{"id":18000,"date":"2026-10-19T16:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=18000"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:09:18","slug":"gh%c2%a2200m-earmarked-for-reclamation-of-5000-acres-ravaged-by-galamsey-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=18000","title":{"rendered":"GH\u00a2200m earmarked for reclamation of 5,000 acres ravaged by galamsey \u2013 Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">President John Dramani Mahama has announced a GH\u00a2200 million allocation to reclaim 5,000 acres of land degraded by illegal mining, with the programme expected to begin in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Mining in Motion Conference on Monday, October 19, he said illegal mining had destroyed approximately 12,000 acres of land across the country, making reclamation a key part of efforts to restore affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGH\u00a2200 million has been allocated for the reclamation of 5,000 acres of land starting next year [2027],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama also disclosed that work was underway to reclaim 253 acres of land degraded in the Tano Nimri Forest under a contract awarded by the Ghana Gold Board to the Ghana Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-anno-skip google-anno-sc\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" aria-label=\"Ghana travel guide\" data-google-vignette=\"false\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">Ghana travel guide<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThat work is ongoing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has announced a GH\u00a2200 million allocation to reclaim 5,000 acres of land degraded by illegal mining, with the programme expected to begin in 2027. Speaking at the Mining in Motion Conference on Monday, October 19, he said illegal mining had destroyed approximately 12,000 acres of land across the country, making reclamation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":17967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18001,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000\/revisions\/18001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}