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Religious leaders call for ban on all small scale-mining activities
Religious leaders in the country have asked government to ban all small-scale mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ until a comprehensive workable road map is established to ensure…
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Targeting kingpins is among new strategies against galamsey
Government has introduced new measures in a renewed commitment in the fight against illegal small-scale mining popularly called galamsey.
The new measures include concurrent…
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Prosecute Akonta Mining Directors, halt all small-scale mining
The Media Coalition Against Galamsey has called on the Government to order small scale and surface mining activities to stop immediately to allow water bodies and forests to begin to…
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Dame: 187 jailed for galamsey in Eastern Region since 2017
A total of 187 persons charged in 48 cases have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for their involvement in illegal mining popularly called galamsey in the…
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2 jailed 20 years each for galamsey
They said unemployment and hunger pushed them into it
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Galamsey reminder: The imminent ecological and food disaster
Mr. President:
It is another Monday and the time for a reminder that Galamsey is destroying the country and that you need to act, and act quickly, to stem the looming and imminent…
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OSP investigates Bissue, Akonta Mining, Prof Frimpong-Boateng
Committee on corruption-related offences related to Galamsey
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Honouring our rivers to prick consciences against water pollution
Ghana is a nation of dreamers no doubt, but our collective imagination occasionally slips and betrays a nation without dreams.
I refer to slippages in the naming of important…
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Galamsey: Aerial video of water pollution, destruction alarming
Ghana has no problem with water sources. Rivers are among the most important sources of fresh water in the country.
However, contaminating the rivers will not only harm humans but…
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Ghana: Lithium mining set to start by 2024 to rake in $5bn
Australia-based Atlantic Lithium expects to begin production at what would be Ghana's first lithium mine by the second half of 2024, the company's interim chief executive told Reuters.…
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