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Gold remains Ghana’s second biggest export after cocoa. But there is concern communities in areas where the mineral is mined are still suffering various human rights abuses.
Although there has been a lot of campaign, championed by the United Nations, against this state of affairs it appears very little has changed.
For Hotline this week Benjamin Tetteh shares the story of how people in the Western Regional town of Dumase still live in highly polluted environments with rivers and streams poisoned by mining activities there.
It's on the Super Morning Show at 8:30 am.
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