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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.

16 Oct to 22 Oct3 storiesUpdated every two hours

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  • Environment
  • District, no town named
  1. Illegal mining (galamsey)

    NAIMOS destroys 92 changfan machines on Tano River

    Asemkrom, Aowin, Western North · Aowin, Western North2 outlets

  2. Illegal mining (galamsey)

    Forestry Commission destroys 1,103 changfan machines in Western Region

    Western Region1 outlet

  3. Illegal mining (galamsey)

    Kwaku Charles and Nana Dibi die in Sefwi Datano pit collapse

    Bodi, Western North · Western North Region1 outlet

Most reported districts

  1. Aowin1Western North
  2. Bodi1Western North

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.