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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Mining towns wallow in misery and poverty

Mining towns in Ghana are still grappling with under-development in spite of the benefits the State derives from the minerals being mined in these communities by multinational mining companies, Public Agenda investigations have revealed.

On arrival at Tarkwa, Prestea, Kenyase and Obuasi among other mining communities, one is greeted with a sorry spectacle of abandoned mining pits, degraded lands, polluted water bodies, bad road networks and poor sanitation.
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