An analysis of climate finance flows in Ghana shows that an annual average of USD 830 million was tracked in 2019 and 2020. This is a meagre 5-9% of its required investment — estimated between USD 9.3-15.5 billion — highlighting the pressing need to bolster climate finance to achieve Ghana’s …
Madam Barbara Serwaa Asamoah, the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has sworn in two sub-committee to man the activities of small scale mining. Each of the committees have five members for the Birim South District and the Birim Central Municipality. The committees members are made up of chiefs, …
WASHINGTON – The World Bank’s Board of Directors today approved a record investment of $700 million in guarantees for Ghana’s Sankofa Gas Project - a transformational project that will help address the country’s serious energy shortages by developing new sources of clean and affordable natural gas for domestic power generation. …
The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV), an international non-governmental organization, has launched a new solar systems, Photo Voltaid (PV) to help industries in Ghana. The new PV systems would depend on four carport (car park) rooftop panel to generate eight-kilowatt solar power to the national grid. Its net meter allows netting …
Accra — More than 7 500 Ghanaian children die as a result of unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation every year, it has emerged. The toll is the highest in the continent and seventh-worst in the world. According to a joint report by both the World Health Organisation (WHO) and …
The Cape Coast Metropolis has been overwhelmed with mountains of garbage. The piles of garbage have been left on the streets competing for space in the already choked central business district. Residents have expressed shock about the development which they fear can lead to a cholera epidemic. At the central …
Ghana has slipped further on its sanitation performance globally to become the World’s 7th worst performing country, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The Joint Monitoring Programme report, “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment,” a collaborative effort between the World Health Organisation (WHO) …
Teachers and students of the Madina Estate Cluster of Schools are finding innovative ways to attend nature's call due to the lack of toilet facilities in the school. About 300 students and teachers according to reports, have to travel long distances or use the bushes near them to ease themselves. …
The Student Youth and Travel Organisation (SYTO), an NGO over the weekend launched a programme christened: ‘Mandela Forest project’ in the Juaso Community of the Eastern Region. The project is aimed at establishing a multipurpose forest and the restoration of the natural resources of the community. The project also sought …
The Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) has begun an orientation programme for its volunteers to build their capacity to educate Ghanaians on the threat of the Ebola virus and cholera in the Western Region. Addressing a stakeholders’ forum in Takoradi, over the weekend, Mr. Kofi Addo, Secretary-General of the GRCS, …
A Scottish power producing firm, Aggreko plc, has secured a provisional license from the Energy Commission to develop a power plant at Esiama, in the Ellembelle District to produce initial power between 40 and 50 megawatts of power, and increase production to over 100MW in the subsequent years. The company …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has halted the mining-related activities of African Queen Ghana Gold Company (AQ Ghana Gold) in Apragya in the Ashanti Region for lack of a mining lease. The EPA said the company only had a permit for prospecting but had set up a processing site for …
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) College of Engineering is working on a collaborative multi-disciplinary research to come out with effective ways in dealing with environmental pollution. The project is being carried out under the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Programme (CADFP), a scholar fellowship programme for educational …
Mr. Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has hinted that Parliament would soon pass the National Sanitation Bill into Law. He said the Bill when passed into Law, would make it compulsory to punish offenders who refused to participate in the National Sanitation Day …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched a € 5.9 million Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project on the theme “Improving sanitation access in urban Ghana” at Ashaiman near, Accra. The project, sponsored by the Netherlands Government, under the Ghana-Netherlands Water programme, aims at curbing open defecation by building …
Government is to receive a 498.2 million Dollar grant under the Millennium Challenge Compact 2. The grant is to support Ghana transform the power sector to meet the power needs of industries and households across the country. Ghana has been battling with power challenges for some time now – a …
A scientist at the Yam and Cotton Breeding Programme of the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Dr Emmanuel Chamba, has confirmed that Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton trials in the three northern regions of the country have yielded positive results. “What we did was that we had a quarter hectare Bt …
Life in the Brong-Ahafo Region can now be described as very dangerous for inhabitants, because their major source of drinking water, the Tano River, is under serious attack by activities of illegal miners. The Tano River, which serves as the only source of water which is treated by Ghana Water …
Bulldozers razed hundreds of homes and businesses in the poor Sodom and Gomorrah neighborhood of Ghana's capital on Saturday so the authorities can start widening a lagoon to prevent a repeat of this month's deadly floods. Some residents said security forces sprayed them with tear gas after they threw stones …
Ghana has received an award from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for reducing the number of undernourished people from more than seven million in the early 1990s to less than a million now. The country was also adjudged as one of 12 among 72 that have maintained their hunger …
Accra — Despite protests from civil society, the Ghanaian Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) have given the nod for the commencement of Ebola vaccine trial in the country. The regulatory body in an official release signed by its chief executive, Hudu Mogtari communicated its decision to approve the trial of …
