{"id":222960,"date":"2026-02-06T00:29:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-800-acre-galamsey-land-reclaimed-at-nyakumase-commendable\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:29:50","slug":"ghana-800-acre-galamsey-land-reclaimed-at-nyakumase-commendable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-800-acre-galamsey-land-reclaimed-at-nyakumase-commendable\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: 800-Acre Galamsey Land Reclaimed At Nyakumase Commendable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">THE sight of young cassia and teak trees taking root on 800 acres of once devastated land at Nyankumase at Manso Adubia in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti region is more than an environmental milestone; it is a statement of intent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">After years in which illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, left deep scars across Ghana&#8217;s landscape, the reclamation of this site under President John Dramani Mahama&#8217;s renewed anti-galamsey drive offers a compelling reminder that recovery, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050493.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE sight of young cassia and teak trees taking root on 800 acres of once devastated land at Nyankumase at Manso Adubia in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti region is more than an environmental milestone; it is a statement of intent. After years in which illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, left deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[53589,258,256,14923,8108,4508,4509,6122,257,53591,53590,254],"class_list":["post-222960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-800acre","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commendable","tag-galamsey","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-land","tag-news","tag-nyakumase","tag-reclaimed","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}