The Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) programme has identified a filling station in Oyarifa sitting “directly on the water body”, describing the development as one of the human activities contributing to the recurrent flooding in parts of the Greater Accra Region. The disclosure was made by the National Coordinator of GARID, Dr. Kwadwo […] The post GARID

The Ghana Armed Forces has appealed to residents in flood-hit areas to cooperate fully with security personnel and engineering teams as a nationwide cleanup and demobilisation exercise gets underway, following floods that killed dozens of people in Accra on June 28, 2026. Briefing journalists at the Jubilee House, Brigadier General Okae-Yeboah, Director General of Joint […] The post Military Appeals for Public Coorperation As Nationwide

More than 10,000 structures have sprung up within the 25-metre statutory buffer zones of major watercourses across just 16 assemblies studied, a survey by the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) programme has found — a key driver, officials say, behind the flooding that has devastated seven regions of the country. Speaking at a […] The post Flood Conundrum: Over