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‘Days of Galamseyers Numbered’

President of the Ghana Journalists Association, (GJA) Mr. Affail Monney, has said galamsey has defied many solutions,...

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Days of Galamseyers Numbered

President of the Ghana Journalists Association, (GJA) Mr. Affail Monney, has said galamsey has defied many solutions,...

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We Must All Support Fight Against Galamsey!

A media war has been waged on illegal mining popularly known as galamsey and its continuous devastating effects on our...

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Let All Ghanaians Rally To Call For the Total Abolition of Galamsey From the Country

I have over the years published my views on the ongoing devastating surface mining locally called galamsey. I once even...

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Fight Against Galamsey Will Yield No Result If Affected Victims Don’t Join

former Member of Parliament for the Kade constituency, lawyer Ofosu Asamoah has posited that the fight against illegal...

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Politicians, Police Are Chief Culprits of Illegal Mining

Calls to stop galamsey in Ghana, has been on a very high increase in recent times, with some of the agitations tagged...

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Neglect of Mining Communities Promoting Galamsey – CDD

A research fellow at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kojo Asante, has observed that illegal mining...

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Renewal of Mining Licence Suspended; Issuance of New Ones On Hold

Small scale mining companies would not be able to renew their licence until the menace of illegal mining (galamsey) is...

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Environment Minister Confronted By Ivorian Authorities Over Galamsey

Ivorian authorities have expressed grave concerns over the activities of illegal miners in Ghana, which they say is...

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Neglect of Mining Communities Promoting Galamsey

A research fellow at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kojo Asante, has observed that illegal mining...

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Army, Police Must Take Over Combat Against Illegal Mining

Several challenges have come in the way of the long-lasting fight against the widespread practice of illegal mining in...

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Ghana Police Poking A Stick Into Our Eyes

By Gideon Sackitey Right at the center of many a discussion today is the decision of the Ghana Police Service to accept...

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The Call For Communities To Rise Against Galamsey

The argument that the people in galamsey threatened communities must rise up in protest sounds good on the face of it,...

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Gov’t Suspends Licenses For Small Scale Mining

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu, yesterday announced that Government had suspended the...

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Government Suspends Licence For Small-Scale Mining

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has placed a moratorium on licences for small-scale mining in an attempt to...

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What Can Creative Artists Do To Help Fight ‘galamsey’?

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” This is one of my favourites quotes from Martin Luther...

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Galamsey Could Escalate Tensions With Cote d’Ivoire – Kwesi Aning

The cancer of illegal mining, also known as galamsey, that has gone unchecked in Ghana could escalate already existing...

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What Can Creative Artists Do To Help Fight ‘galamsey’? [Article]

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” This is one of my favourites quotes from Martin Luther...

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Galamsey Could Escalate Tensions With Cote d’Ivoire

The cancer of illegal mining, also known as galamsey, that has gone unchecked in Ghana could escalate already existing...