# Ghana News Monitor (ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app)

> Ghana News Monitor is a calm, source-respectful public-information monitor for balanced Ghanaian news coverage, official government notices, civic institutions, 16 administrative regions, and original-publisher referrals.

## Core Founding Doctrine & Architecture
- **Civic Mission:** Provides a top-to-bottom, unified timeline of Ghanaian developments across politics, business, sports, technology, and governance.
- **Zero Content Scraping / Anti-Theft Policy:** We do not steal content. We strip aggressive advertising noise and invasive trackers to present balanced story clusters, then route reader traffic and attention back to original reporting publishers and direct public institutions.
- **Durable Snapshots:** Public page views serve durable prepared snapshots via edge caching. Feed refreshes are coordinated via bounded background schedules (cron-job.org and GitHub Actions).
- **Zero Surveillance:** No reader tracking cookies, no device fingerprinting, no behavioral profiling, and no paywalls.
- **Language & Region:** English (`en-GH`), covering Ghana and the global Ghanaian diaspora.

## Key Sections & Primary URLs
- **Homepage (Ghana Now):** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/
- **How It Works (Methodology):** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/how-it-works
- **Trust & Editorial Standards:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/trust
- **Verified Sources & Health:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/news-sources
- **Official Government Notices:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/official-notices
- **Ministries Directory:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/ministries
- **Civic Institutions Directory:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/institutions
- **All 16 Administrative Regions:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/regions

## Topic Channels
- **Politics & Governance:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/news/politics
- **Business & Economy:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/news/business
- **Sports & Athletics:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/news/sports
- **Parliament Coverage:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/topic/parliament
- **Elections & Civic Democracy:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/topic/elections
- **Health Coverage:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/topic/health
- **Technology & Innovation:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/topic/technology

## Feeds & Machine Readability
- **RSS 2.0 Feed:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/rss.xml
- **XML Sitemap:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/sitemap.xml
- **Robots Directives:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/robots.txt
- **LLM Context:** https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/llms.txt

## Editorial & Governance Principles
- **Separation of Church and State:** Sponsorships and editorial rankings are kept strictly separate. Sponsored placement never influences story clustering or provenance.
- **Corrections Contact:** Corrections, editorial feedback, and source verification inquiries can be directed to `gh.newsmonitor@gmail.com` or via https://ghnewsmonitor.vercel.app/corrections.