River Volta News Today

Communities along the bank of the dam have been victims of injustice since the early 1960s.

The Keta Municipal Security Council has put a temporary ban on fishing activities in the area. This directive is a result of the high water...

The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Freda Prempeh has said the victims of the Akosombo Dam spillage should take some of the blame for the devastation. | Pulse Ghana

Ghana is currently facing a mini-crisis following the spillage of the Akosombo Dam, which has destroyed properties and rendered many homeless. | Pulse Ghana

Yvette Yaa Konadu Tetteh’s epic swim down the River Volta highlights the damage done to the country’s waterways by an out-of-control trade in secondhand

Yvette Yaa Konadu Tetteh’s epic swim down the River Volta highlights the damage done to the country’s waterways by an out-of-control trade in secondhand clothes from the global north, and why it’s time for change

Yvette Tetteh made history after she became the first person to swim across the Volta River. She did it to raise awareness on the contamination of water bodies.

Weighing in at 2.5 tonnes in a white-and-orange coloured beauty, and powered by twin 60HP engines, the Trident is a cruise boat named after an island of the same name.

Instead of learning from past African failings, South Africa seems to take pride in them, writes Pali Lehohla

Introduction. Ghana has one of the longest coastlines in West Africa, 550 km (360 miles) of which most of the coast is sandy or soft rock like clay and limestone with only few sections being rocky.  This geomorphological formation along the coast combined with human activities, global warming, climate change,…