The Volta River Basin encompasses 402,000 square kilometers. Most of this area is in Ghana and Burkina Faso, with the remainder in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Togo.

Accra, June 25, GNA – A three-day workshop to address environmental and social concerns in the Volta River Basin has opened in Accra. The workshop is in relation to the Reversing Ecosystem and ...

Stakeholders are raising alarm over the rise in female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) at lakeside communities within the Volta Basin in the wake of the Akosombo Dam spillage. The river-borne tropical ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New water management strategies will be needed to ensure sufficient water supplies in West Africa’s Volta River Basin, a region likely to be hard hit by ...

He said this corridor, which was centred on the Volta Lake and the Volta Basin, would become a national production zone and logistics fund. He said the plan envisions cultivating over a million ...

Dakar — Drastic water loss in West Africa's River Volta basin - covering Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and Togo - could deprive millions of people of food and hydropower in ...

The Volta Basin, which lies mainly in Ghana (42%) and Burkina Faso (43%) with minor parts in Togo, Cote d=B4Ivoire, Mali and Benin, has the volta lake, the largest man-made in the world ...

It can be located in the eastern part of Ghana’s coast, specifically in the lower Volta basin, and it has huge untapped ecological and economic potentials and values. The situation in the Volta delta ...

Communities along the Volta River Basin in Ghana and Burkina Faso are planting trees along the banks of the river to discourage farming activities and prevent siltation, Mr Kwame Odame-Ababio ...

The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP) says it cannot be held liable for any wrongful payment of compensation to victims of the Volta Basin Flooded Area. “The ministry would like ...

ACCRA, GHANA (19 July, 2013)—A new study released today finds that so much water may be lost in the Volta River Basin due to climate change that planned hydroelectric projects to boost energy ...