by admin | Nov 25, 2025 | Infographic, Opinion/Analysis
Ghana’s fight against illegal mining has long focused on one symbol of environmental destruction: the excavator. Between 2018 and 2024, security operations seized and destroyed more than a thousand of these machines, as shown in the infographic below. But the numbers...
by admin | Nov 14, 2025 | Opinion/Analysis
To understand galamsey, you must first accept a simple truth: nobody wakes up in a village, stretches their arms, yawns, and decides to dig for gold on land that doesn’t belong to them. You lie bad! Galamsey only happens because someone with land is willing to give...
by admin | Nov 12, 2025 | NAIMOS, Opinion/Analysis
Dear NAIMOS and EPA I write as a concerned citizen to question, and suggest some strategies, for our country’s long-standing approach to fighting illegal mining; the same approach we’ve recycled since the early 1980s: arrest, seize, burn, and leave. Every few years,...
by admin | Nov 10, 2025 | Opinion/Analysis
In the early 1980s, the collapse of many state companies built by Kwame Nkrumah’s regime, plunged Ghana’s economy into turmoil. Job losses, high cost of living exacerbated by the fire and droughts, scarcity of basic social and economic services, and rising public debt...
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...
