The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has replaced and delivered 200 passports to Ghanaians who lost their travel documents during the devastating June 29 floods.
Checks indicate that another 200 passports are currently being processed as part of the second batch of replacements.
The exercise followed the Ministry’s decision to provide free replacement services to passport holders whose valid documents were lost in the floods.
A total of 705 applications were submitted by the July 17, 2026 deadline set by the Ministry for affected persons to apply for the replacement service.
Of the applications received, 623 applicants were found to have valid passports at the time of the floods and, therefore, qualified for free replacement.
The remaining 82 applications were rejected because the passports presented had expired before the flooding occurred.
Floods Affected Thousands
The replacement exercise was necessitated by the June 29 floods, which followed torrential rains and caused widespread destruction, disruption to transportation and displacement of thousands of people.
Several communities in the Greater Accra Region were particularly affected, including Alajo, Adabraka, Kaneshie, Odawna, Weija, Mallam, Tse Addo and parts of the Tema Metropolis.
The Ghana Meteorological Agency recorded 169.2 millimetres of rainfall on June 29.
The total rainfall recorded for June was 593.2 millimetres, the highest monthly rainfall recorded since systematic rainfall records began in 1995.
Updated figures released by the Ministry of the Interior on Monday, Aug. 24, showed that 91,989 people from 18,398 households across 77 districts in seven regions were affected by the disaster.
The floods resulted in 39 deaths, while one person, a four-month-old baby, remained missing.
Free Replacement Exercise
Following the disaster, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited affected passport holders who had lost their documents in the floods to submit applications for free replacement.
The July 17 deadline was set for the submission of applications to enable the Ministry to verify affected persons and process their replacement documents.
The delivery of the first 200 replacement passports forms part of the Ministry’s response to help flood victims restore access to essential travel documents.
