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Ghana dispatch: more street demonstrations reflect growing discontent with government

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Ghana dispatch: more street demonstrations reflect growing discontent with government

Lana Osei | JURIST Staff, GH

October 5, 2023 02:30:19 pm

Lana Osei is a JURIST staff correspondent in Ghana and a recent graduate of the GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. On Tuesday, October 3, Accra, Ghana’s capital and a city of well over two million people, bore witness to two impactful protests. The [...]

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