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Operation Vanguard is a military police joint task force (JTF) set up by the President of Ghana in 2017 to combat illegal mining, known as galamsey.Over the years, the practice has depleted Ghana's forest cover and polluted bodies of water due to the crude and unregulated nature of the mining process.
Galamsey refers to illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana. [1] The term is derived from the English phrase "gather them and sell". [ 2 ] Historically, galamsey referred to traditional small-scale mining practices in Ghana, where local communities would gather and search for gold in rivers and streams.
CENTCOM claims that its forces destroyed one Houthi USV and one Houthi drone launched into the Red Sea, and also claims to have destroyed 2 Houthi patrol boats. CENTCOM also claims that the Houthis launched three anti-ship ballistic missiles, with the first two of them missing their targets, and the third hitting Verbena (in addition to the two ...
Ukrainian forces have either destroyed or damaged all three of the bridges over the Seym River in western Russia, according to Russian sources, as Kyiv's incursion into western Russia entered its ...
In Orphic literature, in which there are four rivers of the underworld, the Phlegethon is associated with the element of fire, and the direction east. [ 3 ] In Oedipus by Seneca the Younger , the first singing of the chorus, which mainly describes the plague that has settled in Thebes , includes the line, "Phlegethon has changed his course and ...
The fire behaviour was unusual in many areas due to extreme dryness of fuel and variable winds. The initial destruction in Warragamba and the Hawkesbury River area prompted a natural disaster declaration by the State Government. [1] On Christmas Day of 2001 over four thousand firefighters were battling over one hundred blazes across the state.
A farmhouse was set on fire in 1672 by the French. At the same location Vredenoord was erected. [62] Bunnik: w:nl:Nieuw-Amelisweerd (in Dutch) was destroyed., [63] but was still in existence in 1674 after the French occupation [64] w:nl:Oud-Amelisweerd (in Dutch) was largely destroyed in 1672, but was rebuilt in 1770. [65] [49] [66]
Augusta and Merlin aground and on fire after the attack on Fort Mercer, 23 October 1777 Augusta. (third from right) at the action off Mud Fort on 15 November 1777. On the evening of 22 October 1777, the Augusta and several other warships, under the command of Admiral Francis Reynolds, had sailed up the Delaware River to a point a short distance below some chevaux de frise obstructions [3] in ...