by admin | May 19, 2026 | Opinion/Analysis
Ghana’s current doctrine in the fight against illegal mining has increasingly centred on arrests and crackdowns on labourers operating in pits and along river bodies such as the Ankobra. In practice, the strategy has become a confrontation with the most visible and...
by admin | May 12, 2026 | Opinion/Analysis
Since 2013, Ghana has thrown almost every weapon at galamsey, except the one that matters most: confronting the underlying causes that keep expanding it. We have formed taskforces and renamed others. Operation Vanguard, Operation Halt, Blue Water Guards, NAIMOS,...
by admin | May 7, 2026 | Opinion/Analysis
I first heard about galamsey through my friend Lardi, who is from Nadowli,. She had already been moving between mining towns in the south, particularly in the Western and Western North regions, and it was through her that I began to understand what was possible. At...
by admin | May 5, 2026 | Opinion/Analysis
Ghana’s fight against illegal mining has been communicated through numbers: Operations launched, arrests made, equipment seized, and recently, even percentages of “victory” declared. But what must happen for galamsey fight success to be declared? At GalamseyData.com,...
by admin | Apr 30, 2026 | Opinion/Analysis
My name is Nana Kwesi Assan. I am 29 years old, and I come from a small community near Hiawa in the Wassa Amenfi Central District of the Western Region. I live with my father, a man now in his mid-70s, whose body carries the evidence of decades of labour. His back is...
by admin | Mar 2, 2026 | News, Opinion/Analysis
WASSA DUNKWA, Western Region, A 42-year-old woman and her four children have died after drowning in an abandoned illegal mining pit at Wassa Dunkwa in the Amenfi West Municipality on Saturday afternoon. The victims; a mother and her children, including the eldest aged...
