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NAIMOS Arrest Figures Raise Questions Over Galamsey Data
Conflicting official figures on arrests made under Ghana's anti-galamsey campaign have raised questions about transparency and data coordination within the National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations...
Mahama Targets Galamsey Kingpins as Political Complicity Clouds Crackdown
President John Dramani Mahama has signalled a fundamental shift in Ghana's approach to illegal mining, declaring that his administration will now pursue the financiers...
Rubber Tapper Gets Three Years for Sneaking Into Ghana’s Last Rainforest to Hunt
A man who entered Ghana's most biologically sensitive forest to hunt illegally has been sentenced to three years in prison, in one of the...
Ghana Faces US$264m Bill to Restore 5,500 Hectares Destroyed by Galamsey
Restoring a single hectare of land devastated by illegal small-scale mining, widely known as galamsey, now costs the government as much as 48,000 United...
Mining Law Exposed 89 Percent Forest Reserves
Environmental civil society organisations have revealed that the recently revoked Legislative Instrument (L.I.) 2462 exposed up to 89 percent of Ghana's forest reserves to...
