Pressure is mounting on Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama to declare a state of emergency as environmental degradation caused by illegal mining reaches critical levels.

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

By all accounts, Ghana’s illegal mining problem, known locally as 'galamsey,' has entered a dangerous new phase. What began ...

Ghana is bleeding gold, but the real cost is poisoned rivers, ruined farmland and sick communities. Illegal mining, or ...

Ghana spends millions of Ghana cedis on cleaning up water for consumption . According to the managing director of Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), about 50% of the water treated by the company is ...

A devastating outbreak of armyworm has struck Abolove-Nolopi community, in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region .

Cocoa farmers at Onaa in the Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region are appealing to government to urgently stop a private developer from cutting down their cocoa farms for a real estate project.

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 ...

THE National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) and the Blue Water Guards have confiscated 12 excavators and arrested three people in a crackdown on illegal mining sites in the ...

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Eric Opoku, has praised the critical role women play in Ghana’s agricultural sector, as ...

The Ghana Water Limited (GWL) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have attributed the over 200% proposed increase in ...

ACCRA, April 3 (Reuters) - Ghana will raise the fixed farmgate price paid to cocoa farmers by up to 50% in an effort to share profits from rising global prices and deter farmers from bean smuggling, a ...