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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.
The Birim River basin lies in the Man Shield area of the West African craton, which has been overlaid by Early Proterozoic metasedimentary Birimian rocks. These rocks appear to have originated in mid-oceanic arcs of volcanoes, which formed a crust that collided with and rode over the Man shield portion of the West African Craton and was compressed to form a series of folds generally trending ...
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.
Flash flooding from creeks and rivers destroyed homes and businesses, collapsed roads and ripped victims from their families. As the waters receded, the damage to infrastructure grew more apparent.
The town of Winchelsea on Romney Marsh was destroyed (later rebuilt on the clifftop behind). [1] Nearby Broomhill was also destroyed. The course of the nearby River Rother was diverted away from New Romney , which was almost destroyed and left a mile from the coast, ending its role as a port.
Nonetheless, 231,000 cubic feet per second (6,540 m 3 /s) of water rushed down the river at Hoopa. [18] Between December 20 and December 26, 10,390,000 acre-feet (12.82 km 3) of water flowed into the Pacific Ocean from the combined rivers and streams on the North Coast (of California). [7]
A two-year-old boy has been pulled from the wreckage of a destroyed building in Turkey, 78 hours after the earthquake that devastated large swathes of the country. ... The flood waters from the ...