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The second phase of Operation Halt, an enhanced exercise to rid the country’s water bodies and forest of activities of illegal miners (galamsey) has ended.

  Residents of Datano and its environs in the Manso District of the Ashanti Region have appealed to the President to as a matter of urgency stop mining on the Offin River. The activities of the miners have polluted the River, their source of water, resulting in continuous water shortages in the areas, they said. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mr Atta Yaw, a farmer, stated that farming had become unattractive in those areas due to lack of water for irrigation. Manso-Keneago, Manso-Asaman, Manso-Datano, were some of towns he mentioned as the affected. He explained that the miners dra...