The map

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 Oct8 storiesUpdated every two hours

  • Security
  • District, no town named
  1. Fires and explosions, Violent crime

    Kasoa residents pelt firefighters with stones after fire destroys 15 shops

    Awutu Senya East, Central1 outlet

  2. Violent crime

    Kingsley Ozor and Jeffery Otaigbe arrested for murder of 11-year-old girl

    Place not named1 outlet

  3. Protests and strikes

    Road maintenance contractors demand payment for five years of arrears

    Greater Accra Region1 outlet

  4. Protests and strikes

    Haruna Iddrisu refers Obuasi SHTS headmaster to CID for criminal probe

    Obuasi Municipal, Ashanti2 outlets

  5. Protests and strikes

    Assin Kumasi farmers protest sand-winning activities over farm destruction

    Central Region1 outlet

  6. Violent crime

    Robert Akator arrested for alleged murder of two-year-old boy in Hohoe

    Hohoe Municipal, Volta1 outlet

  7. Violent crime

    Ashanti South Police restore calm in Manso-Nseina after fatal shooting

    Ashanti Region3 outlets

  8. Protests and strikes

    University of Ghana sets October 19 reopening for 2026/2027 academic year

    Place not named1 outlet

Most reported districts

  1. Awutu Senya East1Central
  2. Hohoe Municipal1Volta
  3. Obuasi Municipal1Ashanti

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).

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