Environment

ILLEGAL MINING: Communities threatened by devastating effects

When President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo redirected national focus towards the canker by making a bold pledge to tackle illegal mining, popularly called galamsey,...

JUSTICE DENIED: How state inaction killed three children at sand winning site

A mason was busily mixing mortar at a construction site when an agitated woman ran to him. She was desperately seeking help to rescue...

Boy dies in galamsey pit while awaiting BECE result

It was the hope of Madam Naomi Tabi that her son would pass his Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), go to the Agogo State...

A mixed bag: Akufo-Addo’s words and deeds on climate change

“What we do in Ghana affects the people of Nepal or Mozambique or Austria. That is why we need concerted...
Edmund Agyemang Boateng -

Energy Commission stops police from investigating businessman busted over biggest illegal charcoal export

“No, we are not under any form of political pressure,” the Energy Commission’s Director of Renewable Energy, Mr Kofi Agyarko,...
Edwin Appiah -

Only two Chinese in Ghana’s prisons: two groups petition for investigations

  Two environmental non-governmental organisations have asked for investigations into why only two Chinese nationals are in Ghana’s prisons in spite...
Seth J. Bokpe -

Anger as company clears 100-acre protected forest to produce beer

The Paramount Chief of Nakong, Pe Joseph Banapeh Afagachie II, said he had been stabbed in the back. He was...
Edward Adeti -

Only two Chinese citizens in Ghana’s prisons despite hundreds arrested for illegal mining 

On May 10, 2021, three men stood in the dock in the quietude of the Koforidua Circuit Court, awaiting their...
Seth J. Bokpe -
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