Across Ghana, taps are running but confidence is drying up. As illegal mining (galamsey) continues to ravage the country’s major river basins, the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is battling a ...

Former chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has bemoaned the current state of most rivers in the country. Speaking at JoyNews’ national ...

By Joseph BENSONAcross Ghana’s river basins, the damage of illegal small-scale mining, or galamsey, is visible from space.

Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, a former chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), has expressed concern over the current state of Ghana's rivers. Speaking at a national ...

Ghana's military has launched a nationwide operation to clear illegal miners out of its water bodies, the West African country's lands minister said in on Wednesday. Two hundred soldiers were deployed ...

Eno Asabea Manu, a mother of two, sits wearily outside her small house in the central region of Ghana, waiting for the water to return to her tap – where water hasn’t flowed for weeks. When it does, ...

Ghana is Africa's largest gold producer, but the country is fast gaining notoriety for destroying its soil and water bodies in search of the precious mineral. Due to a lack of opportunities and ...

Ghana’s largest power supplier, the Volta River Authority (VRA), announced it has secured funds to build two utility-scale PV plants in the Upper West Region from Germany’s government-owned ...