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Mr Solomon Gayoni, Secretary General of GRCS, who announced this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency after visiting some of the affected persons and communities, said they comprised 571 male adults, 603 female adults, 950 male children, and 1,025 female children.

A total of 3,149 people have so far been displaced due to the floods at Buipe in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region, the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS), has said.

Buipe Floods Displace 1,000 Residents

Introduction The chieftaincy institution is one of the oldest traditional institutions in Ghana with a checkered history. The institution has been resilient despite historical attempts from both colonial rulers and post-independent governments to sidestep the institution and to subjugate and deprive chiefs of their status in Ghanaian society. Shortly after…

Crack Down On Illegal Miners On Black Volta Yields Results - PHOTOS

Crack Down On Illegal Miners On Black Volta Yields Results - PHOTOS

It is an undeniable fact and trite knowledge that the various approach used in the past in tackling or combating the clear and present danger of galamsey activities especially on our river-bodies have nearly failed or yielded very little result comparatively. At least we have seen Operation Vanguard, GalamStop, Operation…

The Government has outdoored two more Community Mining Schemes (CMS) at Moseaso-Abransie in the Manso-Nkwanta District of the Ashanti Region, bringing the total number of the Schemes nationwide to 23. The two Schemes will create a total of 7,500 direct jobs for the indigenes. Mr. George Mireku Duker, a Deputy…

Mr. Saeed Muhazu Jibril, the Savannah Regional Minister, says the operation by the Military, the Regional Security Council, and the Minerals Commission to eradicate illegal miners on the Black Volta is ongoing. This follows an updated report the Regional Minister received from the Six Infantry Battalion of the Ghana Armed…

Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor says government has taken drastic, decisive and pre-emptive steps to protect the Black Volta from the destructive activities of illegal miners.