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BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Accra, Ghana- A NUMBER of cocoa farmers at Kwahu West Municipality in the Eastern Region are gradually losing their cocoa farms to galamsey activities being perpetuated by some foreigners nationals. Information gathered indicates that these foreign nationals have pitched camp in some communities and engaging in illegal mining popularly known as galamsey destroying over 1000 acres of cocoa farms. The most affected areas are Essaase, Adumasua, Yaakorkor, Ahantanan and surrounding communities, sold out their cocoa farms to these galamsey operators who use gold detector machines for easy identification. These illegal miners operate within the cocoa farms and the dangers of this operation is that, almost all the cocoa trees do not lust longer days...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) is chip in more than $ 13 million to a $ 53 million funding package that will aid the construction of a landmark hydroelectric plant in central Nepal. IFC – a member of the World Bank Group is the group that arranges for the debt package, which includes eight other lenders. And is one of the largest Foreign Direct Investments in Nepal’s history. This will serve as an increment to Nepal’s electricity supply by one-third from today’s levels and provide clean, reliable power to some nine million people. The funding is being prepared to Nepal’s privately-owned Water and Energy Development Company. The firm will develop and operate a 216 MW, run of the...

BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Accra- Ghana Health Service has giving the assurance that the outbreak of the H3N2 flu also known as seasonal flu or the Varian Virus disease is contained. Last weekend, there were report that over 400 students were quarantined in three secondary schools in the Eastern Region over the outbreak of the H3N2 Flu in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality. The schools affected included Krobo Girls Senior High School, Akuse Methodist Senior High Technical School (AMEST) and Legacy College – a private School were all quarantined for treatment. Speaking to the media, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Badu Sarkodie said a team of medical experts were sent to the region to handle the situation adding that measures are in place to contain...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- KENYAN President Uhuru Kenyatta was treated with a great respect and deference during the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) 2019 Business Summit held at United Nations Complex in Gigiri. In a videotaped shared by AmCham , an official of the summit presenting Uhuru with the award; details that, the Southern nation’s president – Uhuru Kenyatta paradigm regional diplomatic and economic leadership in Africaenthra, enthralled the US organization – AmCham on 4th November, this year the awe of recognition for the head of state. “The award recognizes Uhuru Kenyatta as the Champion of free enterprise on behalf of the Kenyan business workers since taking office in 2013,” an official in the summit...