Galamsey Crisis Deepens, Testing Ties beyond Business as Ghana and China Trade Blame

 For families in Ghana’s Western and Ashanti regions, Galamsey is not an abstract debate but a daily reality. Farmers wake up to find their cocoa farms destroyed by unregulated mining. Mothers worry as children fall sick from mercury-contaminated water. Community chiefs wrestle with how to preserve traditions while young men abandon farming to chase quick riches underground.

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