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What happened where in Ghana

Fires, floods, road crashes, protests, power cuts and new projects, placed on the map from the last 7 days of reporting. Tap a place to see its stories.

13 Oct to 19 Oct6 storiesUpdated every two hours

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  • District, no town named
  1. Demolitions and evictions

    Ashaiman District Police demolish suspected criminal hideouts at Fitter-Line

    Ashaiman Municipal, Greater Accra1 outlet

  2. Power and water disruptions

    ECG schedules maintenance power cuts in Accra and Tema from October 19

    Greater Accra Region · Tema Metropolitan, Greater Accra1 outlet

  3. Power and water disruptions

    ECG attributes Ashanti Region power outages to Ridge BSP cable fault

    Sepaase, Atwima Nwabiagya South, Ashanti · Kumasi Metropolitan, Ashanti · Ashanti Region1 outlet

  4. Demolitions and evictions

    GHATOF demands compensation for 85 demolished La Pleasure Beach businesses

    Place not named1 outlet

  5. Fires and explosions, Power and water disruptions

    GRIDCo Mallam substation fire causes power outages in Accra

    Lapaz, Okaikwei North Municipal, Greater Accra · Anyaa, Ga Central Municipal, Greater Accra · Awoshi, Ablekuma North Municipal, Greater Accra3 outlets

  6. Demolitions and evictions

    Michael Kpakpo Allotey leads demolition of unauthorized Agbogbloshie pigsty

    Sodom and Gomorah, Ablekuma Central Municipal, Greater Accra · Greater Accra Region1 outlet

Most reported districts

  1. Ablekuma Central Municipal1Greater Accra
  2. Ablekuma North Municipal1Greater Accra
  3. Ashaiman Municipal1Greater Accra
  4. Atwima Nwabiagya South1Ashanti
  5. Ga Central Municipal1Greater Accra
  6. Kumasi Metropolitan1Ashanti
  7. Okaikwei North Municipal1Greater Accra
  8. Tema Metropolitan1Greater Accra
  9. Weija Gbawe Municipal1Greater Accra

How this map works

Anansi reads the reporting behind every story, picks out events such as fires, floods, crashes, protests and outages, and places each one at the town or district the reporting names. A story covered by several outlets counts once. A dot is a town; a ring is a district where no town was named. Stories that name only a region are listed but not drawn.

Counts are stories reported, not incidents, and busy places get more coverage than quiet ones. A place we could not pin down with confidence is left off the map rather than guessed.

Events are read from Anansi News reporting and placed on the map by Anansi. Boundaries: OCHA COD-AB (CC BY-IGO 3.0). Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0).

Have sites in Ghana? Anansi Intelligence watches the reports near them and alerts you.