2025

By Ebenezer Oppong Aboagye Real Estate Professional and Environmental Advocate Illegal mining—popularly known as galamsey—has become one of Ghana’s most devastating national challenges. Despite the numerous interventions, public campaigns, and political promises, the menace continues to ravage our environment, contaminate our water bodies, destroy farmlands, and threaten the livelihoods of...

The usually quiet farming community of Gbenyiri, in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Savannah Region, has been rocked by violent clashes that have left at least 10 people dead and several others injured. What began as a long-standing land ownership dispute escalated into a deadly confrontation, displacing scores of residents and exposing the deep fractures in Ghana’s land tenure system. A...