An in-depth investigation into how illegal gold mining in Ghana, weak enforcement of mining laws, and failure to implement the Minamata Convention are exposing children and women to mercury while pushing the country’s last chimpanzees toward extinction.
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Sanitation Excellence Awards in Kumasi honoured outstanding community leaders and institutions advancing sanitation, clean water, and public health across the Ashanti Region. The event celebrated innovators, highlighted impactful grassroots initiatives, and announced new projects including borehole construction and an inter-school sanitation challenge.
Eco-Conscious Citizens’ Coordinator, Awula Serwaah, says repealing Ghana’s L.I. 2462 is not enough to end illegal mining. She calls for stronger enforcement, community protection, and multi-sectoral action to save Ghana’s polluted rivers and forests.
Ghana’s chimpanzees are disappearing fast due to illegal mining, deforestation, and weak laws. This Ghanaian Watch special report exposes the legal failures, political complicity, and urgent conservation battles to save fewer than 60 remaining chimpanzees in Ghana.
Ghana’s Lands Minister revokes 278 small-scale mining licenses in a sweeping crackdown on illegal operations to restore order and protect the environment.
Ghana’s fight against illegal mining has reached a dangerous peak, with armed miners defying environmental laws. Professor Nana Ama Browne Klutse of the EPA unveils a groundbreaking $200,000 nano technology solution designed to bring mercury-free, clean waters to Ghana’s polluted mining zones and end the nation’s era of gunpoint governance.
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 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.
Air pollution is now Ghana’s deadliest public health crisis, claiming more lives each year than HIV/AIDS and malaria. Why is this invisible killer rising unchecked—and who is accountable for the systemic failures fueling it?