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Download logo The World Bank approved $103.4 million for Ghana to reverse land degradation and strengthen integrated natural resource management in about 3 million hectares of degraded landscapes, working with communities of the Northern Savannah Zone and the cocoa forest landscape.  The cost of environmental degradation in Ghana due to unsustainable use of land for agriculture, […]

The Audit Service has, for the first time in 10 years, presented to Parliament all the 12 statutory Auditor-General’s Reports, including four performance audit reports required to be made available to the legislature by June 30, each year.

  Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia Monday opened the Regional Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining and Deforestation in Tamale with a call on participants to be candid in their deliberations to build consensus in tackling the menace. Dr Bawumia said: “Issues relating to the exploitation of our natural resources must be insulated from partisan politics.” “Therefore, the deliberations at this regional consultative dialogue must be candid so that we are able to build a broad-base...

  The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for an enhanced national dialogue on the sustainable exploitation of Ghana’s minerals, forest and wildlife resources to ensure that the lives of the living and generations yet unborn are not adversely affected by unregulated exploitation.  Warning that the nation risks losing its forest cover, as well as the many beautiful rivers and streams if negative practices such as illegal mining and indiscriminate wood harvesting and burning are n...

/ Jueves 8 de Julio, 2021 Foto: Andina 5706 y 5881 , que proponen ampliar el proceso de formalización minera, fueron aprobados en el Pleno del Congreso pese a opiniones en contra del Minam y Minem, así como de la Defensoría del Pueblo y la Fiscalía Especializada en Materia Ambiental. En carta enviada al presidente Francisco Sagasti, 15 organizaciones civiles piden que se observe la autógrafa de ley.   El pasado 30 de junio, el Pleno del Congreso aprobó los proyectos de ley 5706 y 5881, ...

The year 2020 has been a very challenging one for the extractive industry, a report by a financial consultancy firm, EMJ Advisory Firm says. EMJ Advisory Director Manuel Chisale told journalists at Mponela in Dowa on Thursday that the Covid-19 pandemic hit the industry hard as the disease took an unprecedented humanitarian and economic toll […]

Shoot And Kill Is The Best Solution To End Galamsey - George Ayisi Boateng

The Member of Parliament for Fanteakwa South, Kofi Okyere-Agyekum has said social media activist, Twene Jonas has a mental problem hence he should stop insulting Ghanaian leaders.

Nana Addo Pulse Ghana Earlier, the President called for a political consensus to help in the fight against galamsey. At the launch of the maiden national consultative dialogue on small-scale mining, he emphasized that winning the war against galamsey is non-negotiable. Determined to end the practice, the President said all hands must be on deck to help regardless of the political party one belongs to. "When I called for a national conver...

Graphic Online BY: Caroline Boateng 705 In the past week, Ghanaians have got to know that key political elements are sabotaging efforts at ending the pillaging effects of galamsey, directly or indirectly. At least, Mr Kennedy Agyepong, Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, stated that much, on one of his shows, the Hot Seat. Additionally, at a Regional Consultative Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining in May 2021, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, in comments before his speech, said the Ashanti Regional Min...