Mining in Ghana

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‘Allow Us To Work Else All Die Be Die’ – Small Scale Mining Group To Akufo-Addo

Members of a small scale mining group in the country have issued a three-day ultimatum to the government to allow them...

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Ghana Immigration Service Boss ‘hot’ Over ‘Galamsey Queen’

A leaked audio tape purported to have been recorded by assigns of the Chinese galamsey queen, Aisha Haung, has put the...

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Small Scale Miners To Demonstrate Against Gov’t’s Plan To Ban Small Scale Mining

Small scale miners in Ghana are threatening to hit the streets with a massive demonstration if government goes ahead to...

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We’ll Demonstrate If…

Small scale miners in Ghana are threatening to hit the streets with a massive demonstration if government goes ahead to...

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Galamseyer Invokes ‘Antoa Nyama’ On President Akufo-Addo

The man whose earthmoving equipment was torched by some angry youth at Abekoase in the Atiwa district of the Eastern...

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We’ll Deal Decisively With Aisha Huang Despite Threats – Amewu

The Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu has said that his outfit determined to decisively apply the...

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Give Mining Sector Agencies Prosecution Powers

A civil society group, Center for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) is advocating for agencies in charge of mining activities...

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Galamsey Queen Heavily Sponsored NDC Campaigns

A former house help to Chinese illegal mining kingpin is accusing his former boss heavily funding electioneering...

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Prosecute Powerful Persons Behind Galamsey – Kobina Nketsia

Powerful persons involved in illegal mining activities should be prosecuted, Paramount Chief of Essikadu Traditional...

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OccupyGhana Petitions AG Over ‘leaked’ Charges Against Aisha Huang, Others

Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has petitioned the Attorney-General (A-G) over what it claims to be minor charges...

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Causes, Effects and Solutions

Illegal mining strips some 28 billion tons of material from the earth The high incidence of "galamsey" or illegal...

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‘Gov’t Must Engage Galamsayers’

An advocacy group, National Youth for Peace (NYfP), has called on government to, as a matter of urgency, engage all...

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NDC Trying Hard To Tarnish My Image

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako has denied claims by the...

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IGP Urged To Create Environmental Police To Fight Galamsey

A leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Inspector-General of Police...

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We’re Not Against Chinese – Nana Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo is not happy with the impression being created as though government and for that matter Ghanaians...

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Is Mr. Minister An Illegal Miner?

File photo: Ghana has launched a campaign against illegal mining activities For some time now in the media is the...

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Detention of Aisha Huang; A Case of Rule of Law Or Hypocrisy

Detention of Aisha Huang; A case of rule of law or hypocrisy Aisha Hueng is the Chinese National at the center of the...

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Okyehene To Sue Anyone Who Links Him To Galamsey

The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, has served notice that he would sue anyone who links him to galamsey...

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‘Monica’ Wei Demands ‘identity Clarity’ From Baako

The lawyers of a Chinese woman in Ghana, who is called Monica Wei, have written to the editor-in-chief of the New...