The Brong Ahafo Region, formerly a part of the Ashanti Region, was created in April 1959. It covers an area of 39,557 square kilometres and shares boundaries with the Northern Region to the north, the Ashanti and Western Regions to the south, the Volta Region to the east, the Eastern Region to the southeast and La Cote d’Ivoire to the west.
It has 22 administrative districts, with Sunyani as the regional capital. The region lies in the forest zone and is a major cocoa and timber producing area. The northern part of the region lies in the savannah zone and is a major grain- and tuber-producing region. The region has a population of 1,815,408, indicating an intercensal growth rate of 2.5 per cent over the 1984 population figure. Enumeration covered all the 17,546 localities in the region .
These 22 Municipal/districts are headed by Chief Executives who, in turn, are under the political and administrative jurisdiction of the Regional Minister.
The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Kwasi Oppong-Ababio, has appealed to residents in the municipality to bury their political differences and initiate self-help projects to attract support from the assembly.
The Biadan Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Kwaku Yeboah has called on Ghanaians to have confidence in President John Evans Atta Mills and ignore the schemes and ploys adopted by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to make the government unpopular.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is undertaking a socio-economic survey and an inventory of second-hand refrigerators, electronic waste (e-waste) and electrical appliances on the market.
Rising underground water has destroyed 10 houses with 25 others at risk of collapsing posing danger to their inhabitants at Kokroko, a town in the Techiman Municipality.
The Deputy Minister of Information, Honorable James Agyenim Boateng has paid a familiarization visit to the Tano South District and educated the public on government policies and programmes and also acquainted himself with problems affecting the District.
HIV/AIDS is on the increase in the Brong-Ahafo Region as “Sentinel Reports” indicates an increment from 2.6 per cent in 2008 to 2.9 per cent in 2009, the Regional Minister, Hon.Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, has said.
COCOBOD will soon tar a major access road linking Nkwantaso to Nkrankwanta in Dormaa Municipality to facilitate easy access and conveyance of cocoa as part of its rehabilitation of cocoa roads in cocoa districts.
