Court Rejects Wontumi’s Attempt To Stop Trial Over Samreboi Galamsey Case
The Accra High Court has ordered Bernard Antwi Boasiako, known as Chairman Wontumi, to open his defence in an alleged ...
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From Tomatoes to Galamsey: How Ghana’s Broken Agricultural Policy Drove Farmers into the Pits
By Francis Atayure AbirigoWhen Memory Feels Like EvidenceThere was a time in Ghana when the idea of tomato scarcity in ...
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Mahama Admits ‘Galamsey’ Involves Political and Community Actors, Warns Fight Will Be Difficult
President John Dramani Mahama has acknowledged that illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, involves individuals across political, traditional, and community ...
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Spillover Of Bawku Conflict: 23 Arrested Over Galamsey In Oda River Forest Reserve
The Bawku conflict may have died down, but the full implications of the protracted dispute are emerging down south as ...
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Franklin Cudjoe Urges Mahama to Take Decisive Action Against Galamsey
President of policy think tank IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has called on John Dramani Mahama to take stronger action to ...
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Mother, Three Children Drown In Abandoned Galamsey Pit
A mother and her two sons, and another child in her family have drowned in an abandoned galamsey (illegal mining) pit in ...
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Mother, Three Sons Drown in Abandoned Galamsey Pit at Wassa Dunkwa
A 42-year-old woman and her three sons have tragically drowned in an abandoned illegal mining pit at Wassa Dunkwa in ...
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Death Toll in Ahafo Mining Pit Collapse Revised to Nine
The death toll from Friday night’s illegal mining pit collapse has been revised to nine, according to JoyNews’ Erastus Asare ...
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Mahama Targets ‘Big Fish’ as Government Shifts Galamsey Crackdown to Financiers
President John Dramani Mahama has announced a strategic shift in the fight against illegal mining, declaring that his administration will ...
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Oppong Nkrumah Sues Baba Jamal Over Galamsey Claims
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has taken Baba Jamal Konneh, Deputy Managing Director of the ...
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