The Galamsey Surge: Trading Our Future, Heritage, Water and Health for Quick Cash?
By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH A quiet catastrophe is reshaping the mineral-rich rural landscape of Ghana, in spite of reported best efforts to fight galamsey.
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