Echoes of Sorrow: Digya National Park

A year after evictions in Digya National Park, residents lives far from normal

Around noon on a cloudy day, a group of villagers from Mepekope, one of 49 settlements in Digya National Park, got into a small canoe and cut across the waters of Lake Volta, en route to a neighbouring settlement.

The mix of men and women, including Mepekope?s chief and his brother, sat in silence as the boat cut through the calm, glass-like water, slowly puttering past dozens of partially submerged dead trees.

They were headed to Ahokpedzi to be briefed on the progress of a court battle, one year in the making, between the residents of the park, the forestry commission and the attorney general?s office.

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