GoldBod leads Ghana’s small-scale mining boom, generating US$8 billion in exports by October 2025 — a major win for the economy and forex reserves.
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The Kumasi City Market has unveiled a newly renovated, international-standard fire station as part of its efforts to strengthen fire safety and emergency response. Market Manager Ernest Afayam highlights new safety measures, trader education, and strict enforcement to prevent future fire outbreaks at Ghana’s largest trading hub.
Ghana’s Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has assured global investors that the country’s economic recovery is firmly on track, with inflation falling, fiscal reforms deepening, and growth projected to rebound strongly by year-end.
At the 2025 AfDB meeting in Washington, African Finance Ministers praised Ghana’s GOLDBOD model for transforming gold governance. The initiative, led by the Ministry of Finance, is being hailed as a continental blueprint for transparency, sustainable growth, and value-driven resource management across Africa.
The Ghanaian government has released GH¢195.5 million to fund SHS feeding and settle NSMQ debts, but head teachers at the CHASS conference warn of teacher
This in-depth investigative report uncovers how severe coastal erosion is wiping out entire communities in Ghana’s Volta Region, including Fuvemeh and Dzakplagbe, destroying homes, heritage sites, and livelihoods. Featuring eyewitness accounts, scientific data, and expert analysis, the story exposes the human, cultural, and environmental cost of rising sea levels, failed sea defense systems, illegal sand mining, and climate change. It also highlights urgent solutions—from mangrove restoration to hybrid coastal protection—to save Ghana’s rapidly vanishing shoreline.
An in-depth investigative feature exposing how Ghana’s gold mining rules protect political elites while targeting small miners. Through voices from Ashanti and Western Region communities, the story uncovers corruption, human struggles, and the systemic failures fueling the galamsey crisis.
A 48-year-old businesswoman, Madam Spendilove Afrakomah, has been installed as Bekwai’s Nsenie Hemaa under the stool name Nana Agyekuwaa Baadue IV. The colourful Akwasidae ceremony drew chiefs, elders, and the Asante Wo Dom Union, as she pledged to unite women and promote development in the Ashanti Region.
A top Ghanaian forensic scientist, Prof. Paul Poku Sampene Ossei, warns that illegal mining (galamsey) has poisoned Ghana’s water bodies with heavy metals, causing spontaneous abortions, infant deformities, chronic diseases, and rising kidney failures. He calls the crisis a “war crime” and urges urgent national action.
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