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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?<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8785,4508,4509,7486,15728,257,254,25885],"class_list":["post-238468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-flood","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-june","tag-maps","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238468","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=238468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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