What began as a flagship public sanitation initiative nearly two decades ago has morphed into Ghana’s longest-running and most controversial waste management saga – and newly elected President John ...

Cape Coast, Sept 16, GNA — For Ato Kwamina, a fisherman at Ntsin in the Cape Coast Metropolis, rubbish scattered along the beach is not simply a sanitation problem. It is a threat to his livelihood.

Ghana grapples with a mounting crisis of plastic waste, producing around 840,000 tonnes annually, with a meager 9.5 percent being effectively recycled. Researchers are investigating innovative uses of ...

A new report by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) warns that African cities are being misled toward ...

Agnes Kwansah dragged her sacks across the dusty truck yard, around assorted piles of garbage, to reach the pop-up weighing station. She’d spent the last month collecting discarded bottles around ...

A Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies at the University of Ghana, Dr Ted Yemoh Annang, has called for a major shift in the country's approach to waste ...

Ghana’s sanitation crisis has persisted for decades despite substantial public expenditure, numerous policy initiatives, and repeated nationwide clean-up campaigns. Across our cities and ...

On any given day, plumes of noxious smoke rise above the Agbogbloshie dump site in Ghana's capital, Accra. The billowing black smoke comes from the many informal e-waste recyclers who take unwanted ...

The Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, has announced plans to formalise waste transfer loading stations and integrate tricycle waste collectors into ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), a Ghanaian waste management entrepreneur, was one of the five winners at the recent Earthshot Prize awards ...

When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation's capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of ...