Ghana is home to Lake Volta, the world's largest man-made lake by surface area. Covering approximately 8,500 square ...

Sold by their parents, around 20,000 children work on the lake, enslaved by the fishermen they call “master.” Dawn breaks over the water. Adam leads a column of five other boys through the high, ...

Lake Volta is the world's biggest man-made lake, and trees rise above the water's surface. Fishing nets can become caught on the limbs, and children are made to dive into the water to untangle them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Ghana's Lake Volta, children are working in the fishing industry. Some work with their families, but others are trafficked ...

Water hyacinth is rapidly spreading across southern Ghana's Lake Volta, severely impacting fishing, depleting fish stocks, and threatening local livelihoods. The water hyacinth, a free-floating ...

How the largest man-made lake became a place to untangle the bonds of slavery. Anita Budu stepped to the water’s edge and searched the horizon. Lake Volta is the most expansive artificial reservoir in ...

For generations, when Accra needed to breathe, it went to the water. An hour and a half north-east of the capital, where the Volta River widens into the largest artificial lake on earth, Akosombo has ...

Lake Volta — A recent report by UNICEF and the International Labour Organization found that the number of children who are working around the world has risen for the first time in two decades. The ...

As part of efforts to ensure safety for travelers on the Volta Lake, Zoil, a subsidiary of Zoomlion Ghana Limited has presented three thousand pieces of life jackets to Tepa-Abotoase and surrounding ...