Cases of kidney failure are increasing in Ghana.
And the health problems are being linked to river pollution caused by illegal gold mining.
Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports.
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😂😂😂 the gold they are digging ist worth1/100 of the Environment demages..
Thank you Al Jazeera 😮
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This should be heading news. For the poor animals too. Not good.
Irony is that even if we do not drink the water, the animals consumed drink it.
It is all about wealth for the politicians that don’t care about citizens 😢
Lol this is illegal mining run by Uneducated person that doest care about Environment.. Whytf did u blame goverment for?
A lot of it is china illegally mining and then smuggling the gold out in Ghana. But AJ refuses to talk about it.
@Brian Healy Al Jazeera exposed the governments twice; videos on YouTube “pipeline of rhino horn” 4 episodes “gold Mafia; but governments benefits from this illegal trade; sadly it is the citizens that suffers as with illegal trade comes gangsters; syndicates and cartels 😢
@Brian Healyit’s not only China but people forced into this cuz of poverty and also wagner
@M2v – Animatez ya I forgot about them as well
Where’s the Ghana government to do something about it?
I bet they’re benefitting from this
They’re collecting big buck$
If God decides to end the earth, it’s the fault of the liars.
This is what capitalism does. Killing everything and everyone.
This kind of environmental destruction needs to be dealt with. I think its a global problem and should be solved and dealt with internationally.
It involves global commerce that that buys cheap and don’t care if as a result people die. But somehow corporations should be made to care.
Unfortunately i don’t know business enough to know what would be efective way.
Why doesn’t anyone ever add which country is raping these gold operations when that country is china?
W dont mind about investments from this so called dept stringing ppls overseas but what w hate is the impact of destroying our Eco systems and our natural environment distructions.Nobdy can live in a destroyed land ,i think our politicians are the main cause of this problems as they dont enforce laws that protect our natural ecosystems.
The government in Ghana should be investing in its people so they don’t get driven to stupidity. If the government looked after its people with good employment opportunities and was building roads and hospitals, schools and decent drains, started cleaning up and having rubbish trucks picking up people’s rubbish all over, it would give good employment opportunities. The government is lazy and greedy and corrupt. Look at the filth all over, where people who don’t care for their environment or where they live are living in disgusting filth. There’s no social welfare there, there’s no government support to pay for people’s health care..it’s a disgrace!
They think they are making their lives better by destroying their home land..
It’s poverty
I wept when I saw Pra river last year. This was the same river we use to run to for a drink after feeling thirsty and tired from a hard day work in the farm.
Today, it can’t even sustain the life of a mosquito larvae. The laws are not working and the politicians are the beneficiaries of these illegal mining. The Chinese left their country to come and spoil our land and our official are there watching them in admiration.😊😊
I witnessed it myself in 2016 driving from Tarkwa to Kumasi. True, it’s mainly Chinese operated and they’re aggressive and have bought off some of the local officials and police. When we stopped at what we thought was a guesthouse, 5 Chinese men with automatic guns came out to chase us off. The water contamination in the region was disgusting with hundreds of green & yellow water filled craters. Also endless lines of women and children carrying buckets along the main road. I don’t believe the region will ever recover from this.
Ghana government like all worldly governments is being payed off. Corruption across the board.
Who cares. They choose to attack gay people let them suffer
This is what the European invaders did to American Indian indigenous lands! Now Native Americans are less than 1% of the USA population! Inter-racial marriages is making the Indigenous people of America extinct! Tribal constitutions need to recognize other Native American blood during their Tribal enrollment process!
The children also need clean water w/o mercury contamination. They will have a difficult life & poor health or death. Generations will suffer from these poisoned rivers for water supply.
Maybe the river water can be treated w/ bacteria
w/c reduce ionic mercury to elemental mercury. From there, it might be easier to remove it. Not sure how to remove a liquid metal from water but it’s heavier so it sinks.
This is disgusting. Trading people’s lives and health for the almighty dollar. So sad.
Our president Akufo Addo is behind all this illegal mining. Our leaders are fu(Ked up.
What’s legal ?
The kids also require access to pure water free of mercury pollution. They’ll either have a miserable existence with bad health or pass away. These poisoned rivers’ water source will cause generations of people to suffer.
Perhaps bacteria can be used to clean river water to turn ionic mercury into elemental mercury. It could be simpler to take it out from there. Unsure of the best way to remove a liquid metal from water, yet it sinks because it is heavier.
Africa is its own worst enemy.
What’s really needed: education AND awareness in the most fundamental forms, to include family planning. Governments/laws? 🤣 gl with that! Inutile and GREEDY “leadership” is what got us all here in the first place.
This is just the usual capitalism world we live in where money is more important than any life. So not news worthy.
Water is Life so those who pollute water are murderers and murderers don’t have a place in a civilized society
1:25 Those machines, are they also mining illegally or is that controlled in some way?
The current President Akufo Addo promised Ghanaians in his election campaign and after taking office to put his Presidency on the line to fight against Illegal Mining in Ghana but its himself, members of his Govt, cousins, family and friends that are involved in the Illegal mining in Ghana. He appointed a professor to investigate illegal mining and after submitting the report to Akufo Addo, he sat on the report for 2.5yr until few months ago that the report got leaked with his name, members of his govt and Cousins names mentioned in the report. Now Akufo Addo has connived with the Special Prosecutor of Ghana to Jail the professor (Professor Frimpong Boateng) for exposing this current President Akufo Addo, his relatives and party members of involving in illegal mining