TOWN OF DANSAMON, GREATER ACCRA, GHANA - JUNE 15: With a coastline of 550 kilometers in West Africa, and a quarter of its population living by the sea Ghana is struggling with the coastal erosion, as the sea claims more of the West African shoreline.The water level in the country has increased due to global warming, and unregulated human activities have greatly accelerated the problem of coastal erosion.The impact of erosion and tidal waves along the Ghana coast is likely to get worse with climate change and rising sea levels.According to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) study, 37 percent of Ghana’s eastern coastal land was lost by erosion and flooding between 2005 and 2017.Although the government of Ghana has been working against erosion, the situation has worsened in the last three years.More than 4,000 families were displaced, while dozens of homes were damaged by erosion.The University of Cape Coast’s Center for Coastal Management says Ghana’s shoreline moves inland an average of two meters annually.Benjamin Commey, who lives in the town of Dansoman in the Greater Accra region and has been running a recreational facility for 11 years, told Anadolu Agency that his business has stopped due to erosion on the coast.Commey stated that coastal erosion threatens the lives of local people.Expressing that she has been working in the town for five years, Charlotte Barnor said, erosion causes great financial losses while many homes and workplaces were damaged.To mitigate the impacts of coastal erosion the construction of a sea-defense wall began in 1999 under the administration of the late President Jerry Rawlings, but was not completed because of a change in government and subsequent neglect by political leaders.