Scholarship scheme, by the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), is emerging as a transformative model for bridging gender ...

Ghana's bodies of water are being poisoned by mercury and cyanide. Babies are being born with severe health conditions. And now a chorus of voices is demanding the president invoke emergency powers ...

Gold is having a moment — and so is Ghana. Global prices for gold have soared past US$4,000 per ounce this year, giving Ghana ...

The effect of illegal mining, otherwise known as galamsay, is now common knowledge: Polluted water bodies with a congenital ...

Pressure is mounting on Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama to declare a state of emergency as environmental degradation ...

The police in Eastern Region have destroyed 10 illegal mining machines and arrested one suspect following a raid on an ...

ACCRA, Ghana — A surge in illegal mining that has reduced Ghana’s cocoa production, contaminated water supplies, and stoked food inflation looks set to be among the biggest challenges awaiting the ...

Early in his eight-year tenure, in 2017, then Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo declared a moratorium on all small-scale gold mining. He established an inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining ...

Ghana’s battle against illegal gold mining is deepening as ‘galamsey’ ravages rivers, cocoa farms and public trust in ...

Epiroc AB, a leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has won a large ...

As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse. An unhappy prospect: A group of men engaged in illegal gold mining ...

Mining and infrastructure industries productivity and sustainability partner Epiroc has won a large order for mining ...