When communities face the impacts of mining, access to justice often remains out of reach. Legal processes can be expensive, complex and inaccessible to many of the people most affected by environmental degradation, land disputes and human rights violations. To bridge this gap, the Building Resilient and Active Communities in Extractive Landscapes (BRACE) Project convened […]
A chilling confession has emerged in the tragic death of a four-year-old boy, whose body was retrieved from a well at Karlo in the Suaman District of the Western North Region. Akua Afriyie, the 23-year-old mother, has reportedly admitted to police that she intentionally dumped her son in the well to satisfy a condition set […]
A collaborative operation between the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) of the Forestry Commission (FC) and the Ghana Armed Forces has resulted in the seizure of 10 excavators, a bulldozer, and the arrest of four individuals involved in illegal mining within the Tano Anwia Forest Reserve in the Western North Region. The crackdown, carried out on […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has given an account of the principal activities being undertaken by his Government in the Western North Region in the last three and a half years of his tenure of office as President. According to President Akufo-Addo, as part of Government’s Agenda 111, which seeks to […]
The ruling New Patriotic Party in the Western North Region have bemoaned what it says is the profligacy and violence that characterized the just ended Parliamentary primaries of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). A statement issued by the NPP Western North Communications Directorate condemned what it says is the clear show of money not […]
Contrary to Principle 5 of the Public Services Commission Act that prohibits staff from taking part in political activities, two Senior officers of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have finally filed to contest in the forthcoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Aowin Constituency of the Western North Region. […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has presented a total of eight (8) vehicles to the Western Regional Co-ordinating Council, to help facilitate the smooth take off of the newly created region. The vehicles include 3 Nissan Patrol SUVs, and five pickup vehicles, were presented to the Western North Regional Minister, Hon. […]
