Key Points
- At least 24 people have died across Ghana and Ivory Coast after days of torrential rain triggered floods and landslides.
- In Ghana, 12 are confirmed dead and 7 missing; nearly 39,000 residents have been displaced across 25 communities in greater Accra.
- Accra recorded 169 millimeters of rain in a single day — the fourth-highest daily total since 1995.
- The government released 300 million cedis ($27 million) for relief and deployed the armed forces.
Floods triggered by days of torrential rain have killed at least 24 people across Ghana and Ivory Coast, displacing tens of thousands and submerging entire neighborhoods in both countries' capital cities, ABC News reported. In Ghana, 12 are confirmed dead and 7 remain missing after 169 millimeters of rain fell on the Accra metropolitan area in a single day — the fourth-highest daily rainfall the country has recorded since 1995, and nearly three times the highest single-day total from all of 2025.
The flooding displaced 38,802 people from 7,761 households across 25 communities in 16 municipal assemblies, Interior Minister Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak confirmed. The hardest-hit area was Korle Klottey, where 6,500 residents — roughly 1,300 households — were forced from their homes. Tema Metropolitan and Tema West each saw more than 3,400 displaced, and Ayawaso Central lost three residents with another missing. In the Ga East assembly, five people died and six are unaccounted for. A mother and her child were swept away together in the Achimota-Agbogbloshie district.
The Ghana National Fire Service pulled more than 470 people from submerged buildings as emergency calls flooded in from around 7 a.m. Monday, though access to many areas remained cut off by standing water. "Access to affected areas was a big problem for emergency services," National Fire Service spokesman Alex King Nartey told reporters. The government released 300 million cedis — roughly $27 million — for relief and deployed armed forces and police personnel alongside the National Disaster Management Organisation.
In Ivory Coast, more than a dozen people died after rains that began Saturday hammered Abidjan. At least nine were killed under rubble in the Mossikro neighborhood, and the Attécoubé and Yopougon municipalities reported additional casualties and landslides. The flooding in both countries has been worsened by the same structural problems — poor drainage, blocked waterways, and rapid urbanization that has outpaced infrastructure — and meteorological agencies in both nations have warned that more rain is expected this week.
Uristocrat has been following developments in Ghana — see our earlier report on Ibrahim Mahama's dispute with police in Tamale. Weeks later, a U.S. State Department map shown at a global AIDS conference placed Ivory Coast on the wrong side of the continent entirely.
Source: ABC News, OurHomeland Ghana, Atlas Magazine
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