{"id":227835,"date":"2026-03-22T14:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-northern-ghana-faces-rising-climate-threats-bewda\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:08:28","slug":"ghana-northern-ghana-faces-rising-climate-threats-bewda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-northern-ghana-faces-rising-climate-threats-bewda\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Northern Ghana Faces Rising Climate Threats &#8211; Bewda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A local non-profit organisation, the Belim Wusa Development Agency (BEWDA), has called for stronger collaboration between communities and government to tackle the growing impact of climate change in northern Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">According to the organisation, while Ghana had outlined several policies and programmes to address the climate crisis, these efforts would fall short without active community involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Speaking at a one-day citizens&#8217; engagement workshop at Zebilla in the Bawku West District, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local non-profit organisation, the Belim Wusa Development Agency (BEWDA), has called for stronger collaboration between communities and government to tackle the growing impact of climate change in northern Ghana. According to the organisation, while Ghana had outlined several policies and programmes to address the climate crisis, these efforts would fall short without active community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,12224,6239,5080,4508,4509,257,4282,6678,254,7611],"class_list":["post-227835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bewda","tag-climate","tag-faces","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}