Standing up to 30 metres tall, Madagascar's giant baobab trees have towered over the island for thousands of years but as the ...

At an unlicensed gold mine in Ghana, men in t-shirts, shorts and rubber boots wade through pools of muddy water laced with ...

Hundreds of people marched through Ghana's capital Accra on Friday in a peaceful protest against unlicensed gold mining, ...

In the end, the gods had remained silent, and the people of Babu Krom paid the price for leaving their future in the hands of ...

Ocean warming has made the collapse of Ghana’s fisheries virtually inevitable, and overfishing by foreign and local fishers ...

Former Welsh rugby star Nathan Brew has discovered that his ancestors were slave owners. Travelling to west Africa as part of ...

By Baptista Sarah GEBU The Galamsey (illegal small-scale gold mining) menace in Ghana poses a significant threat to food security due to its extensive environmental and health impacts – Ghana is ...

Illegal small-scale mining, or galamsey as it is locally known, has become one of the most pressing challenges facing Ghana ...

She said the gear specification directive was to prevent trawlers and tuna vessels from catching small pelagic fish ... afford the inflated cost of animal protein. Fish is a vital source of nutrition ...

By Rachel GYABAAH In Ghana’s quest for gold, a far more precious resource is being destroyed: water. Rivers and viable forests that once sustained communities and the country at large are now tainted ...