by admin | Nov 6, 2025 | Opinion/Analysis
For years, Ghana’s national conversation on galamsey has focused on the miners in the pits, the politicians allegedly shielding them, and the Chinese operators who introduced heavy mechanization to the trade. We talk about mercury in rivers, acres of destroyed...
by admin | Nov 4, 2025 | Opinion/Analysis
Ghana’s chiefs are often accused of enabling illegal mining. There is truth in that accusation, but also a buried story the nation refuses to confront. The state’s mineral governance structure, the painfully slow royalty distribution system, created a perfect...
by admin | Nov 4, 2025 | Opinion/Analysis
Let us speak honestly. When people in Accra and the big cities condemn galamsey, it is not because they have suddenly become lovers and defenders of the environment. It is because polluted water systems and ecological collapse now threaten their comfort. If these same...
by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Labour in Galamsey
When the conversation turns to galamsey in Ghana, most minds picture young men with headlamps in muddy pits, foreign actors behind heavy machinery, or soldiers storming forest camps. But beyond the excavators and the river dredges lies an often-ignored truth: women...
by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Labour in Galamsey
When Ghanaians talk about galamsey, the focus is often on environmental destruction, lost government revenue, Chinese machinery, or political interference. All of that matters. But behind every excavator and every muddy river stands a person; someone digging,...
