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Banks will continue to operate like that, and we all know h- what happened.

Some people have been convicted and jailed, and all of that for the banking sector cleanup.

How, you know, favoritism is there in terms of who to give loans to and all of that.

Now, you know it is 10%.

Mm.

Number one, um, the reserve position of the central bank, how much it has in its reserves, because, um, the amount it has in terms of reserves will tell us how much it can actually, um, support the market with.

Um, the second thing we should also look at is, um, the, um, current developments in the Middle East because any height and any, um, um, um, any, um...

How do I say it? Any heightened risks in terms of, you know, um, the, the escalation of what is currently there would then mean that, um, prices of crude oil would go up.

Dream home starts with the right ideas.

Get ready for the next Habitat Fair Mini Clinic in Ho this Friday and the weekend.

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very very worried when a technical person keeps coming saying such things but tells you need your luck off well now we accept the defeats in good faith clearly at the start of the game we couldn't get what we wanted especially we wanted to feel back have a lot of pressure playing in the middle and then creates a lot of overload in the attack unfortunately for us put away perfectly the way one playing behind our back line where they were able to take that penalty actually attacking there was one more from the defender behind our backing and it just went so we need to recognize

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The air is thick with dust from the unpaved edges and the sharp tang of dried fish.

I am standing at the entrance of Ho Central Market on a Tuesday morning, day eight in Ho, and my ears are already ringing.

This is not a tourist stall.

This is where the town buys its rice, its tomatoes, its soap, and its secondhand shoes.

I need to buy milk.

The liter costs around GHS38, which is roughly three dollars for those of you tracking the exchange rate.

Inflation is high nationally, but prices in Ho feel slightly more manageable than Accra.

I find a small shop near the back, the kind with metal shelves and plastic basins.

It was a light drizzle all morning, just enough to keep the air thick and green without soaking through your clothes.

I am sitting in Urban Bites Café, right in the center of Ho, watching the water drip off the awning onto the pavement.

The humidity hits you first here.

It is not a gentle greeting.

I ordered a cappuccino, which cost about GHS forty-seven.

That is roughly four US dollars back home, but here it feels like a small luxury for the quiet moment before the day really starts.

[coffee machine whirring] I have been in Ho for seven days now.

Seven days of settling into this flat in Ho Dome, sorting out my Ghana Card registration, and trying to understand the rhythm of the Volta region.

drumming starts before you see the chiefs it is a low rhythmic throne that vibrates in your chest felt more than heard rolling across jubilee park like a tide coming in i am standing near the back of the crowd the humidity pressing against my skin that familiar heavy warmth of late september in the volta hills the air smells of wet earth and roasted corn today is october 3rd the day has arrived I've been waiting for this moment since I crossed the Adomi Bridge from Akasambo two days ago.

The drive up the Ho Road was straightforward, though the traffic through Dzads is a different story entirely.

There are big push road opening works happening right now, clearing structures on the road reservation.

I watched a fence come down yesterday, just a few hundred yards from where I parked.

For now, you navigate around the dust and the cones.

This is the Grand Durbar, the climax of the Asagli Yam Festival, or Taizaw as we say it locally.

The harvest season is opening, and the streets of Ho are alive with color.

I walked here from my flat in Ho Dome, past the Della Cathedral, through the humid morning air.

The humidity hits you first in Ho.

It is not a gentle greeting.

It presses against your skin like a warm, wet cloth.

I stepped out of my flat in Ho-dong this morning and immediately regretted wearing anything heavier than cotton.

The air was still, thick with the promise of rain that had just barely stopped falling.

September closes the rainy season here in the Volta Hills, but the ground remembers.

I started at the Volta Regional Museum.

It sits on Glala Street.