The Government of Ghana has announced plans to formally integrate tricycle waste collectors and waste transfer loading stations into the country's long-term sanitation framework as part of efforts to build a more efficient and sustainable waste management system.

Three people, including the owner of a tailings processing site at Aboso near Tarkwa in the Western Region, have been killed following a powerful explosion that ripped through the facility on Tuesday afternoon.

A devastating fire has destroyed nine rooms at the family residence of the late Tamale Central Member of Parliament, Murtala Mohammed, in Tamale, prompting an emergency response from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS).

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has confirmed that firefighters successfully extinguished a major warehouse fire that broke out in the Tema Industrial Area in the early hours of Tuesday, August 4, 2026, with one firefighter sustaining injuries during the emergency response.

The Government of Ghana has received the body of one of two Ghanaian nationals who were killed during the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa, while efforts continue to repatriate the remains of the second victim.

The Government of Ghana has received a group of Ghanaian nationals evacuated from South Africa following recent developments that raised concerns about their safety and well-being.