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  "id": 15612112,
  "title": "Experts call for community action, stronger regulation to safeguard Ghana’s blue economy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/experts-call-for-community-action-stronger-regulation-to-safeguard",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-19T13:57:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/experts-call-for-community-action-stronger-regulation-to-safeguard-ghanas-blue-economy/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Participants also pointed to illegal small-scale mining (galamsey), which discharges heavy metals and silt into rivers that empty into the sea, as well as the use of banned chemicals such as DDT and re-labelled toxic agrochemicals in fishing. Other threats discussed included shoreline erosion and sea-level rise, which are sweeping away homes, heritage sites and landing beaches, and overfishing.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
        "title": "BRICS partnership should help Ghana become a middle-income economy beyond paper – Seth Terkper",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/brics-partnership-should-help-ghana-become-a-middle-income-economy",
        "published": "2026-10-19T16:47:25.000Z"
      }
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}