A global treaty that seeks to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury has from today, August 16, come into force. Ghana’s environmental group, Abibiman...
Medical personnel at the Central Regional hospital have observed that there is an obvious link between illegal mining and kidney failure. This disclosure was made by the hospital authorities after...
Government has disclosed it will ban the importation of mercury to augment efforts to curb the impact of illegal mining activities in the country. The move is expected to take effect by the end of...
Madam Christine Evans-Klock, the United Nations Coordinator in Ghana, has commended the Government’s efforts to improve the regulation of small-scale mining and end Galamsey. The move is to protect...
United Nations Coordinator in Ghana, Christine Evans-Klock, has commended the Government’s efforts to improve the regulation of small-scale mining and end Galamsey. The move is to protect...
In Ghana the mere mention of illegal small scale mining provokes unfounded accusations. The situation has led to disputing rightly formulated and comprehensive measures to tackle the menace galamsey...
Friends of the Nation (FoN), an environmental non-governmental organisation has commended the Government for ratifying the Minamata Convention on Mercury. The Minamata Convention on Mercury is a...
People living in Ghana’s mining communities may now be better protected from deadly mercury poisoning. On March 23, Ghana ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury – a real step forward for...
A socio-environmental advocacy NGO based in the Western Region, the Friends of the Nation (FoN), has urged government to rope in relevant stakeholders in its bid to reduce and eliminate the use of...
A research to assess the effect of excessive use of mercury in gold extraction on artisanal miners and residents of mining communities in Ghana is currently underway. The miners are said to be...
Friends of the Nation, a socio-economic advocacy NGO in the Western Region, has started a regional consultative stakeholder engagement seeking to promote the use of new technologies in place of...
Ghana, together with other countries, will, by 2020, ban the production, exportation and importation of some mercury-containing products. The products include dry cell batteries, switches and relays,...
Toxins can wreak havoc on your body and cause many illnesses from headaches to cancer. In order to stay 100% healthy we all need to detoxify regularly. Toxins create disease and they are everywhere:...
So I’ve been away for the past few days contributing my quota as an engineer to Ghana’s Oil & Gas sector. My little escapade took me hundreds of feet into the sky to the destination I was headed...
