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Asantehene to open Regional Consultative Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining LISTEN MAY 11, 2021 Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will on Wednesday, May 12, open the first Ashanti Regional Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining in Kumasi. The Regional Dialogue follows the recently held National Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining in Accra from April 14 to 15, 2021, which was opened by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. A statement issued by the Public Relations Unit of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources said the objective of the dialogue was to decentralise the stakeholder consultation. It wil...

  The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will on Wednesday, May 12, open the first Ashanti Regional Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining in Kumasi. The Regional Dialogue follows the recently held National Dialogue on Small-Scale Mining in Accra from April 14 to 15, 2021, which was opened by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. A statement issued by the Public Relations Unit of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources said the objective of the dialogue was to decentralise the stakeholder consultation. It will provide the opportunity to make inputs in the national discourse on the regularisation...

  The Ghana Armed Forces on Friday deployed 400 soldiers of all ranks to begin the second phase of 'Operation Halt' to rid the country's water bodies of illegal miners. The operation is aimed at removing all persons and logistics involved in mining on the water bodies. In a statement signed and issued by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in Accra on Friday, said the second phase of the exercise would focus on the tributaries of Pra River, which were significantly affected by the activities of illegal miners. The military, the statement said, had also begun armed patrols of the Pra ...

  The Ghana Armed Forces on Friday deployed 400 soldiers of all ranks to begin the second phase of 'Operation Halt' to rid the country's water bodies of illegal miners. The operation is aimed at removing all persons and logistics involved in mining on the water bodies. In a statement signed and issued by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in Accra on Friday, said the second phase of the exercise would focus on the tributaries of Pra River, which were significantly affected by the activities of illegal miners. The military, the statement said, had also begun armed patrols of the Pra ...

Bernard Allotey Jacobs has charged all Ghanaians to join the battle against illegal miners in the country. Illegal miners' activities have destroyed the country's forest reserves, waterbodies and the communities they operate. As a result, there are incessant calls for action to be taken against illegal mining, also called galamsey. The President has deployed 200 soldiers to remove all persons and mining logistics from Ghana’s waterbodies. The operation started on River Pra in the Central and Western Regions. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Minister of Information, Kojo Opp...