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Maxwell Suuk

Maxwell is a DW multimedia reporter interested in environmental topics and technology.

As a DW radio and TV reporter based in Tamale, Northern Ghana, Maxwell contributes to various shows, including Africalink, news and current affairs, and Eco@Africa.

His areas of expertise include nature conservancy, farming, animal welfare, and issues concerning Indigenous peoples. 

 

Skip next section Featured stories by Maxwell Suuk

Featured stories by Maxwell Suuk

Ghana therapist teaching a child with special needs

Ghana: Teaching parents to support special needs children

In Ghana, neurodivergent children are sometimes seen as "cursed" and neglected or abandoned.
HealthSeptember 16, 202401:37 min
Community worker Abagna Patience sits outside and talks

Ghana: Women's network fights tradition of domestic violence

Network in Ghana's north helps counter the traditional beliefs and barriers that stop women leaving violent marriages.
SocietyDecember 21, 202302:31 min
DW Still Beitrag Ghana: Making school kits from plastic trash

Ghana: Making school kits from plastic trash

In Northern Ghana, a social enterprise provides school kits and raincoats made from plastic waste.
Nature and EnvironmentSeptember 20, 202301:17 min
Skip next section Stories by Maxwell Suuk

Stories by Maxwell Suuk

A man builds an inverter for alternative current pumps for solar power irrigation in a laboratory in Ghana.

Brain drain in Ghana — incentivizing people to stay

Brain drain in Ghana — incentivizing people to stay

Ghana is striving to keep its sustainability specialists and create jobs with competitive salaries.
EducationOctober 11, 202405:34 min
A small group of grown-ups and children hold a bowl with a few grains of pearl millet in their hands, in Ghana.

Pearl millet — making a great grain even better

Pearl millet — making a great grain even better

Pearl millet is nutritious and climate-resilient — a sustainable food security crop. How can its potential be maximized?
Food SecuritySeptember 17, 202406:01 min
Simbabwe Dürre

Ghana farmers face worst drought in decades

Ghana farmers face worst drought in decades

Eight regions of northern Ghana have been hit by the worst drought in 40 years.
SocietySeptember 3, 202402:21 min
Videostill | Bizung School of Music and Dance in Tamale

Ghana's Tamale arts school saves traditional music and dance

Ghana's Tamale arts school saves traditional music and dance

A school in Tamale, northern Ghana, teaches youth traditional music and dance as a way to preserve African culture.
MusicAugust 21, 202401:27 min
An electric tuktuk drives down the street

Chinese tricycles — made green in Ghana

Chinese tricycles — made green in Ghana

Innovative engineering students in Ghana turn Chinese-made gasoline tricycles into eco-friendly electric vehicles. 
TechnologyAugust 15, 202401:37 min
An old man holding spiritual items in his hands while calling for rain in an indigenous community in Ghana.

Ghana Disaster Youth Brigades aid Indigenous communities

Ghana Disaster Youth Brigades aid Indigenous communities

Youth Brigades work with communities on practices they can adopt to address climate change.
ClimateJuly 15, 202405:20 min
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