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.

13 Oct to 19 Oct3 storiesUpdated every two hours

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

    NAIMOS sustains offensive against illegal mining on the Tano river, 92 changfan machines taken out

    Asemkrom, Aowin, Western North · Aowin, Western Northvia ClassFM Online

  2. Illegal mining (galamsey)

    Kwaku Charles and Nana Dibi die in Sefwi Datano pit collapse

    Bodi, Western North · Western North Region1 outlet

  3. Illegal mining (galamsey)

    Police arrest 16 suspects and seize 209 cartridges at Gbane mining site

    Gbane, Gushegu, Northern · Talensi, Upper East1 outlet

Most reported districts

  1. Aowin1Western North
  2. Bodi1Western North
  3. Gushegu1Northern
  4. Talensi1Upper East

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.