Residents of Kunkua- Jadima communities along Yagaba in the Mamprugu Moagduri District of North East Region have threatened to boycott December 7 elections if government fails to fix their road and bridge culvert. They said the government’s refusal to fix their road, which has been abandoned for four years now, is hampering development. An abandoned
Green Gold Farms Ghana (GGF) has broken ground for the cultivation of soya beans on its 40,000-acre farm in Sakpei, a community in the Mion District of the Northern Region. The project is valued at US$ 20 million and is said to be one of the biggest in the region. The project is
It has been alleged that the government is seeking a court order for Permit Holders, Contractors in the rosewood business to collect and salvage dry lying logs that were abandoned during a ban on illegal rosewood logging and transportation on March 11, 2019, by the Minister for Lands and Natural resources. Even before that alleged
Environment across the world today is being celebrated with a bleeding heart as the environment weeps and cry for conservation. The pain of rejection, Dejection, Loneliness, name-calling, castigation, stigmatization, and discrediting from my people is what I go through. No one trusts me, No one believes me. My people and kingdom have rejected me because
Jaksally Development Organization has raised concerns over the continuous destruction of women's livelihood by charcoal and rosewood dealers across the Northern part of the country. According to the organization, almost all the economic trees that serve as a source of livelihood and food mostly for the vulnerable in society, especially women, have been destroyed by
The Programme Coordinator of Jaksally Development Organization based in Bole in the Savannah Region Mr. Seidu Jeremiah has raised concerns over the failure of the Traditional Authorities in Gonjaland in their bid to the fight against commercial charcoal burning in the area. He said the continuous disregard by the chiefs to enforce the bans which
22 people have been arrested in Tumu in the Sissala West and East Districts of the Upper West Region by joint security personnel for various offences in the forest reserves. Their arrest is in connection with unlawful entry, illegal farming, cattle ranching, illegal logging, and many other illegal activities going on the forest reserves along
Some major source of drinking water in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region has been dried up as residents blamed the situation over the depletion of the forest by illegal rosewood loggers. Rivers and streams that are the major source of drinking water for all year round for these residents especially kundugu,
There are calls on government by residents of Bawiesebe and Civil Society Organizations to immediately deploy security personnel to the Wa East District of the Upper West Region which is the exit point and hotspot zone for rosewood activities to monitor the illegal movement of rosewoods in that parts of the district during dusk to
The Programme Coordinator of Jaksally Development Organization an NGO based in the Savannah Region and a Rosewood Campaigner, Mr. Seidu Jeremiah has observed that, the value of rosewood in Ghana and Savannah Ecological Zone is being thrown away to China by contributing to China’s economic growth through harvesting and exportation of logs/Billets (unprocessed rosewood). He
