Wacam Engages Earmarked Mining ,Oil and Gas Communities
Wacam, with support from Trust Africa, organised a three-day workshop at Adwenpa Hotel Busunya from the 15th to 18th July 2019 for earmarked mining, oil and gas communities in the ...
Become Agents of Change In The Re-thinking Of Our Development
The Executive Director of Wacam,Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng has urged students privileged to be studying Archaeology to have a responsibility to become agents of the change in the re-thinking of our development ...
Promoting Women’s Participation In Extractive Industry Governance
The negative impacts associated with the exploitation of mineral resources cuts across gender groups in affected communities. Women, however, bear the rife of these ill effects. Compensation regimes do not take into ...
Protect Local Interest In Negotiating Mining Contracts-Wacam
The Executive Director of Wacam, human rights, environmental and mining advocacy non-governmental organisation (NGO), Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng has said that “the power imbalance that occurs during negotiating of mining contracts ...
Empowering women through livelihood development
Mining activities have generally impoverished the affected community people who have lost their livelihood due to the mining activities. Poverty in mining communities has worsened because mining companies have committed large ...
Wacam supports Dormaa Kantinka in securing resettlement package
Twenty Households in Dormaa Kantinka, affected by Newmont Ahafo operations are to be resettled by Newmont after years of being subjected to the ill effects of the company’s activities. The ...
Women in Ghana Battle a U.S.-Owned Gold Mine for Land and Livelihood
Mining giant Newmont has been seizing farms and dumping cyanide into waterways
YaaKonadu sits outside the farmhouse in Ghana that Newmont took away from her. Company workers spray-painted "Done" on ...
Prosecute powerful persons behind galamsey – Kobina Nketsia
Powerful persons involved in illegal mining activities [Galamsey] should be prosecuted, Paramount Chief of Essikadu Traditional area, Nana Kobina Nketsia has said.
Nana Nketsia who made the suggestion at a ...
Give Mining Sector agencies prosecution powers
Give mining sector agencies prosecution powers – CSO
A civil society group, Center for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) is advocating for agencies in charge of mining activities to be given ...
Damning Report on Newmont Ahafo Mine Operation
Kantinka (B/A), Feb 15, GNA – A research study by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and two other institutions shows that the operation of the Newmont Ahafo Mine, has ...