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From Promises to Poisoned Rivers: The Dangerous Silence Fueling Ghana’s Escalating Galamsey and Environmental Collapse
But when we permanently destroy the natural systems that give us clean water and sustain life, no government, no political party and no amount of gold will buy back what we have lost The question before Ghana is therefore no longer whether galamsey is destroying our environment.
Its manifesto and key members promised that the next NDC government would “wage a ruthless war” against illegal mining and undertake an aggressive programme to reclaim polluted water bodies, degraded lands and devastated forest reserves.
In July 2026, the Ghana Coalition Against Galamsey challenged the government’s assessment of progress and argued that illegal mining remains widespread.
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