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Youth advised to engage in agriculture

Solidaridad West Africa, a non-profit organisation committed to creating sustainable business livelihoods, has embarked on a health walk aimed at promoting agriculture among the youth in the country.

The walk, which took place last Friday in Accra, was also held to commemorate the company’s 50th anniversary, as well as promote healthy living among its staff. The walk began at about 7 a.m. with…

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#Africa #agriculture #food #food security #Ghana #youth

Environmental Journalists’ Group Protests against Coal-Plant Establishment in Ghana

Photo credit: Mark Henley/Zuma Press

A journalist group in Ghana, Media Advocates for Sustainable Environment (MASE) is taking on the managers of Ghana’s electricity Company-Volta River Authority (VRA) over plans to construct a coal-fired plant in Ghana.

The public energy company is partnering with one of its Chinese partners, Shenzhen Energy Group Co. Ltd of China (SEC) construct a…

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#Africa #China pollution #climate change #coal-fired plant #Ghana #Ghana. Ghana government #global warming #mineral commission #US embassies

“The Cost of Gold: Chinese Coy Defiles Mineral Commission’s Orders, Undermines Community Rights

Note: this story was first published by the Enquirer newspaper (Friday 14th November 2014)

By: Francis Npong, Gbane U/E

one of the mine shafts in the middle of a community Photo: Francis Npong

On August 10, 2009 the chief of Gbane, a farming community in the Talensi District in the Upper East Region of Ghana, Naba Porbortaaba Nabil thumb-printed a document without knowing it content.

Unknown to…

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#Africa #agriculture in Ghana #available resources in Ghana #Cadero Resourses #Canada police investigate company #Canadian government #Canadian mounted police #Cardero Canada #corruption in Ghana #EPA Ghana #mineral commission #mining in Ghana #mining law in Ghana #Shaanxi Mining Ghana

Sheini Iron Ore: MPs task Mineral Commission to Investigate Mining Coys

Dr.Toni Aubynn, chief Executive officer, Mineral Commission

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy and Mines have put pressure of the Mineral Commission of Ghana to investigate the activities of Cardero Ghana and Emmaland Resources limited.

The two mining companies formed a joint partnership for the purposes of securing licenses to develop Sheini Iron Ore located in Sheini in the…

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#bribery #Cardero Canada #CEO Mineral Commission #Dr. Toni Aubynn #Emmalands Resources #investigate Cardero #mineral commission #mining in Ghana #MPs #Shieni Iron ore

From: Francis Npong, Denmark Denmark (Kingdom) has a long tradition of ambitious and climate… http://wp.me/s44Ls8-108

From: Francis Npong, Denmark

Denmark (Kingdom) has a long tradition of ambitious and climate policies and credited as being the greenest country on earth. It is a sovereign state in Northern Europe, located south-west of Sweden, south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany.

The Kingdom has two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Faroe…

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