Small-scale miners urge government to enforce laws, devoid of ban
A group of concerned small-scale miners has called on the government to enforce existing laws regulating their industry instead of ...
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Tag: Galamsey
UTAG threatens to embark on strike over Galamsey menace
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has demanded an immediate national ban on illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. ...
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Otumfuo urges collective action against illegal mining, praises GBA President’s stance on Galamsey
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has commended the President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Yaw Acheampong Boafo, for ...
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76 persons have been convicted for illegal mining since 2021 – Godfred Dame
Minister of Justice and Attorney-General (AG), Godfred Yeboah Dame has disclosed that seventy-two individuals including eighteen foreign nationals have been ...
Read moreGunshots fired as Akyem Asuom youth storm Galamsey sites, 4 Foremen arrested
The youth of Akyem Asuom in the Kwaebibirem Municipality of the Eastern Region on Sunday stormed five illegal mining (galamsey) ...
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Our next action against Galamsey will shock gov’t if they fail to ban it – GMA
President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Frank Serebour, has revealed that the joint press statement released by the ...
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Prof. Charles Marfo Calls for “shoot and Kill” approach to end Illegal Mining
The Provost of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor ...
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Over 100,000 acres of Cocoa farms destroyed by illegal mining – Farmers Association
The Mankrom Cocoa Cooperative Farmers Association has revealed that over 100,000 acres of cocoa farms have been destroyed due to ...
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Yaw Nsarkoh writes: Illegal mining and the delamination of Ghana’s Gold Coast
It was simply too much to bear, for many people, and definitely for me, to see the lifeless bodies of ...
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Galamsey: Ban small-scale mining now – GMA, other unions to Akufo-Addo
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) and several other health unions and associations have urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to ...
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