The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited and other collaborating institutions, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, intensified its flood preparedness efforts with a large-scale drain-clearing exercise at multiple flood-prone locations across the Greater Accra Region to improve the free flow of stormwater and minimise the risk of flooding ahead of […]
A multi-stakeholder forum held in Sunyani has recommended sweeping reforms to Ghana’s mining laws and compensation framework following the presentation of a damning report detailing widespread environmental and human rights abuses linked to Newmont Ghana Gold Limited’s operations. The event, which took place on Friday, June 26, brought together community members, regulators and civil society […]
The government, in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of the Jospong Group, has reopened the Achimota-Abofu Transfer Station to restore waste collection services and address sanitation challenges caused by recent floods across the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. The Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Hon. Ahmed Ibrahim, announced the intervention during […]
Legal literacy is key to empowering mining communities to assert their rights against companies, the Executive Director of the Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) has told affected residents as the Fair Finance Project intensifies efforts to equip them with knowledge of Ghana’s mining laws. The one-day legal literacy training workshop, held in Koforidua, Eastern […]
When communities face the impacts of mining, access to justice often remains out of reach. Legal processes can be expensive, complex and inaccessible to many of the people most affected by environmental degradation, land disputes and human rights violations. To bridge this gap, the Building Resilient and Active Communities in Extractive Landscapes (BRACE) Project convened […]
OmniBSIC Bank has launched a school-based plastic recovery initiative in partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s Institute of Industrial Research (CSIR-IIR) and Ocean Tribe Foundation, marking a significant step towards advancing Ghana’s circular economy agenda through education, environmental stewardship, and industrial innovation. The project, themed ‘Recovering Plastics for Industry and Sustainable Environment’, […]
Zoomlion Ghana Limited, in partnership with the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Dredge Masters Gh. Ltd and other partners on Wednesday, June 17, intensified its flood prevention and drainage desilting exercise across several vulnerable communities in the Greater Accra Region as the country enters the peak of the rainy season. The large-scale intervention, which forms […]
Let Love Lead NGO has successfully organised the 4th edition of its Annual Sanitation Drive, bringing together close to 3,000 participants in what has become the organisation’s largest community mobilisation effort to date. Held as part of activities commemorating the June 3rd disaster, participants undertook a large-scale clean-up of the major drainage channel stretching from […]
Zoomlion Ghana Limited, the National Disaster Management Oganization (NADMO) and its partners have posted officers in all the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) across Greater Accra to monitor and maintain flood-prone drains, in a bid to sustain gains made during a 3-day clean-up, desilting and dredging exercise as the rainy season intensifies. The move […]
Vivo Energy Ghana PLC, the exclusive distributor and marketer of Shell-branded fuels and lubricants, has climaxed this year’s Sustainability Week celebration themed “Kicking Off for Sustainability” with a fuel donation to Buz Stop Boys, a sanitation-focused volunteer organisation championing cleaner communities, and a customer engagement activation at selected Shell service stations, where motorists received eco-friendly […]
Following the three-day anti-flood clean-up operation launched by Zoomlion Ghana Limited and its partners, Dredge Masters Limited on Thursday, June 11, deployed specialised equipment to dredge and desilt critical drains in Weija, Mepeasem (near UPSA), and other parts of the Greater Accra Region. Despite heavy silt and solid waste that had cut capacity in major […]
In a significant step toward fostering environmental consciousness and sustainability education in Ghana, the Rights of Nature Ghana Movement (RoNAG) has successfully concluded a week-long series of interactive workshops on the Rights of Nature (RoN) across six Colleges of Education and the Department of Teacher Education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology […]
