended editors cut
Baz Lecocq,Gregory Mann,Bruce Whitehouse,Dida Badi,Lotte Pelckmans,Nadia Belalimat,Bruce S. Hall,Wolfram Lacher +7 more
TL;DR: In 2012, the political landscape in the Republic of Mali transformed rapidly, drastically, and unpredictably The formation of a new Tuareg political movement (the National Movement of Azawad) in October 2010 and the return to Mali of Tuaregs with military experience from the Libyan conflict in August 2011, bringing along heavy weapons and logistical supplies made speculation on renewed violence on the part of separatist Tuarege inevitable Indeed, TuareG separatists launched attacks on Malian garrisons in the Sahara in January 2012 Mali had experienced such rebellions before What nobody foresaw was that this renewed
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Kumasi: Towards a sustainable and resilient cityscape
TL;DR: Kumasi is the administrative capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana and the second largest city in Ghana as discussed by the authors, and it was given the accolade the ‘Garden City of West Africa’ in the 1940s due to its greenery cityscape.
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Impact of urban land cover change on the garden city status and land surface temperature of Kumasi
Caleb Mensah,Julia Atayi,Amos T. Kabo-Bah,Marian Švik,Daniel Acheampong,Richard Kyere-Boateng,Nana Agyemang Prempeh,Michal V. Marek +7 more
TL;DR: The conversion of many natural green surfaces within cities to non-transpiring built-up surfaces, such as concrete and asphalt, has been studied in this article, where the authors show that these artifici...
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An analysis of the costs and quality of infrastructure facilities in informal settlements in Kumasi, Ghana
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the costs and quality of water and sanitation infrastructure delivery in relation to the socioeconomic conditions of residents in Kumasi, Ghana, and found a paradox where residents of deprived informal settlements pay higher fees for the use of low-quality privately-owned outdoor commercial water and sanitary facilities.
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Do African cities have markets for plastics or plastics for markets
TL;DR: We live in the "plastic age" as discussed by the authors, where the human environment is now characterized by a set of types of materials, such as plastic, polyethylene, polypropylene, and styroethylene.