Ghana
Ghana: Parties sign WASH manifesto
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and the Convention People’s Party (CPP) have separately signed the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) WASH...
Ghana: WASH in Budget Planning
The Ghanian Coalition of NGOs in the Water and Sanitation Sector (CONIWAS) has urged all political parties to incorporate Water, Sanitation and Hygene (WASH) policies in their budget planning and to a...
Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining
The west African state, led by Nana Akufo-Addo, a human rights lawyer, has long been seen as a beacon of democracy. However, activists and rights groups say civil freedoms are being eroded by authorit...
Ghana: Let’s end open defecation
Ghana’s Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), Mrs Lydia Seyram Alhassan, has urged Ghanaians to put an end to open defecation, as part of efforts to combat the recent cholera outbr...
There’s Mining, Then There’s Galamsey
60% of Ghana’s fresh water sources are contaminated by toxins and chemicals from illegal gold mining, Ambassador Mark A. Green, President & CEO, writes in Wilson Center’s Stubborn Things: Fo...
Ghana: Earth’s surface could sink
Prof. Kwasi Appeaning Addo, a coastal and marine processes expert at the University of Ghana, has issued a strong caution against the rapid increase in underground water extraction and sand winning ac...
‘We are poisoning ourselves’
Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured that an artist was able to use it as paint to depict the environmental devastation caused by the illegal gold mining that has spread l...
Ghana: Thousands out for protest
The Bishops of the Accra Archdiocese, alongside thousands of Catholic parishioners, organized an ‘Environmental Prayer Walk’ in the Ghanaian capital to protest the destructive effects of illegal minin...
Ghana: Stop poisoning our water!
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and nine other rights organisations – among them the Nigerian Blue Community NEWARI, the Network of Water Rights Initiatives R...
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