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Photos: The Looming Health Danger In Atwima Nerebehi As Galamseyers Desecrate Community Cemetery

Some residents of Nerebehi are currently living with a situation which could be best described as an epidemic waiting to happen. Illegal miners are reported to have mined the community cemetery at Nerebehi in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipal Assembly of the Ashanti Region in an overnight operation.       …

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Five Galamseyers Jailed 125 Years For Mining In River Ankobra

Five illegal miners (galamseyers) who were caught mining in the Ankobra River without authority have been sentenced to a total of 125 years imprisonment in hard labour. Richard Kumasi, Fiamahe Jerry John, Korblavi Kumasi, Daniel Afenu, and Matthew Gedie, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit crime and undertaking small-scale …

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Video: How Military Brutalized Suspected ‘Galamseyers’

A viral video of suspected illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) operators lying prostrate in dirty and muddy water surrounded by some officers in military uniform with guns. It has emerged that some personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces working to prevent illegal mining activities in the Ashanti region have been torturing …

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