Tag: Galamsey

The CEO of the Minerals Commission, Martin Kwaku Ayisi, has raised concerns over the potential negative effects of a blanket ban on small-scale mining in Ghana. Speaking in an interview ...

Dr. Samuel Sarpong Ankrah, leader of the Alternative Force for Action (AFA), has made a bold appeal to Ghanaians and like-minded independent movements to join forces in challenging the dominance ...

Yaw A. Attah Arhin, the WASH Technical Specialist at World Vision Ghana, has called on the government to declare the state of the nation’s water bodies as a state of ...

Four individuals have been arrested in a joint operation by the Twifo Atti Mokwa District Assembly, police, and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) last Tuesday. The operation, which took ...

A cloud of fear and suspicion has descended upon the small mining community of Manso Watereso in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti Region following the brutal murder of ...

Patrick Mensah, a final-year BSc Agriculture student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has lost his life in a galamsey pit in Manso, Ashanti Region. Patrick's death ...

In a recent development, En Huang, the Chinese national widely known as Aisha Huang, has been handed a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence in Ghana for her involvement in illegal mining. The ...

The Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) of the Forestry Commission have apprehended ten individuals engaged in illegal mining within the Manse section of the Anhwiaso East Forest Reserve in the Western ...

The High Court in Accra will on December 4, 2023 decide whether or not En Huang, also known as Aisha Huang is guilty of illegal mining charges against her.  Justice ...

Former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, says he is not surprised that the Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame decided to down play his report on illegal ...