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The Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has led a team of police on an exercise to stop illegal mining activities on the Ankobra...

Illegal miners have blocked the River Ankobra at multiple points in Prestea-Hemang and Awodua in the Western Region, preventing its natural flow. JoyNews can confirm...

The Ankobra River, situated in the Western Region of Ghana, flows through the Juaboso and Nzema East districts.The 2023 testing of samples from various...

Five illegal miners locally referred to as galamseyers who were caught mining in the Ankobra river without authority have been sentenced to a total...

River Ankobra can help you retrieve lost items, it protects us – Fisherman reveals [Video]

A total of 453 personnel from the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources’ Blue Water Initiative have successfully completed a rigorous four-week training program...

The government, through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has launched the Blue Water River Guard training program, a key initiative under the...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor has inaugurated the Himang Ankobrah Community Mining Scheme (CMS) in the Prestea-Huni Valley District...

Nana Ainoo Kwagyan III, the Chief of Esiama in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region, has urged the Member of Parliament (MP), Emmanuel...

Tests conducted on ten major rivers across the country have revealed high levels of dangerous heavy metals.The Oda, Ankobra, Tano, Offin and six others...

A 32-year-old driver, who conspired with his wife to rob a driver of his Mazda Damio taxicab valued at GHS30,000.00 has been remanded into...

The first batch of 100 out of 300 River Wardens on Tuesday successfully completed a 4-week intensive pre-deployment training course at the Eastern Naval...

Ghana is a nation of dreamers no doubt, but our collective imagination occasionally slips and betrays a nation without dreams.I refer to slippages in...

Deputy Lands and Natural Resources Minister in charge of Mines, George Mireku Duker, has decommissioned about 838 changfans and tools being used by illegal...

The Chief Executive of the Minerals Commission, Martin Ayisi, has declared that as government’s permanent solution to the fight against illegal mining, the Ministry...

The Western Regional Police Command has intensified its crackdown on illegal mining, leading to a major raid at Avelebo and Akango in the Evalue...

An award-winning environmental and investigative journalist with the Multimedia Group Limited, Erastus Asare Donkor, has recounted a harrowing experience he and his team faced...

The Media Coalition Against Illegal Mining is calling on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to arrest and prosecute the owners of a mining...

Three staff of the Multimedia Group Limited including Erastus Asare Donkor have been attacked by armed men who claim to be working for Edelmetallum...

Nine suspected illegal miners have been arrested, and 23 changfans destroyed by officers from 'Operation Halt'. They were arrested along the Ankobra River at Prestea...

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has stated that getting the New Patriotic Party (NPP) out of office...

Illegal miners have cut down vegetation covering more than forty acres of land in the Anwhiaso-Bibiani Municipality of the Western-North Region. This vast amount of...

The Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced five persons to a total of 100 years imprisonment in hard labour for mining without authority.  They are Sampson Mefe, Eric...

Principal Kingmakers and accredited elders of Amankrapanyin family have called on the general public, particularly the citizens of the area to disregard the reports...

The Chief Executive Officer of Okoben Mining Company, Nana Okoben Amponsah, through his lawyers, Gaisie Zwennees Hughes & Co in Takoradi, has written a...

A 13-year-old girl was on Friday bitten to death by a snake in a cocoa settlement at Dadieso in the Ellembelle District of the...

Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, has revealed 265 mining equipment have so far been destroyed in the fight against...

In an effort to complement the government's clampdown on illegal miners, the task force of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners (GNASSM)...

A one-day workshop aimed at looking at the impact of illegal mining (popularly known as galamsey) and water security has ended with a call...

Over four hundred officers of the Ghana Armed Forces have been deployed for the fourth phase of the fight against illegal mining dubbed Operation...

Just a little over two years of winning a major court case against the Minerals Commission for non-renewal of its gold prospecting license, Takoradi Gold Ghana...

Africa-focused miner, Asante Gold Corporation (CSE:ASE/ FRANKFURT:1A9/OTC:ASGOF), which is developing the Kubi Mining Lease and is exploring the Keyhole, Fahiakoba and Betenase concessions, all...

The five Chinese and five Ghanaians illegal miners, who were arrested in March, this year, by the Western Regional Police Command, in Bamianko corridor...

Ghana will need billions of dollars to treat, reclaim, and restore vast degraded lands and water bodies affected by illegal mining activities over the...

President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has criticized former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his inadequate response to illegal mining, describing his efforts...

The images are haunting: viral videos shared widely across social media show murky, brown sludge gushing from inland rivers into the sea, choking the...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Accra, along with the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious, Ghana, have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to declare a state of...

The Rastafari Council, Ghana, has expressed concern over the continued destruction of Ghana’s environment, water bodies, and agricultural lands due to the illegal mining...

The Fetish Priests Association of Ghana, led by its President, Kwaku Bonsam, has announced plans to embark on a nationwide protest in response to...