Dr Ken Ashigbey, Convener for the Media Coalition Against Illegal Mining, has attributed the rise in illegal mining to leadership failure. He stated that those tasked with curbing the menace ...
The Police Anti-galamsey Taskforce from the National Police Headquarters has arrested 17 suspects for illegal mining at Samreboi in the Western Region. The suspects, comprising seven Chinese nationals and ten ...
Professor Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), says restoring a water body polluted by illegal mining activities could cost Ghana no less than $300 ...
Dr Tony Aubynn, former Chief Executive of the Minerals Commission, Wednesday said alternative livelihood programmes in mining communities are demonstrably more effective for women than men. He called for gender-specific ...
Ghana's Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has sounded the alarm on the devastating impact of illegal mining on the country's forest reserves and water bodies. ...
Mr Kwabena Okyere-Darko Mensah, the Member of Parliament for Takoradi, has suggested to the government to install solar closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras along the country's rivers and other water bodies ...
Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Wednesday inaugurated an 18-member technical committee chaired by Professor Martin Oteng-Ababio to develop a blueprint to reform and sanitise ...
For the past decades, Nyaaba Dittoh, a 62-year-old smallholder farmer in the Nabdam District in the Upper East Region has engaged in subsistence farming to take care of his household. ...
Dr Steve Manteaw, the Co-Chair of the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), is calling on the state to provide the required budgetary resources for the fight against illegal mining ...
Parts of Aboi Nkwanta-Samreboi Road in the Wassa Amenfi West Municipality of the Western Region have been completely washed off. This is due to the increasing activities of illegal ...
