A/R: Kasotie galamsey pit collapse kills seven, 5 critically injured
A night-time illegal mining operation at Kasotie in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region has ended in tragedy ...
Tag: Galamsey
Mahama turns to dialogue over AI in fresh galamsey strategy
President John Dramani Mahama will sit down with civil society organizations Friday to tackle Ghana’s illegal mining crisis, in what ...
Mahama invites CSO’s for Galamsey engagement
President John Dramani Mahama has extended an invitation to Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) for a high-level engagement on the pressing ...
Chocolate Rivers, Arsenic Kontomire, and the Politics of Excuses
Once upon a time in the Republic of Uncommon Sense, rivers no longer quenched thirst—they served chocolate drink. Not the ...
Agbogbloshie traders reject report linking food crops to mercury contamination
Traders at the Agbogbloshie Market in Accra have rejected findings from a recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
C/R: Three killed in Galamsey pit collapse
Three young men lost their lives in the early hours of Thursday when an illegal mining pit collapsed at Twifo ...
Gov’t to declare river bodies and forests security zones
The government has announced plans to declare all rivers and forests in Ghana as security zones as part of a ...
FixTheCountry threatens legal action if govt fails to act on galamsey
The Fixthecountry movement has warned it is prepared to resort to legal measures if government fails to respond to their ...
GMA warns of emerging medical complications due to rising galamsey activities
Ghana’s premier medical association has intensified warnings about groundwater contamination from illegal mining, describing the environmental crisis as an existential ...
Declare state of emergency in response to rising Galamsey activities – Dr. Sekou Nkrumah
Dr Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has urged the government to declare a state of ...
