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🇬🇭Ghana Loses Agriculture 🌍 Speaking on Ghanaian radio this morning, the EU Ambassador to Ghana Rune Skinnebach said that the EU may ban the import of local agriculture due to mercury contamination of products, caused by illegal gold mining - locally called “galamsey”. I wouldn’t want any consumer to have polluted goods or farm products. I wouldn’t get Ghanaian or European consumers to eat sweet potatoes with mercury residues in them. ☝️And what do human rights defenders think? 🔴 At the same time, Ghanian human rights activists are demandingthat the authorities stop deporting foreigners engaged in illegal mining. ‼️ Unlike their counterparts around the world, for Ghanaian human rights activists deportation is too soft a punishment for foreigners who should be tried and punished with full severity of the Ghanaian law. Although the agricultural export to the EU accounts for only 7% of Ghana's total exports, other countries may also refuse to import food from Ghana for fear of getting a portion of mercury along with tomatoes. After all, if things get really bad, what will the Ghanians themselves eat? Devils Below