Vital medicinal plants, which some 70 percent of Ghanaians rely on due to high costs of private healthcare, are being lost to ...

The Ghana Chamber of Mines has expressed deep concern over a one-week ultimatum issued by the Artisanal Small-Scale Miners ...

Investigative journalist, Erastus Asare Donkor, has called for the declaration of all major water bodies and biodiversity ...

Ghana’s gold mining sector, while economically vital, has faced significant sustainability challenges due to illegal small-scale mining (galamsey), which has caused environmental degradation, water ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), Justina Nelson, has hinted at a ...

Along with gold and oil, the cocoa industry is a mainstay of Ghana's economy and foreign currency earnings - Copyright POOL/AFP Dmitry ASTAKHOV Along with gold and ...

JEMA, Ghana (AP) — As day broke in a remote part of western Ghana, a priest, farmers and other residents combed through the forests, looking for signs of illegal gold mining. They have done this for ...

President John Mahama is facing mounting public pressure to revoke Ghana‘s controversial mining law that permits operations in protected forest reserves, which environmentalists warn could devastate ...

Ghana’s top water utility shut down the treatment plant that serves its biggest mining hub following a surge in illegal gold mining that’s polluted the river that supplies the facility. Ghana Water Co ...

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana President John Atta Mills pledged on Monday to fight illegal mining which has been blamed for floods that swept the West African nation's cocoa growing Eastern region last week ...

The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has appealed to mining companies to take over, complete and equip the Agenda ...