Mercury
Illegal Mining and Kidney Failure
Medical personnel at the Central Regional hospital have observed that there is an obvious link between illegal mining...
Gov’t To Ban Mercury Imports By End of Year
Government has disclosed it will ban the importation of mercury to augment efforts to curb the impact of illegal mining...
UN Commends Ghana’s Efforts To Curb Illegal Mining
Madam Christine Evans-Klock, the United Nations Coordinator in Ghana, has commended the Government’s efforts to...
Anti-Galamsey Campaign Gets UN Commendation
United Nations Coordinator in Ghana, Christine Evans-Klock, has commended the Government’s efforts to improve the...
It’s Impacts On Health and the Environment; the Way Forward
In Ghana the mere mention of illegal small scale mining provokes unfounded accusations. The situation has led to...
Organisation Lauds Ghana For Ratifying Mercury Convention
Friends of the Nation (FoN), an environmental non-governmental organisation has commended the Government for ratifying...
Ghana Ratifies Mercury Convention
People living in Ghana’s mining communities may now be better protected from deadly mercury poisoning. On March 23,...
FoN Urges Gov’t To Stop Use of Mercury In Gold Mining
A socio-environmental advocacy NGO based in the Western Region, the Friends of the Nation (FoN), has urged government...
Researchers Assess Harmful Effects of Mercury Use On Small-Scale Miners
A research to assess the effect of excessive use of mercury in gold extraction on artisanal miners and residents of...
NGO Pushes For Technology To Replace Use of Mercury
Friends of the Nation, a socio-economic advocacy NGO in the Western Region, has started a regional consultative...
Ghana To Ban Production, Import of Mercury Products By 2020
Ghana, together with other countries, will, by 2020, ban the production, exportation and importation of some...
We Are All Toxic
Toxins can wreak havoc on your body and cause many illnesses from headaches to cancer. In order to stay 100% healthy we...
A Curse In A Mess?
So I’ve been away for the past few days contributing my quota as an engineer to Ghana’s Oil & Gas sector. My little...