24 suspects arrested in dawn anti-galamsey swoop at Atewa Range Forest

Twenty-four suspected illegal miners have been arrested following a dawn operation by Rapid Response Teams (RRT) at the Atewa Range Forest in the Eastern Region on Monday, April 28. According to an operational update shared with officials, the coordinated raid began at about 3:30 am at Sagyimase, a community near the forest reserve, as authorities moved in to flush out persons engaged in illegal mining, widely known as galamsey.

By Caleb Ahinakwah