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Create Other Livelihoods For Illegal Miners – CSO

A Civil Society Group, Banfu Africa Research Institute (BARI) has asked Government to provide a blue print in terms of...

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Chinese Gov’t To Provide Fund To Sanitize ‘galamsey’ Mining

The Chinese government is willing to give Ghana a grant to fund its intended multilateral mining integrated project,...

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Chinese Gov’t To Offer Grant For Ghana’s Alternative Livelihood Prog. For Illegal Miners

The Chinese government is willing to give Ghana a grant to fund its intended multilateral mining integrated project,...

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Akufo-Addo Forms Akan Government

Contrary to President Akufo-Addo’s pledge to “preserve, protect and defend the constitution” and to “do right...

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Galamseyers Vacate Sites; Chinese Beg

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government appears to be winning the fight against illegal mining, popularly known as...

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Minister To Transfer Mines Inspector Found Drunk During ‘galamsey’ Site Tour

A mines inspector was found ‘heavily drunk’ during a ministerial tour of the Eastern region booming with illegal...

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544 Excavators Abandon Galamsey Sites – Minerals Commission

About 544 excavators have voluntarily moved out of their hideouts at separate illegal mining sites, following the...

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Security Agencies Will Flush Out Galamsey Operators – Lands Minister

The Lands and Natural Resources Minister says the government will deploy law enforcement officers across the country to...

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Ministerial Task-Force Tours Galamsey Sites [Photos]

A ministerial task-force has toured some illegal mining sites in the Eastern Region, as government’s three-weeks...

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544 Excavators Moved From Galamsey Sites

About 544 excavators have been moved out of their hideouts at separate illegal mining sites, following the expiration...

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544 Excavators Abandon Galamsey Sites

About 544 excavators have so far left their hideouts in illegal mining sites following the expiration of an ultimatum...

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You Can Vote Us Out In 2020 Over Galamsey Fight–Minister

Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu Bio, has reiterated the Akufo-Addo administration’s...

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The War Against Galamsey Must Not Stop!

TOMORROW (Thursday), April 20, 2017 will mark the expiration of the twenty-one-day ultimatum given by the Lands and...

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Galamsey Will Not Stop Because of Poverty, Greed – Group

The illicit mining menace in Ghana, popularly called galamsey, will not end soon because of widespread poverty among...

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You Can Vote Us Out In 2020 Over Galamsey Fight

A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu Bio, has reiterated the Akufo-Addo administration’s...

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Minister Unfazed As Illegal Miners Threaten To Vote Out NPP If…

Galamsey operators at Akwatia in the Eastern Region have threatened to vote the NPP-led government out if it implements...

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Illegal Miners Surrender To Govt’s 3-Wk Ultimatum

About 50 excavators are being sent from gold-mining town Prestea in the Western Region to Accra as a sign of compliance...

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Illegal Miners Surrender To Govt’s 3-Week Ultimatum

Civil Society groups has since rise in support of media campaign against Galamsey About 50 excavators are being sent...

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Akufo-Addo Unveils Anti-Galamsey Strategy This Week

President Nana Akufo-Addo will this week unveil government’s strategy to deal with the menace of illegal mining in...