[AFRICANEWS] The Lower Volta Basin in Ghana is grappling with a dire situation following the release of excess water from the Akosombo and Kpong dams, leading to severe flooding.
The resilient residents are fighting against both the fury of nature and the deluge caused by man-made actions, with their very existence hanging in the balance.
46-year-old Kojo Atsu is one of over 25,000 people who are now homeless.
He and his family were saved just before his three-bedroom apartment collapsed.
Many others have lost their businesses to the floodwaters.
Residents watch helplessly while their homes and farms continue to be submerged across six districts:
" The water situation in this community is very-very bad for us, more than one week, we couldn’t do anything about this water."
Critical installations, including hospitals, morgues, schools, banks, and marketplaces are all underwater.
The national disaster management organization, NADMO, with support from the Ghana navy and other security agencies are frantically working to relocate the affected people.
Samuel Okudjetou Ablawa is MP for north Tongu: I will demand a probe into this affair, people must not get away so the most importantly, there will be reforms and this will not recourse. And then we must be thinking about an engineering solution as a country.
The Akosombo and Kpong dams play a crucial role in providing hydroelectric power producing about 1,072 megawatts of Ghana's total energy mix.
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[AFRICANEWS] The Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... ’s top court on Monday threw out a suit seeking to bar opposition politician Moise Katumbi from running for president on the grounds that he was not Congolese.
The wealthy businessman, whose father was Italian, is considered one of the most serious challengers to incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi, who is seeking a second term in office.
The case was brought against Katumbi by his fellow presidential candidate, Noel Tshiani, who argued that he did not have Congolese nationality.
Dual nationality is not recognised under Congolese law.
But during proceedings, Katumbi’s lawyer argued that there was no proof his client held any nationality other than Congolese.
The Constitutional Court ruled that Tshiani's suit was "unfounded".
Tsiani is also the initiator of a draft law that, if passed, would allow only citizens whose parents were both Congolese to hold high political office.
Katumbi was once an ally of Tshisikedi, but left the coalition earlier this year, fuelling suspicions that the proposed law targeted him.
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[AFRICANEWS] Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ’s main opposition Social Democratic Front, on Sunday elected Joshua Osih as its new leader.
Previously its vice-president, he succeeded the movement's founder John Fru Ndi, who died in June after presiding over the SDF since its creation in 1990.
Osih, who won with 62 per cent of the vote during the party’s elective convention, will now lead the SDF into the 2025 elections.
Although it is a leading opposition party, it has only five seats in the current 180-seat parliament, down from 18 in the previous legislature.
Osih was the party’s candidate in the 2018 presidential election, but came fourth with just over 3 per cent of the vote.
Parliament has been dominated for decades by the all-powerful Cameroonian People's Democratic Movement.
It is led by 90-year-old incumbent President Paul Biya, who has ruled the country since 1982.
Biya is regularly accused by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... and international NGOs of repressing the opposition, journalists, and civil society leaders.
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[AFRICANEWS] More than 70 people were missing on Monday after a boat capsized in northern Nigeria, according to authorities who deplored the frequent deadly boat accidents in Africa's most populous country. "Phil Swift here with a boat made entirely of glass panels and Flex Seal Tape!"
The boat was carrying traders returning from a fish market in Taraba state's Ardo-Kola district late Saturday when it capsized on the Benue River, which is one of Nigeria's largest, the national emergency services said.
More than 100 passengers were on board and 14 were rescued, while 17 bodies have been recovered and 73 people are missing, Ladan Ayuba, head of Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Taraba Gov. Agbu Kefas called the accident a "monumental tragedy" and ordered the use of life jackets for boat passengers. "Our body of water, which is one of the longest in the region, should be a veritable source of wealth and not death," the governor said, according to a statement issued Monday by his office.
Boat disasters are common in remote communities across the West African nation. This is the third involving more than 100 passengers in just four months. Most are attributed to overloading. Good, accessible roads are often lacking in those areas.
Authorities were investigating the cause of this accident, said Taraba police spokesperson Usman Abdullahi. Locals and fishermen were helping rescue agencies.
Abdullahi said he feared that the operation could last for days because the river is flowing at its highest level.
"We don't even expect to get the bodies anywhere near here," he said.
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[ZERO] America's anti-obesity craze, courtesy of GLP-1-based weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro made by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, continues to gain momentum as yet another Wall Street bank loses faith in obese consumers.
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At over $14.50 a Dz and $1 off for the 2nd DZ. VS. what use to cost $8.50 2-3 years ago and 2nd DZ $2.50 off. We haven't visited them in over a year, even with the HOT-N-NOW sign flashing at me.
Dating myself here:
1972 - After School Booster club sale.
Paid $2.50 for my 1st dz. Glazed and $1.50 for the added 2nd dz.Glazed.
Had to give the School Bus Driver, 2 Glazed doughnuts, just to bring them on the bus. Needless to say I was very popular sitting in the back of the bus that day. The Glazed Mustache / Smile was shared by a number of young ladies faces for the ride home.
[Armageddon] I have written extensively at Armageddon Prose and elsewhere about Canada’s liberal and loving "Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) program designed to help the serfs off themselves in an orderly, state-sanctioned fashion.
Trudeau’s governing authorities have gone as far as advocating the state killing of infants in the name of Equity™ or whatever. The government even produced a MAID coloring book for children to understand the merits of having the state kill you.
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They still get to vote. That's all the pols care about...
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The IDF will nominate Canada to supply health services to Hamas. Everybody gets what they want.
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Optimistic alternate headline...
Canuck euthanasia! Huge trend
Suggests a dread state they can't mend:
Of twenty-five dying,
One loon eschews trying
To drive on through painful dead end.
Off to read the article and get properly outraged.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
Ref #5: Hey, "Death and Taxes". They've got your money, it's time the rest.
