Residents view two of the five new projects—a teachers’ lodgeGanglota, Lofa County – A committee that represents the interest of 10 communties in Salayea and Zorzor Districts in Lofa in a logging contract with Alpha Logging Company has completed five new projects from funds provided by the company. The five new projects make it eight major projects done by the Community Forestry Development Committee (CFDC) from the Forestry Management Contract with Alpha Logging Company (FMC “A”) since the agreement was signed in 2009. Communities’ right to forestlands and benefits from forest resources is a pillar of the forestry reform process that began in 2005. At a dedicatory ceremony of the teachers’ lodge in Ganglota on recently—one of the 10 affected communities—Augustus Kwalah, chairman of the committee said all the projects projects were being managed by the CFDC. “I can assure you Alpha Logging Company will be here.

Source: Front Page Africa April 16, 2019 23:48 UTC