The Forestry Commission has delivered a major blow to the galamsey menace after arresting 21 individuals, 11 Chinese nationals and 10 Ghanaians, during a high-intensity, intelligence-led operation inside the vast Yakombo Forest Reserve in the Savannah Region.
The raid, carried out on December 2, mobilized...
Ghana's government has taken firm action against Akonta Mining Company Ltd., which is purportedly owned by Bernard Antwi Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi, the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Ashanti regional chairman. Since the company's mining operations in the protected Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve...