Ashanti

Regional breakdown, Greater Accra Region is leading with nine cases out of the 44.

Ashanti Region, where this incident happened, the Obuasi SHTS incident, is second with seven cases.

Western Region six, Eastern Region six cases, Central Region coming in, uh, with five cases, and Savannah three cases, Upper West two cases, Volta Region two cases, and you have one case for each of the remaining regions.

And lastly, uh, in terms of the nature of the cases we've looked at, defilement is 17 out of the 44 cases.

Let's bring you some health-related stories this evening because the 500-bed mother and baby unit designed to save the lives of mothers and babies is gathering dust at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi as contractors have yet again suspended construction for 14 months over unpaid arrears.

Despite millions of dollars invested, the facility remains incomplete with some procured materials now deteriorating and warranties expiring.

Parliamentary Committee on Health is raising concerns over the prolonged delay, warning against the waste of taxpayers' monies as expectant mothers wait for a facility intended to transform maternal and child healthcare in the Ashanti region and beyond.

Emmanuel Bright-Kweku has more.

This is Ruth Kamau and welcome to Wasafiri Africa, where we celebrate Africa and things African.

[upbeat music] Kumasi, also referred to as the Garden City of West Africa, is the second-largest city in Ghana and the commercial capital of the historical Ashanti Empire.

Founded by King Osei Tutu I, Kumasi is also the official residence of the Asantehene, the King of the Ashanti, and is the home of the Golden Stool, known to be the ultimate sacred symbol of the Ashanti people, symbolizing their unity and royalty.

As a destination, Kumasi is revered by locals and remains an attractive tourist destination.

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[upbeat music] With lineage including a grandfather as paramount chief among the Ashanti people in Ghana and a Seychellois grandmother, Osei Kofi's origin story is a beautiful tapestry.

Growing up surrounded by the alluring attraction of palace crafts and proximity to African artistry, it's perhaps not surprising that Osei has been a collector of art since childhood.

Obviously, global food systems and how that's impacting Ghanaian food cultures, also a stripping away of our, like, traditional food ethos.

So a good example is that in my tribe, the Ashanti, we have a lake that people holds, like, spiritual significance to.

Because of that, they have strict rules on how much you can fish from this lake-

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But it's those things are the ways in which you see the connection between food and culture, and it's different depending on where you are in Ghana.

Obviously, southern Ghana, we share a similar geography.

So this palm tree in the Ashanti, it holds significance for the Ewe people who are in a different ethnic group.

But when you go to the north of Ghana, you start to see where millet and sorghum and, um, legumes, they start to play those roles that you will see in southern Ghana.

In contrast to the Northeast, the Greater Accra and Upper West Region experienced relief, recording food price drop of zero-point nine percent and one-point eight percent respectively.

Over a broader one-year review, the Upper East Region registered the highest annual increase in food prices at ten-point three percent, closely followed by Ashanti Region at ten-point two percent.

The Ashanti Region also led the country in overall annual inflation at nine-point eight percent.

While localized spike continue to stretch household budget in part of northern Ghana, regional variances in food costs highlight a mixed economic landscape.

Economists and policymakers continue to monitor these trends closely as national inflation fluctuates heading into the final quarter of the year.

Though Bismarck fell from power early in 1890, his successor Caprivi continued the bargaining and concluded on July 1, 1890, the famous Heligoland Treaty, whereby Germany obtained Heligoland and, in exchange, gave up all claim to Uganda, thus nullifying the exploit of Peters.

Zanzibar and Pemba Islands, Vitu, a district on the British East African coast hitherto claimed by Germans, Nyasaland, a region which Peters had coveted as a southwestward extension of German East Africa, and some disputed territories in Western Africa on the border between Togoland, German, and Ashanti, British.

The treaty has been described as a one-sided bargain, giving England a whole suit of clothes in exchange for a trouser button.

But Heligoland was more than a button.

As affiliation.

Ashanti schools competition.

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So if the person is working with such an office, he is an affiliate of the NSC.

Individual women might sometimes, and even often, become the warriors or chiefs of tribes.

The King of Ashanti might train his terrible regiment of females, and men might now and again plant and weave for their children.

But in the main, and in most societies, the division of labor was just, natural, beneficial, and it was inevitable that such a division should take place.

Were today a band of civilized men, women, and infants thrown down absolutely naked and defenseless in some desert, and cut off hopelessly from all external civilized life, undoubtedly very much the old division of labor would, at least for a time, reassert itself.

Regional performances across Ghana show significant variation in price movement.

The Ashanti region registered the highest annual inflation rate in the country at nine point eight percent, while the Western region recorded a negative inflation rate of negative zero point five percent, indicating that average prices there were slightly lower than in September twenty twenty-five.

Overall, four regions posted inflation rate higher than the national benchmark of five point two percent.

Despite the month-on-month increase, Ghana's inflation trajectory remains significantly lower than the nine point four percent recorded during the same period last year.

But the highlight is the textile section.

This is where I finally understand the difference between Ewe kente and the Ashanti cloth I saw in Kumasi years ago.

The Ashanti kente is woven in long strips, bright and geometric.

The Ewe version, particularly from Agatangka Pito, is figural.

It tells stories through the threads.