Ghana: Another ‘June’, Another Flood – What the Maps Have Been Telling Us All Along

Every June, the capital city, Accra, collectively braces itself for what has become an unfortunate annual ritual. Yet beyond the headlines and social media videos lies a deeper question: why does flooding continue to affect the same communities year after year and now areas that never got flooded despite decades of appeals and interventions?

I remember working on flood-risk and spatial analysis projects and noticing something striking. When flood reports were plotted on a map and compared against…