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EOCO probe into Abanga and Yamin’s alleged galamsey activities not yet concluded — AG

Modern Ghana 22 Dec 2025
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Rethinking galamsey

B & FT Online 11 Dec 2025
For all the years Ghana has battled illegal mining — or ‘galamsey’, as we call it — the missing piece has never been social passion or political will ... If the fight against galamsey is to mean anything, ...
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National Farmers’ Day – A celebration built on poisoned soil and toxic rivers

B & FT Online 09 Dec 2025
Galamsey has devastated Ghana’s environment at a scale that threatens our very survival ... Food crops grown in galamsey zones now show dangerous heavy metal contamination, raising silent but deadly public health concerns.
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Tano South Municipality declares galamsey-free

Ghana Business News 08 Dec 2025
The Tano South Municipality has been declared galamsey-free by Mr ... The Tano South Municipality’s galamsey-free status serves as a model for other communities to emulate, demonstrating the power ...
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Housing in Ghana: The hidden costs of Galamsey: Infrastructure and environmental degradation

B & FT Online 08 Dec 2025
Galamsey. The term galamsey is a colloquial con traction of the phrase “gather them and sell,” aptly reflecting the informal and often chaotic nature of illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana.
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NDC failing in galamsey fight, abusing state power – NPP

Business Ghana 07 Dec 2025
Kodua asserted that illegal mining, or galamsey, has deteriorated under the current administration, posing an “existential threat” to the country’s environment ... .
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Farmers’Day25: New fisheries law confronts enduring galamsey threat

B & FT Online 05 Dec 2025
... up in a mining community in Tarkwa, I can say with confidence that the law leaves a critical threat untouched, the pollution of rivers by illegal mining (galamsey) that ultimately flows into the sea.
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UMaT has technology to clear all galamsey-polluted rivers – VC

Business Ghana 02 Dec 2025
As Ghana struggles with heavily galamsey– polluted rivers across the country, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Prof ... “We have this technology where some Geomatic Engineers led by Prof ... .
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Ayariga questions MPs’ sincerity in galamsey fight 

Ghana Business News 30 Nov 2025
Mr Mahama Ayariga, the Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business, has questioned the sincerity of Members of Parliament (MPs) who consistently raise concerns about the illegal mining scourge, popularly known as galamsey.
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Afenyo-Markin: NDC gov’t enabling galamsey through Goldbod

Business Ghana 30 Nov 2025
Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has accused the NDC government of enabling illegal mining, alleging that its decision to allow the Gold Board (Goldbod) to purchase gold from small-scale miners effectively finances galamsey activities.
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Environmental campaigners urge public vigilance on how mercury from galamsey was polluting soil, ...

Business Ghana 26 Nov 2025
At a panel discussion at the 'Gold No B Food' event in Accra on Friday, November 21, organised by the Ghana Food Movement, panelists discussed a growing concern about the effects of galamsey and the effects it has on food in Ghana.
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Minority in Parliament calls for weekly updates on fight against galamsey

Business Ghana 25 Nov 2025
... as galamsey. Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Friday, Mr Annoh-Dompreh emphasised that such regular updates were necessary due to the ongoing devastating effects of galamsey on human livelihoods.
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Ghana: Minority in Parliament Calls for Weekly Updates On Fight Against Galamsey

All Africa 24 Nov 2025
... the government's efforts to combat illegal small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey.
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AI over rivers: How drones, satellites and machine intelligence can end galamsey

B & FT Online 24 Nov 2025
Across Ghana’s river basins, the damage of illegal small-scale mining, or galamsey, is visible from space ... Environmental and Economic Cost of Galamsey, 2019–2025” showing rising treatment costs and GDP impact.
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Cabinet approves Public Tribunals Bill to fast-track galamsey prosecutions

Business Ghana 20 Nov 2025
President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that Cabinet has approved the Public Tribunals Bill, a move aimed at accelerating the prosecution of illegal mining (galamsey) cases across the country.

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