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71 Fishermen Rescued After Armed Sea Robbery Attack Off Ghana’s Central Region

| C/R: Accident at Sea, News, Uncategorized

Incident Brief Incident: Armed Robbery at Sea / Piracy Attack on Fishermen Date: 27 February 2026 Location: Offshore waters near Senya Beraku, Central Region, Ghana Time: At about 7:30pm Victims: 71 fishermen from Senya Beraku and surrounding fishing communities...

Climate Interventions in Mining Areas

| News, Uncategorized

Mining activities, while economically significant, often leave behind severe environmental and climate-related challenges, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, contaminated water bodies, and degraded soils. These impacts reduce communities’ resilience to climate...

PRESS RELEASE: TAKE ACTION TO REDUCE MARINE MAMMAL BYCATCH AND SAVE GHANA’S FISHERIES

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As Ghana joins the international community to celebrate this years’ World Fisheries Day, Friends of the Nation and Centre for Coastal Management of the University of Cape Coast with support from the Oceans Associated Incorporated (OAI) and the National Oceanic...

Engagement with Coastal MMDAs on Fisheries Management

| Natural Resources Governance, News, Oceans & Fisheries, Uncategorized

Friends of the Nation under the USAID – US Agency for International Development Sustainable Fisheries Management Project engaged officers from coastal Institutions and Agencies, District Police and Districts Assemblies along the entire coast line. The meeting...

2018 World Day Against Child Labour

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Let us all join this campaign to accelerate action to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 8.8 of safe and secure working environments for all workers by 2030 and SDG target 8.7 of ending all forms of child labour by 2025. Achieving these goals for the...

Social Accountability Project

| Social Accountability, Uncategorized

Friends of the Nation (FoN) launched its social accountability project in Shama on June 2, 2015. This project, supported by the French Embassy and the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), seeks to increase transparency and accountability in public...