Bagre Dam spillage: Hundreds of Farmers count their losses
By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH The spillage of the Bagre dam from neighbouring Burkina-Faso has submerged hundreds of farmlands along the White Volta in the Upper East Region. Farmers have now begun appealing to the government to support them to venture into dry season farming to fend for their families. The spillage, which occurred on September 1, […]
Trade and Economic Promotion Days: Burkina Faso seeks GSA’s collaboration
The Burkina Faso Embassy in Ghana has called on the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) to extend an invitation to participate in the 2022 Trade and Economic Promotion Days to be held at the International Conference Center in Accra. A delegation from the Burkina Faso Embassy in Ghana led by the Registrar General of Burkina Faso, […]
Togo deploys troops to contain security threats from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger
About 15 assailants and eight soldiers were killed during a “terrorist” attack last week in the north of Togo. Security Minister, General Damehame Yark said the troops have been deployed to the north of the country to contain a security threat pushing south from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger where groups linked to al-Qaeda and […]
Ghana ‘feeds’ Burkina Faso via World Food Programme deliveries
By Nicholas Osei Wusu The World Food Programme, WFP, has begun taking an order of 10 thousand metric tons of food from Ghana for 2022 to feed the vulnerable in neighbouring Burkina Faso. The WFP has explained that the decision to take its food supply order from Ghana is a deliberate measure not only to […]
NADMO issues flood alert over looming dam spillage in Burkina Faso
By Samuel Ayammah Officials in Burkina Faso have hinted that they would open up the spillways to the Bagre Dam to allow for spillage of excess water to maintain the dam’s operating capacity. They have scheduled the spillage to run from the 27th to the 28 of August, 2021. In line with the event, authorities […]
