By Kent Mensah in Accra

 

ACCRA, 13 January. - (ANA) - Accra’s vanishing green spaces are turning Ghana’s capital into a concrete jungle, fuelling floods, pollution and a quieter crisis of mental health.

 

Accra reveals itself first through movement. Taxis inch past ‘trotro’ buses, hawkers dart between lanes, and the Atlantic breeze struggles to cut through exhaust fumes. Home to roughly six million people, Ghana’s capital has long been a city of contrasts – ocean and asphalt, tradition and ambition. But in recent years, one balance has tipped decisively: nature is losing.

 

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