The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment intends to vigorously defend the rights of the country’s indigenous people in light of reports of unwanted mining and other means of trespassing in Amerindian villages, particularly at Isseneru.The Ministry was referring to a recent incident where the Akawaio Amerindians from Isseneru village, Region Seven,
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