{"id":235780,"date":"2026-06-09T05:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-govt-steps-up-flood-control-with-new-measures\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:34:13","slug":"ghana-govt-steps-up-flood-control-with-new-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-govt-steps-up-flood-control-with-new-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Govt Steps Up Flood Control With New Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The government has announced a raft of measures to tackle the country&#8217;s recurring flooding problems, including accelerating drainage improvement projects, removing structures obstructing waterways and strengthening early warning systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Minister for Works, Housing and Water Resources, Mr Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, said the government was also intensifying the desilting and maintenance of drainage channels in major flood-prone areas as part of efforts to reduce the impact of heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">He added&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606080568.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>The government has announced a raft of measures to tackle the country&#8217;s recurring flooding problems, including accelerating drainage improvement projects, removing structures obstructing waterways and strengthening early warning systems. The Minister for Works, Housing and Water Resources, Mr Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, said the government was also intensifying the desilting and maintenance of drainage channels in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235781,"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":[258,256,6877,8785,4508,4509,4357,7305,257,254,9150],"class_list":["post-235780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-control","tag-flood","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-govt","tag-measures","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steps"],"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\/235780","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=235780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}