Streets in Nairobi slum are littered with human waste, prompting locals to develop innovative solutions to the problem. Wherever you walk in Kibera, the Kenyan capital's biggest slum, there's one...
Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Mohammed Adjei Sowah says his administration is going to turn attention to Agbogbloshie in a move to transform the country’s biggest slum....
What is the circumference of the planet earth? No need to be specific, but we know it would make a baobab tree look very, very small. With that in mind, consider this, if all the people living in...
Residents of Ashaiman Presby Junction are at risk of an imminent outbreak of diseases over the mismanagement of a landfill site in the area. The residents complain that they have had to endure...
Over the last two days, my colleagues and I on the Citi Breakfast Show have been raging about the filthy towns and cities. We were stunned to learn the World Bank was considering cutting aid to Ghana...
Sanitation and Water Resources Minister Joseph Kofi Adda has disclosed government will inaugurate ‘sanitation police’ to help deal with filth in the country. According to him, the Ministry has...
Did you know that 663 million people live without safe water supply close to their homes, making them spend countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts...
The Ministry of Sanitation has revealed government’s plans to erect private toilet facilities in Ghana, as an effective measure of addressing open defecation in the country. The Minister of...
Government intends to construct toilet facilities in various homes across the country as an effective measure of addressing open defecation, the Minister of Sanitation, Kofi Adda, has revealed. The...
The Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday March 21, 2017 focused on open defecation and measures that can be taken to resolve it.Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking news in Ghana....
Government intends to construct toilet facilities in various homes across the country as an effective measure of addressing open defecation, the Minister of Sanitation, Kofi Adda, has revealed. The...
Open defecation persists in Ghana despite continuous education about its effect on society because many Ghanaians consider the practice as a “normal” way of life. According to David Duncan, the...
A years-long crime spree by Chinese toilet paper thieves may have reached the end of its roll after park officials in southern Beijing installed facial recognition technology to flush out bathroom...
Public toilets in Beijing are deploying facial recognition technology to stop tissue paper thieves. At the Temple of Heaven, a popular tourist site, toilet users have to stand in front of the smart...
The Asutifi North District Assembly (ANDA) in the Brong Ahafo Region, has been selected by the IRC, an international Non Government Organization (NGO) to pilot a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)...
The World Bank will soon withdraw its grant support on water and sanitation to Ghana, Mr Charles Dzradosi, a Social Policy Specialist of UNICEF, has said. This is because, for some years now, Ghana...
The Environmental Service Providers Association says spending $700 million to construct new drains and dislodge choked ones is not an effective way to prevent the perennial floods in Accra. While...
The Environmental Service Providers Association says spending $700 million to construct new drains and dislodge choked ones is not an effective way to prevent the perennial floods in Accra. While...
Integrated waste management solution champions, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has announced plans to partner newly created ministry—Inner-City and Zongo Development. The move, according to the waste...
The 2016 District League Table has revealed that not a single community in the entire 16 metropolitan, municipal and districts in the Greater Accra Region has been certified as open-defecation free....
