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🇬🇭What's Wrong With Ghana's Gold On Friday Ghana's president held a meeting with civil society representatives intended to discuss solutions to Ghana's "galamsey" problem - massive illegal gold mining that poisons rivers and causes deforestation. "I don’t gain anything from galamsey. I’m not personally involved in galamsey. I have no interest in galamsey continuing", said the president. Over the past decade Ghana tried: 👉 Teprorarily banning small-scale mining 👉 Vice-versa expanding legal small-scale mining by massive license distribution 👉 Deporting foreign nationals involved + restricting visa granting rules 👉 Transferring the monopoly to buy gold from small-scale miners to the Gold Board, created in April 2025 What's interesting is that none of this had really had any significant impact yet. Partly this is the reason why some in Ghana are calling on the president to declare a state of emergency. How exactly the latter can help fix the "galamsey" problem is once again unclear. Devils Below