ABURI Justin Evans Black Jersey , Ghana, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Ghana expects its miningreform program to make the mining sector a leading catalyst ofeconomic development, Coordinator of the Multi-Modal IntegratedProject (MMIP) Isaac Karikari said.
According to him, mining is also expected to boost thelivelihoods of mineral-rich communities and eliminate child laborin mining.
Speaking to Xinhua on Friday during a two-day National MultiStakeholder Workshop on the African Mining Vision, Karikariexplained that job creation, especially in mining communities O. J. Howard Black Jersey ,would be the key economic benefits Ghana could derive from theimplementation of the project.
The project, which is expected to cost 200 million U.S. dollars,will see the Ghanaian government funding 20 percent whiledevelopment partners provide 50 percent of the total, with the restcoming from Public Private Partnership (PPP) sources.
""A strong capacity building is another key content in the reformprogram with the Minerals Commission, Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA), Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) Carlton Davis Black Jersey , and WaterResources Commission as part of the implementing agencies,""Karikari said.
The five-year project to be launched by President NanaAkufo-Addo next month has five components, namely review andenforcement of legal and regulatory regime, reclaiming degradedlands, dredging silted water bodies, and free lands foragribusiness.
It also has a social intervention component that will facilitatelivelihoods creation in mining communities.
""The social interventions component seeks to eliminate the worstforms of child labor M.J. Stewart Black Jersey , eliminate prostitution and teenage pregnancyin mining communities, eliminate conflicts in land use, eliminatemine-related accidents and pre-mature deaths in mining,"" thecoordinator said.
The environmental and health benefits, according to Karikari,include: ""reversing the pollution of water bodies Ronald Jones II Black Jersey , reverse theuncontrolled use of mercury in mining, reduce the excessive landdegradation as a result of mining as well as reduce thedeforestation and loss of farms to mining.""
According to him, the project document being developed throughthe Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Minerals Commissionand the JFK Consultant was completed and going for printing.Enditem
" " North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pictured during a visit to the Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science in this undated photo released by North Korea’s KCNA news agency in Pyongyang yesterday. — Reuters
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The report carried by the KCNA news agency lacked the traditionally robust threats against the United States after weeks of unbridled acrimony, and US President Donald Trump expressed optimism about a possible improvement in relations.
“I respect the fact that he is starting to respect us,” Trump said of Kim at a raucous campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Kim was briefed about the process of manufacturing intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) warhead tips and solid-fuel rocket engines during his tour of the Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science, KCNA said.
“He instructed the institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips by further expanding engine production process and the production capacity of rocket warhead tips and engine jets by carboncarbon compound material,” KCNA said.
North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests and dozens of missile tests since the beginning of last year, significantly raising tension on the heavily militarized Korean Peninsula and in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. Two ICBM tests in July resulted in a new round of tougher global sanctions.
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Tillerson, however, noted what he called the restraint North Korea had shown and said on Tuesday that he hoped a path could be opening for dialogue.
The KCNA report said Kim had given “special thanks and special bonus” to officials of the institute, calling them heroes. A photograph showed Kim in a gray pinstriped suit, smiling before a large flow chart describing some kind of manufacturing process.
There was none of the fiery rhetoric of recent weeks, when Kim had threatened to fire missiles into the sea near the US Pacific territory of Guam after Trump warned North Korea it would face “fire and fury” if it threatened the US.
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The US Treasury designated six Chinese-owned entities, one Russian, one North Korean and two based in Singapore. They included a Namibia-based subsidiary of a Chinese company and a North Korean entity operating in Namibia.
China said the US should “immediately correct its mistake” of imposing unilateral sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals.
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