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The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources in collaboration with Aqua Africa, a United-Kingdom business focused on water access solutions in challenging environments, has announced the confirmation of the 12 small towns selected for the Rural Communities and Small Towns Water Supply Project (RCSTWSP).

In the prevention and management of climate risks, women, the youth, and vulnerable people who formed the majority of the population are either less represented or not involved at all in the various decision making bodies. Such a situation, which stems basically from some socio-cultural practices and rules, had generated…

Spillage of water from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso has commenced. With it has come a lot of hardship on residents in the Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions who have had major roads, farmlands and property inundated by the floodwaters.

Ghana, Togo resolve land boundary dispute Major General Dr Emmanuel Kotia with Douti Lardja during engagement Ghana and Togo have resolved a long-standing land boundary dispute between the two countries at the Pulmakom border in the Pusiga District in the Upper East Region. The resolution was based on an agreement that per the legal and national demarcation documents of 1927, the Kolpelig River, a tributary of the White Volta, was the official boundary separating the two countries. This...

  The Ghana Boundary Commission and the Togo Lands Commission, through dialogue, have been able to resolve the long-standing boundary dispute with reference to the Pulmakom border in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region. The stakeholders at the dialogue, which took place at Cinkasse in Togo, agreed that per the legal and national demarcation documents prepared in the 1920s, the Kolpelig River was the official boundary separating the two countries. Major General Dr Emmanuel Kotia, the...

  Emmanuel Dankwa Osafo, the Deputy Chief Executive in charge of Engineering and Operations of the Volta River Authority (VRA), says actual construction work on the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam and Irrigation project would start this year. He said they had spent some time in designs, data collection and surveys, among others and would be liaising with other state agencies to discuss the resettlement of people presently occupying the area that would be covered by the reservoir. “On paper we have...

Achievements Of NADMO Under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s Government

Work on the Daboya Bridge, spanning the White Volta, is expected to begin this year. The bridge is a critical link in the commercial and everyday life of people in the north eastern parts of the country. It is designed to serve as an alternative route for travellers from the north to the south, and from the Savannah Region to the Upper West Region. Congress The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, gave an assurance at Bole in the Savannah Region last Saturday at the 45th Annual Congress of the ...

Work On Daboya Bridge To Commence This Year - Bawumia

  Message On The State Of The Nation By The President Of The Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, On Tuesday, 9th March 2021, At Parliament House, Accra. Mr. Speaker, It is always good to be back in Parliament, and to discharge the duty, in accordance with Article 67 of the Constitution, of delivering to the House a Message on the State of the Nation. I am particularly delighted as this Message is the first of my 2nd term, the validity of which was unanimously upheld last week in a well-reas...