{"id":414197,"date":"2017-09-04T02:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T02:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/04\/govt-to-exploit-iron-ore-manganese-deposits-in-western-northern-regions-myjoyonline-com\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T02:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T02:27:56","slug":"govt-to-exploit-iron-ore-manganese-deposits-in-western-northern-regions-myjoyonline-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/04\/govt-to-exploit-iron-ore-manganese-deposits-in-western-northern-regions-myjoyonline-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to exploit iron ore, manganese deposits in Western, Northern regions\n&#8211; MyJoyOnline.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Government has indicated plans to strengthen the local steel industry to help create employment for the youth and grow the economy.<\/p>\n<p>This is to\u00a0be achieved\u00a0through exploitation of Iron Ore and Manganese deposits in the Northern and Western regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo announced this during a keynote address to open the Havard Africa Alumni Action Forum in Accra.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline.com_InArticle_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cFor our part in Ghana, we have set about prosecuting the agenda with the private sector at least one factory each in\u00a0our 216 districts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAddtionally, I think the time has come for Ghana to develop strategic industries out of its abundant natural resources of bauxite and iron ore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo said, \u201cWe intend to establish shortly an integrated aluminium development authority to assemble the relevant financial resources for the systematic exploitation and transformation of our bauxite into aluminium \u2013 the metal of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cBy the same token, we\u2019ve decided to exploit our substantial iron and manganese deposit situated in the Northern and Western regions of our country to build an integrated steel industry to serve the needs of our country and region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis process of economic and industrial transformation has to go along with ensuring that the most basic elements of social justice are met\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event which is the first of its kind in Ghana is part of activities to commemorate the 60<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary of the flagship international mason programme at Havard University which coincided with the Ghana\u2019s at 60 Celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The forum is under the theme \u201cre-imagining Africa: a call to Action&#8221; aims\u00a0at\u00a0initiating\u00a0conversations, foster relationships, develop recommendations and a set of policy advice to address the challenges that impact various sectors of Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has indicated plans to strengthen the local steel industry to help create employment for the youth and grow the economy. This is to\u00a0be achieved\u00a0through exploitation of Iron Ore and Manganese deposits in the Northern and Western regions of the country. President Akufo-Addo announced this during a keynote address to open the Havard Africa Alumni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":414198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov\u2019t to exploit iron ore, manganese deposits in Western, Northern regions - MyJoyOnline.com - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/04\/govt-to-exploit-iron-ore-manganese-deposits-in-western-northern-regions-myjoyonline-com\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gov\u2019t to exploit iron ore, manganese deposits in Western, Northern regions - MyJoyOnline.com - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Government has indicated plans to strengthen the local steel industry to help create employment for the youth and grow the economy. 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