MEHSOG urges integration of mental health care into Ghana’s disaster response systems on World Mental Health Day 2025
As Ghana joins the world to commemorate World Mental Health Day 2025, the Mental Health Society of Ghana (MEHSOG) has ...
Tag: Illegal Mining
Integrating Intelligence-Led and Community-Oriented Policing: A scientific solution to Ghana’s persistent galamsey crisis
Accra, Oct. 8. Illegal small-scale mining, known locally as galamsey, has morphed from a survival tactic into a sprawling, well-financed ...
Go after galamsey land wonders – NPP’s Kwadwo Poku tells Lands Minister
Energy consultant and politician Kwadwo Poku has described illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, as a deep national crisis driven ...
Is ‘Dechemicalization’ even a real word? Prof. Klutse and Dr. Anyimah-Ackah clash over science, language and public communication
A heated public debate has emerged between Professor Klutse, a food scientist, and Dr Anyimah-Ackah, Chief Executive Officer of the ...
Wontumi to be arrested today: How police docket on Akonta Mining was hidden in 2022 and reasons for his arrest
Chairman Wontumi, owner of Akonta Mining Limited, is expected to be brought to Accra today to have his rights formally ...
Cocoa farmers at Twifo Abodom urge government to stop illegal mining contaminating River Osene
Cocoa farmers at Twifo Abodom in the Twifo-Atti-Morkwa District of the Central Region have appealed to the government to urgently ...
IMANI Africa VP questions government’s commitment to ending galamsey
Kofi Bentil, Senior Vice President of IMANI Africa, has expressed scepticism over the government’s efforts to end illegal mining, popularly ...
President Mahama reiterates commitment to eradicate illegal mining
President John Dramani Mahama has reaffirmed his administration’s strong commitment to ending the menace of illegal mining, popularly known as ...
Attorney-General orders Chairman Wontumi to appear in court on Monday
The Attorney-General, Dr Dominic Ayine, has disclosed that charges against the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), ...
ACHPR declares Ghana’s galamsey crisis a human rights emergency, warns of political complicity and social collapse
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has declared Ghana’s illegal mining crisis, popularly known as galamsey, a ...
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