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2023 Akosombo dam spillage flood. The Akosombo Dam Spillage Flood is a riverine flood that occurred in the south-eastern part of Ghana. [1] [2] This is due to a controlled spillage of the Akosombo Dam and the Kpong Dam by the Volta River Authority to address rising water levels. [3]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first two cases in Ghana were confirmed on 12 March 2020, when two infected people came to Ghana, one from Norway and the other from Turkey .
v. t. e. General elections will be held in Ghana on 7 December 2024 to elect the president and members of Parliament. [1] [2] Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo is term-limited and thus ineligible to run again.
List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
The Ghana Women's Premier League was set to begin in January 2021 after the government placed a ban on all football related activities in March 2020 due to COVID-19. Following the lifting of the ban on football Government with the GFA begun the COVID-19 testing of players and club members of Ghana Premier league clubs on 22 October.
26 February – 2021 Asafo-Akyem bus crash. 20 May - 2021 Ghana gay arrests. 11 June – During the 2021 United Nations Security Council Elections, Ghana was elected to serve a two-year term on the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member. Its term, starting in 2022, will mark the fourth time Ghana has sat on the Security Council.
e. Political corruption in Ghana has been common since independence. Since 2017, Ghana's score on Transparency International 's Corruption Perceptions Index has improved slightly from its low point that year, a score of 40 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). Ghana's score rose to 43 by 2020 and has remained there until ...
Mitigation and adaptation. Ghana signed the Paris Agreement on 22 April 2016 and ratified it on 21 September 2016. The first national climate change adaptation strategy in Ghana was developed to be implemented between 2010 and 2020. [20] Adaptation seeks to lower the risks posed by the consequences of climate change.