{"id":39988,"date":"2021-08-10T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39988"},"modified":"2021-08-10T23:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:02:01","slug":"the-illegal-gold-mines-killing-rivers-and-livelihoods-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39988","title":{"rendered":"The illegal gold mines killing rivers and livelihoods in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sixty percent of Ghana\u2019s water bodies are now polluted, largely due to illegal mining activities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ghana is the leading producer of gold in Africa and about 35% of it is extracted by small-scale miners, most of them operating illegally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Over the last few years, the government has been clamping down on their activities, but some communities say they&#8217;re frustrated that they&#8217;re not seeing enough change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Video produced and edited by Sulley Lansah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-58119653\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty percent of Ghana\u2019s water bodies are now polluted, largely due to illegal mining activities. Ghana is the leading producer of gold in Africa and about 35% of it is extracted by small-scale miners, most of them operating illegally. Over the last few years, the government has been clamping down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119880856_p09rw88t.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}