Government To Review Mining Laws
The government intends amending legislation on mining to include medium-scale mining activities, Benito Owusu-Bio, Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural ...
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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 ...
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, which seeks ...
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, which seeks ...
Akufo-Addo Forms Akan Government
Contrary to President Akufo-Addo’s pledge to “preserve, protect and defend the constitution” and to “do right to all manner of ...
Galamseyers Vacate Sites; Chinese Beg
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government appears to be winning the fight against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, as ...
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 mining popularly ...
544 Excavators Abandon Galamsey Sites – Minerals Commission
About 544 excavators have voluntarily moved out of their hideouts at separate illegal mining sites, following the expiration of an ...
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 apprehend defiant ...
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 ultimatum to the miners ...
544 Excavators Moved From Galamsey Sites
About 544 excavators have been moved out of their hideouts at separate illegal mining sites, following the expiration of an ultimatum ...
544 Excavators Abandon Galamsey Sites
About 544 excavators have so far left their hideouts in illegal mining sites following the expiration of an ultimatum given ...
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 resolve to win the war ...
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 Natural Resources ...
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 Ghanaians in ...
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 resolve to win the ...
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 its ...
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 ...
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 from ...
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 the country ...