Asutifi District is one of the Twenty two (22) districts in Brong Ahafo. It is located between latitudes 6°40’ and 7°15’ North and Longitudes 2°15’ and 2°45’ West. The district capital is Kenyasi, which is about 50km from Sunyani, the regional capital of Brong Ahafo, through Atronie and Ntotroso. It shares boundaries with Sunyani Municipal in the North, Tano South District to the North East, Dormaa Municipal to North West, Asunafo North Municipal and Asunafo South District in the South West and Ahafo Ano South and North Districts (Ashanti Region) in the South East.
With a total land surface area of 1500 sq.km, the district is one of the smallest in the Brong Ahafo Region. There are a total of 117 settlements in the district and four paramouncies, namely: Kenyasi No.1 Kenyasi No.2, Hwidiem and Acherensua.
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) last Friday handed over a fully furnished 2-Unit semi-detached nurses’ quarters worth over GH¢60,438.84 to the Asutifi North District Assembly at Yawusukrom in the Brong Ahafo Region.
Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation (NADeF), has awarded scholarships estimated at about GH¢1,638,460 to 1,455 students in the mine take communities during the 2012/2013 academic year.
A durbar was held at Donkorkrom in the Asutifi District in the Brong-Ahafo Region on Thursday to celebrate the abolition of a taboo that forbade women from giving birth in the community.
Newmont Ghana’s Ahafo Mine, has handed over a US$477,000 Small Town Water System to the chiefs and people of Kenyasi No. I & II to help meet the increasing water demands of the two communities.
Residents of communities hosting Newmont Gold Ghana Limited in Ahafo in the Brong Ahafo region should have no cause to worry over the harm done to their lands due to mining activities as the company has taken effective measures to reclaim the mined lands.
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