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Ghana GBV Tracker

2 indexed fatal people · 1 indexed serious non-fatal event

Reviewed 25 October 2026 · published 26 October 2026 · coverage from 1 August 2026. This is an incomplete, nonprobability public-source register. It cannot estimate national incidence, prevalence or perpetrator distributions and must not be used to rank countries.

Fatal figures count people; serious non-fatal figures count distinct events. Research leads are excluded. August and September’s calendar periods have ended; this incomplete register remains open to late reports and corrections. October remains in progress.

Start with: Monthly evidence ledger → for the month-by-month picture, or Counted case index → to inspect individual indexed records. Uncounted research leads and corrections remain further down the page.

Monthly pages: August 2026 · September 2026 · October 2026

Monthly evidence ledger

Month	Fatal people	Non-fatal events	Cumulative fatal people	Cumulative non-fatal events
August 2026	1	0	1	0
September 2026	0	0	1	0
October 2026	1	1	2	1

Zero indexed means no qualifying dated record entered here, not zero violence. Incident/death dates determine the month; documented discovery can be an explicitly provisional proxy. Article, arrest and court dates alone never determine occurrence month.

Reported actor and victim gender

Fatal allegation pairing	People; denominator 2
Man alleged → woman	1
Woman alleged → man	1

Non-fatal denominator: 1 event. One male-actor/female-survivor event. GH-NF-2026-001 remains undated and excluded.

These categories describe this register only. Unknowns remain in the denominator. An allegation, charge or police attribution is not a finding of guilt.

Counted case index

Stable case ID · open history	Person or safe identifier	Unit
GH-GBV-2026-001	Abena Donkor	Fatal person
GH-GBV-2026-002	Greater Accra adult man · identity withheld	Fatal person
GH-NF-2026-002	Western Region adult survivor · identity withheld	Distinct non-fatal event

4 source-linked research records remain outside the dated totals; these include undated, unclassified and out-of-coverage leads.

August 2026 · individual histories

Abena Donkor · GH-GBV-2026-001

When: 10–11 August 2026 (day disputed) · Where: Brodi, Tain District, Bono Region · Record: Fatal — alleged intimate-partner killing

Victim/survivor gender: Woman · Reported accused gender: Man (husband; alleged) · Evidence: Reported · Justice: Police investigation reported; no judgment established

Ghana News Agency cited a local assembly member in reporting that Abena Donkor died after an alleged attack by her husband while they were on a farm at Brodi. Daily Guide independently reported the partner-killing allegation but differs on some details. Both report that the husband was later found dead. The death of the husband is not counted as a GBV victim in this register: GNA called it suicide, while Daily Guide reported possible mob violence and said the circumstances were unclear. No court finding against him was established in the reports checked.

Source disagreement and gaps: GNA describes the death as occurring on “Monday, August 11,” but in 2026 Monday was August 10; Daily Guide says Monday night without a numeric day. Age is also disputed (43 in Daily Guide, 45 in GNA). The month and her identity agree; a precise day, age and the husband’s cause of death are not asserted here.

Source lineage: Ghana News Agency, 13 Aug · Daily Guide, 14 Aug · Last checked: 12 September 2026

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September 2026 · individual histories

Uncounted and undated research records

All records in this section are excluded from monthly and cumulative totals. A case-style ID does not imply that a record is counted.

Ahafo student · identity withheld · GH-NF-2026-001

Date: Occurrence month not established; reports published 24–25 August 2026. Excluded from monthly and cumulative totals.

Undated allegation of attempted sexual coercion involving a male school guard and a female student. A Ghana Education Service official confirmed an inquiry, not the allegation or occurrence date. Retain the stable record pending dated evidence. No criminal charge or conviction is established. Names, school and other identifying details are withheld.

Source lineage: Citi Newsroom, 24 August · Citi Newsroom, 25 August; GES inquiry. Same newsroom; not independent corroboration.

Volta Region adult woman · identity withheld · GH-LEAD-2026-001

Date basis: October report; precise occurrence date not established here · Unit: Uncounted research record · Excluded from totals.

Reported actor: Man alleged by local official · Victim/survivor: Woman

GNA reported a couple found dead. A local assembly member alleged that the husband killed his wife and himself, but police confirmation of cause and responsibility was pending. Do not count either death as GBV on this allegation alone.

Evidence: Local-authority allegation; police classification pending

Sources: GNA, 8 October · Reviewed: 11 October 2026.

Adult domestic-abuse complainant · identity withheld · GH-LEAD-2026-002

Date basis: Occurrence month unresolved; court report 11 October 2026 · Unit: Uncounted research record · Excluded from totals.

Reported actor: Man; husband alleged · Victim/survivor: Woman

GNA reported an ongoing domestic-abuse complaint, a police support response and a missed court attendance. The account spans earlier months and does not establish a single qualifying dated serious event. Retain as a justice-follow-up lead; do not infer a new October incident.

Evidence: CID-linked complaint and court reporting; no adjudication established

Sources: GNA, 11 October · Reviewed: 11 October 2026.

Evidence and policy follow-up

School and police complaint systems should publish privacy-safe occurrence periods separately from petition, arrest and court dates.

These are documentation and follow-up recommendations grounded in the listed records, not a prevalence comparison or a finding of institutional failure.

Developments we checked but did not add to these months

The original reporting on an Upper East school case and September court report describe alleged sexual assaults in June–July 2026, followed by arrests in August and court proceedings in September. They are not an August or September incident in this start-from-August ledger. Reports of a Tarkwa conviction in September describe an assault on 26 May 2026; the sentencing date cannot make it a September incident. These are tracked as earlier-period policy and justice leads, not counted deaths or incidents here.

Ghana institutions, law and research

The Ghana Police Service describes its Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) as available to all victims, including men, and lists a helpline, 055-100-0900. The Domestic Violence Act, 2007 (Act 732) sets the domestic-violence framework. UNFPA Ghana’s 2026 publication based on the 2022 Demographic and Health Survey provides population-level context with a different survey period and measurement; none of its figures can be added to these monthly case records. CHRAJ’s September 2026 community training is a policy response to follow, not a new incident.

Methodology and safeguards

Scope and units. Ghana incidents dated from 1 August 2026 onward with an attributable intimate-partner, sexual-violence, or other evidence-supported gender-related element. Fatal figures count people who died from alleged GBV; serious non-fatal figures count distinct events, including attributable attempted sexual coercion in an institutional power relationship. Do not automatically classify every woman killed as femicide. Exclude a suspect’s later death unless it independently meets GBV criteria. Put cases with incompatible or unlocated incident dates outside the monthly counters until dated.

Verification. Both initial cases are Reported, not judicial findings. For each material claim, follow the linked original newsroom or named source; syndicated rewrites do not count as independent evidence. Compare person, alias, location, relationship and incident timing before giving a permanent Ghana ID. Log changes to date, age, legal status, classification or count. If a reported allegation is disproven, remove or reclassify it visibly and recalculate totals.

Safeguards. Withhold sexual-violence survivors’ names, exact addresses, school classes, medical information and images, even when already shared online. No graphic photography. Do not identify or repeat allegations about a private student beyond what is needed to explain this anonymized record. Use “alleged,” “reported,” and “according to” until a court finding. Send evidence or correction requests through the TUBUO Writes evidence form; do not submit confidential details in public comments.

This is an incomplete, nonprobability public-source register. It cannot estimate national incidence, prevalence or perpetrator distributions and must not be used to rank countries.

Corrections and version history

First release · 12 September 2026: 1 fatal death and 1 serious non-fatal incident indexed for August; September has 0 indexed in both categories through the 12th. For GH-GBV-2026-001, the source-linked 10–11 August range and disputed age replace an unjustifiably precise date or age; the cause of the husband’s death remains unresolved in public accounts. There is no earlier Ghana page to correct. Later changes will record previous value, revised value, evidence and the date of change.

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Publication correction · 11 October 2026

GH-NF-2026-001: publication-date assignment removed; August non-fatal 1→0. Two October research leads added outside totals.

Cumulative since August: 1 fatal people / 1 non-fatal events → 1 fatal people / 0 non-fatal events. Sources and individual date decisions appear in the linked histories.

Country-by-country source map · Public change log

November 2026 ledger: Open November 2026 records. The November register is open for verified additions; no incident should be inferred from the absence of indexed records.