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Anita Akpeere, who uses her mobile phone to run her business, prepares food at her restaurant in Accra, Ghana. While preparing the food in Ghana's capital a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone. ‘I don’t think I could work without a phone in my line of business,’ she said, as requests came in for her signature dish, a traditional fermented dumpling. — AP

ACCRA: Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana's capital as a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone.

“I don’t think I could work without a phone in my line of business,” she said, as requests came in for her signature dish, a traditional fermented dumpling.