Unfortunately, in the past few years, illegal and irresponsible mining practices and illegal mining (aka Galamsey), have left unspeakable devastation in most of the country.
Environmental pollution caused by heavy metals, such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, and
mercury are very harmful to human health, animals, plants and life continuity in the
surrounding environment.
Local women in Egila (Gwira Dominase) in the Nzema East district of Ghana have expressed concern over the continued destruction of the Ankobra river from irresponsible mining in their communities.
In the absence…
Executive Director of Ghana Environmental Advocacy Group shares her thoughts on Ghana's illegal mining problem, complicity of Ghanaian security forces and other officials in the galamsey destruction and the sentence meted down to…
On a humid March morning, when Ghanaians woke up to the news showing some personnel of the Ghana Police Service begging a handful of alleged gang members for their lives in what seemed…