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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.
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 In 2017, Bernard Avle together with Citi Fm launched a campaign against illegal small scale mining also known as Galamsey which has destroyed Ghana's water bodies over the years. [ 8 ] The Ghana Chamber of Mines gave his show an excellence award for the work he did for Galamsey.
Economic questions have topped people’s concerns in the build-up to the election, especially the rising cost of living. At the end of 2022, the annual inflation rate hit 54%. At the end of 2022 ...
When President Nana Addo Darkwa Akufo-Addo instituted a ban on illegal mining (galamsey) across the country, Quarm threw his support for the government initiative stating the need to protect water bodies and arable lands despite the President's action affecting residents of Amansie West District of the Manso Nkwanta Constituency in the Ashanti ...
The Birim river which passes through his constituency is a major river body in Ghana and supplies a substantial amount of the constituency's water requirement. Atta Akyea opined that the galamsey fight was a national problem requiring military support. [13] [14] [15]
Around 4.5 million of them are women, and an estimated 600,000 children work in illegal artisanal gold mines. Artisanal miners use rudimentary methods to extract and process gold. Many of these people are mining to escape extreme poverty, unemployment and landlessness. In Ghana, galamsey miners are estimated to number 20,000 to 50,000. [66]
Dominic Aduna Bingab Nitiwul (born November 4, 1977) [1] is a Ghanaian politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bimbilla constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana. [1]