Homeless first-time voter resorts to prostitution after …
Young homeless first-time voter, Maa Afia, has revealed how an impulsive decision taken by her father to after a heated argument pushed her into prostitution. According to Maa Afia, her father was ...
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Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: A …
This paper has sought to explain why illegal artisanal mining communities in Ghana are so deeply rooted. The involvement of chiefs, significant investment, an abundance of …
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Trafficking in Persons: Ghana Must Do More to End Modern …
Develop and implement systematic procedures for law enforcement, social welfare personnel, and labor inspectors to proactively identify trafficking victims among vulnerable …
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Prostitution On The Rise In Ghana
Prostitution in this country is on the rise these days, because the institutions that have been task to obliterate it have given deaf ears and blind eyes to it . ... they will rise to support and combat this unacceptable business finding its way into every hood in Ghana, to protect our Children and the unborn Generations. ... Ban small scale ...
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#JustTurned18: Homeless first-time voter resorts to prostitution …
Young homeless first-time voter, Maa Afia, has revealed that her father's impulsive decision to throw her out of home after a heated argument is what pushed her into prostitution.
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MINERALS AND MINING POLICY OF GHANA
Ghana to a state agency at a negotiated price determined by a High Court. It is noteworthy that Ghana's mining industry was to a large extent state controlled between 1957 and 1983. In 1961, the Ghana State Gold Mining Corporation acquired the assets of five mines (Prestea, Tarkwa, Dunkwa, Bibiani and Konongo [Gold
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Cardinal Namdini mining project to be commissioned in Northern Ghana
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr A. Jinapor, has announced that the government is expected to commission the Cardinal Namdini Mining project, the largest gold mining operation in Northern Ghana in November 2024. The project is set to become the third-largest mining company in the country and one of the major players
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Cardinal Mining Project to begin gold production in …
Business News of Thursday, 24 October 2024. Source: Cardinal Mining Project to begin gold production in November - Abu Jinapor
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Assessment of the Challenges in Policy Implementation …
Keywords: Small Scale Mining,Mineral Policies Environmental Impact Regularisation Challenges 1 Introduction Gold mining in Ghana predates the colonial era in the 15th Century where the indigenous people used artisanal mining methods for small scale gold mining, the gold sold to foreign traders, and also made ornaments for their own uses.
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The Worlds of Labor in Ghana's Gold Mining Industry, c.
45. Carola Lentz, Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), 146–7; Sean Hawkins, Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter Between the LoDagaa and "The World on Paper", 1892–1991 (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2002), 63; Gariba B. Abdul-Korah, "'Ka Biε Ba Yor': …
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IMPACT OF MINING SECTOR INVESTMENT IN GHANA: …
the negative environmental impact of mining and the growing redundancies associated with the privatisation of state-owned mining companies. Thus, the growing incidence of conflict between mining communities and their chiefs on one hand and mining companies on the other hand echoes the growing disquiet about the effects of the mining sector-led
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Should Prostitution Be Legalised In Ghana
Ghana can benefit extensively from this line of business if and only we are able to spot this opportunity and bask in on the enormous profit or dividend the business promises. The misery the prostitutes go through are many and i have been of the opinion that, our leaders formulate policies that ensures that they maintain stranglehood on our ...
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Children 'swimming' in mercury and engaging in
Children in some galamsey sites in the Western Region have been engaging in labour, drugs, prostitution and encountering mercury to put body and soul together.
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PERCEPTION OF CHILD PROSTITUTION IN SOME …
factors that contribute to child prostitution in the Western Region of Ghana. The research employed both qualitative and quantitative research. Descriptive correlational survey design, snow ball, purposive sampling technique and structured interview schedules were used to select one hundred and three (103) ...
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Mining in Ghana – paradox of profits, pollutions and poverty
Mining in Ghana has been going on for over 100 years now. And 100 years of any business venture is long enough to show visible signs of progress and understandably positive returns, both economically and socially. ... Prostitution is very common in these areas also because not only do both men and women troop there to grab a share of the hard ...
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Internalizing the Negative Externalities of Mining in …
mining activity may have in mining communities for example the alteration of the social structure, increased delinquency, prostitution, alteration of the local culture and forced relocation. Ghana like any other mining country is beset with negative externalities (problems) concerning social and environmental issues.
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Ghana: workers in Accra increase charges over current …
Prostitutes stand walk on the street in Benin City, capital of Edo State, southern Nigeria, on March 29, 2017. ... Thousands demonstrate in Accra against illegal mining in Ghana 06/10 - 15:47 ...
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Human Trafficking Risk Factors in Gold Production in Africa
Some gold mining operations in sub-Saharan Africa have been associated with trafficking and child prostitution. Large mining areas bringing together transitory populations are particularly …
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Prostitution: Nigerian human trafficking Kingpin
Known as Emeka and nick-named "Pu**y Mama," the trafficker had been on the police wanted list in both Ghana and Nigeria for years. Emeka, identified as intersex with both male and genitalia, is involved in trafficking women from Nigeria, Liberia, and Togo into Ghana for prostitution, according to a police report.
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Galamsey: Ghana's illegal gold mining industry causes
The illegal mining has also affected cocoa production, with the Ghana Cocoa Board saying in 2021 that more than 19,000 hectares of farmland had been destroyed in key cocoa-growing areas like the ...
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Prostitution in Ghana, it's Religious and ethical implications: The
The study was conducted to investigate the religious and ethical implications of prostitution in Ghana. The purpose of the study was to examine why prostitution still persists in spite of condemnation by some religious groups. ... Six selected communities, where mining and industrial activities are done, comprising 53 respondents and ...
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Structural relations of the trade and its link to
The trade in Ghana is perceived as women's business. The legal definition of prostitution in the Ghanaian criminal code of 1960 limits work and stipulates …
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PROSTITUTION IN GHANA, ITS RELIGIOUS AND ETHICAL …
The study was conducted to investigate the religious and ethical implications of prostitution in Ghana. The purpose of the study was to examine why prostitution still persists in spite of condemnation by some religious groups. ... Six selected communities, where mining and industrial activities are done, comprising 53 respondents and ...
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Mining companies in Ghana in 2022: a …
5. Asanko Gold Mine. Mineral type: Gold Mine location: Amansie West Website: Asanko is one of the gold mining companies in Ghana. Three partners own the firm. Galiano and Gold Fields have a 45% …
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Child Prostitution On The Rise In Ghana
Dr Oduro mentioned the driving factors of child prostitution such as poverty, poor parenting and peer pressure. "In some families, they allow the children to be sleeping out and this causes the children to engage in prostitution" she stated and underscored how festivals and funerals contributed to the promotion of child prostitution in the country.
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The impact of mining on farming as a livelihood strategy …
Ghana has a long history of mining which many stakeholders contend has negatively impacted on the growth of other important sectors of the Ghanaian economy and also causing other social problems ...
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Mahama is the first sitting president to be involved in illegal mining …
Breaking News in Ghana, Ghana Sports News, Ghana News, News in Ghana, latest in ghana, Business in Ghana, Entertainment in Ghana, Top Stories, Headlines in Ghana, Politics in Ghana ... Mahama is the first sitting president to be involved in illegal mining activities – NAPO. October 25, 2024. in News, Top Story.
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Mechanisms for Ending Illegal Mining and Protecting
Consequently, it is crucial for the government of Ghana to implement effective mechanisms that will put an end to illegal mining and safeguard the country's water bodies and forest reserves. This article explores various mechanisms the government can utilize, including their implementation and associated initiatives, to tackle this pressing ...
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Illegal mines, pollution and a thirsty global market: Anger …
ACCRA, Ghana — Illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana has been linked with the destruction of the environment and illness. But for some, the practice known locally as galamsey provides ...
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Inadequacies of the Definitions of Sexual Offences
In Ghana, the offence of rape is gender specific. Thus, a man cannot be raped, not even by his fellow man. In situations like these, it is considered as unnatural carnal knowledge and it carries the same sentence as rape. Most importantly, in Ghana, a woman cannot be the perpetrator of rape.
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