It has been months.” Her statement encapsulates the absurd tragedy: a community besieged by water scarcity in the heart of a rainy region, driven to pollute the very source that could save them. The ...

The Bonsa River in the village of Esuoso, found in the Western Region is ground zero for Ghana’s battle against illegal mining. The water body is dotted with locally assembled dredging machines ...

Bonsa — The Bonsa treatment plant in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region continues to record low water levels due to illegal mining activities on the River Bonsa. Records in early ...

The Bonsa Headworks, which provides 75% of the Western Region's Tarkwa-Nsueam Municipality with drinkable water, is closing, according to a statement from Ghana Water Limited (GWL). According to GWL, ...

Takoradi, Sept. 17, GNA — The National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) Task Force, has conducted an operation as part of the fight against illegal mining (galamsey) activities ...

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has temporarily shut down the Bonsa Headworks, a critical water production facility that supplies potable water to Tarkwa and its surrounding areas, due to ...

The Western Central Regional Police Command has arrested eleven persons suspected to be involved in illegal mining (galemsey) activities along the Bonsa River bank in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipility of ...

BONSASO, Ghana (Sept. 14, 2010)—The Ghanaian government has begun the process of selling its 100-percent stake in Bonsa Tyre Co. Ltd. as part of its ongoing privatization program. The government said ...

Mr Gilbert Kennedy Asmah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Tarkwa Nsueam has indicated that revenue collection at the Bonsa toll booth has started and was on trial for a period of one month. He ...