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Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands Nature-based solutions (NBS) provide a promising means to a climate resilient future. To guide investments in NBS, stated preference studies have become a common tool to evaluate the benefits of NBS in developing countries. Due to subsistence lifestyles and generally lower incomes, SP studies in developing countries increasingly use time payments as an alternative to the traditionally implemented money payment...

Ghana loses US$6.3bn annually to land degradation Illegal sand-winning in Ghana’s water-bodies is on the rise at the beaches, with the current situation escalating along the banks of the Volta River. Some towns along the river, particularly Bator, Asutsuare, Akuse Dam, Dodi Island and Mepe Adzigo, have been experiencing the most negative impacts of this menace in relation to environmental degradation – including the destruction of roads due to regular transportation activities of tipper-tru...

耶鲁大学人类学家Eric Sargis在《林奈学会动物学杂志》上与人合著的一项新研究发现，树蹄兔是一个独立的物种，与它们的尖叫邻居不同。新描述的物种，Dendrohyrax interfluvialis在加纳东南部、多哥和贝宁南部以及尼日利亚西南部沿海地区的两条河流之间的湿润和干燥森林中栖息。 研究人员根据其独特的叫声，结合解剖学和遗传学上的差异，得出了他们在树蹄兔种群中的结论。 �...

6,000km of tarred roads ready this year; Amoako-Atta Pokuase Interchange Mr Kwesi Amoako-Atta, the Minister of Roads and Highways, says  6,000kilometers (km) out of 11,000km of roads are to be completed under government’s second year of roads programme. Addressing a news conference in Accra yesterday, the minister said the 6,000km of roads to be completed falls under critical cocoa, town roads and asphalt overlays under the Sinohydro Master Project Support Facility. The roads to be completed...

President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank, and Thomas Östros, Vice President, today formally agreed to EUR 170 million EIB backing for the new National Development Bank of Ghana. The EIB backing represents the largest ever engagement in Ghana by the world’s largest international public bank and most significant support for a national development institution in Africa. Once operational in the coming weeks the National Development Bank of ...

The Unregulated River Sand Mining at Battor Can Pose Geological Challenges for the Community and Its Neighbours If Not Checked MAY 10, 2021 The picture above depicts the sandy principal streets of Battor around the post office. This unfortunate situation is due to the daily transportation of river sand from Battor. If the Battor town itself is like this, then one can imagine the damage to river banks where the sand mining is being done unabatedly. Battor is of one the 13 traditional areas in T...

Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features the coastal region of Ghana, West Africa. The photograph includes the Volta River Delta, the Keta Lagoon, and the Gulf of Guinea.  Ghana has a tropical climate with mangrove forests and approximately 90 lagoons that support commercial fishing and help sustain local communities. The Volta River is one of multiple vast river systems that flow across Ghana. According to ESA, these rivers support the farms that sustain the country’...

19 Nigerians arrested at Akuse by joint police force for trying to sneak into Ghana Yen 19 hrs ago - The were headed to Madina from Aflao when they were arrested - This comes after 9 jail breakers were arrested in Ada for trying to enter the country © getty Ghana police officers Another group of Nigerians have been arrested in the by a joint team of police, military and immigration service personnel at Akuse in the Eastern Region. The 19 Nigerians were arrested the at Akuse on board a VW C...

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nine inmates reported to have broken out of jail in Nigeria have been arrested on their way to Ghana. According to MyNewsGH.com, the Ada district police command stated that the force got a tip-off that some Nigerians “believed to be fugitive jailbreakers” were crossing the Volta River into Ada Foah. Police disclosed […]

❚ You already voted!   No fewer than nine fleeing inmates from Nigeria Correctional Centre have been re-arrested in Ghana, IgbereTV has learned.. According to ICIR Nigeria, the inmates were arrested by the Ada District Police Command in the Greater Accra Region and were suspected to be part of over 1,800 inmates that escaped from the Imo State Correctional earlier this month.   The Police said the fleeing inmates were monitored following credible intelligence that they were about t...