Lake Volta – A Lifeline Across Ghana Stretching across a vast expanse of eastern Ghana, Lake Volta is more than a body of ...

The volta lake was originally designed to give us cheap source of electricity, but its potentials are beyond everyone’s ...

Ghana is taking concrete steps to turn the “24-Hour Economy” from a slogan into a pipeline of bankable projects. One of the most consequential is the Volta Economic Corridor, an integrated effort to ...

The Government of Ghana, under H.E. John Dramani Mahama, is committed to unlocking the region’s full potential through the ...

Water hyacinth is rapidly spreading across southern Ghana's Lake Volta, severely impacting fishing, depleting fish stocks, and threatening local livelihoods. The water hyacinth, a free-floating ...

On Ghana's Lake Volta, children are working in the fishing industry. Some work with their families, but others are trafficked there to work in modern-day slavery. CBS News correspondent Debora Patta ...

Editor’s Note: Dominika Kulczyk is founder and president of the Kulczyk Foundation which works with local NGOs to support aid projects in countries affected by poverty. The opinions expressed in this ...

Improving preparedness and influence mitigation in the Oti River Basin by extending an existing forecasting system and improving communication of alerts; Strengthening flood management through ...

A top Ghanian official has promised action following a CNN report into child slavery on Lake Volta. Around 20,000 children work on the lake, enslaved by fishermen they call "master." Most of them come ...

How the largest man-made lake became a place to untangle the bonds of slavery. Anita Budu stepped to the water’s edge and searched the horizon. Lake Volta is the most expansive artificial reservoir in ...