Ghanaian here!
Galamsey has destroyed and continues to destroy Ghana’s rivers. As a result, many communities no longer have reliable access to clean, safe drinking water. The institution responsible for providing water to Ghanaians are struggling to treat and supply water because of the severe pollution caused by illegal mining.
Illegal mining is taking place right beside major roads, farms, schools, and other critical infrastructure, leaving behind environmental devastation and putting nearby communities at risk. It is not only contaminating our rivers with toxic chemicals such as mercury and cyanide, but it is also degrading farmlands, destroying biodiversity, and threatening the livelihoods of countless families. Fight against illegal mining in your country because it is destroying Ghana #StopGalamseyNow
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Sorry I do not reach out as often as I used to, I have been second guessing my career path,debating my life choices,and sleeping in any free time I get to escape the reality that is my life.
Accra flooded again yesterday. June 3. The anniversary of the 2015 disaster.
We have a $350 million World Bank project called GARID designed specifically to fix this. But somewhere between the debt default, the IMF programme, and the fiscal consolidation that followed, it became a casualty.
Ghana’s economic crisis and resulting fiscal consolidation efforts forced spending cuts. The result was 16 months without a single disbursement. For instance, government introduced a funding ceiling on project disbursement last year and swept 13.8m cedis from the project’s designated account. While Accra flooded every season, contractors demobilized and drain works stalled.
Six years in, only 40% of $350 million has been used. Detention ponds not built. The Ayidan landfill not built. Nima’s wastewater sewers not completed. Over 3,370 displaced persons profiled but not yet compensated. And the entire $150 million additional financing approved in 2023 remains completely untouched.
The World Bank has now warned Ghana formally: confirm sustained funding disbursement or the project’s continuation is at risk.
To its credit, government has begun responding. The swept funds were returned in March 2026, a withdrawal application of $10.5 million was processed, and a formal restructuring request submitted. Steps in the right direction, but the World Bank’s own assessment notes these have only partially eased the financing gap.
June 3 demands more than remembrance. It demands follow-through
For the past two and a half years, the UK government has armed a genocide as it was livestreamed around the world.
Now, some politicians are pretending they have always been against the crimes they enabled.
Too little, too late. Your complicity will never, ever be forgotten.
People aren’t just inherently law abiding in developed countries. The laws actually work. You can’t just do anything and get away with it. The laws have worked for decades and have shaped behavior and culture. You don’t have that in Ghana. You will never have that in Ghana.
A genocide is still happening in Gaza. A massacre is still happening in Lebanon. 14 million people have been displaced in Sudan. Congo is currently facing a catastrophic collision of severe health crises. No matter what, do not stop talking about countries that are suffering.
look at all the chaos happening in accra - floods, collapsed buildings, fire - all of which did not discriminate between LGBTQ Ghanaians & non-LGBTQ Ghanaians btw
meanwhile homophobic & transphobic Ghanaians are celebrating the passage of a deadly bill that will harm us all