By: Kwadwo Kyei Yamoah, Executive Director: HELP Foundation Africa. Convener: Fisheries Alliance / CSOs SDG 14 Platform, (+233 244817020) kkyeiyams@gmail.com. Executive Summary Ghana’s fisheries sector supports over 3 million livelihoods and provides more than 60 percent of national animal protein. Yet the sector faces a severe decline in fish stocks due to Illegal, Unreported and…
Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah, Executive Director of HELP Foundation Africa
The mob attacks in anti-galamsey enforcement are not spontaneous community reactions. They are often the product of calculated strategic mobilization by kingpins and political activists, because of anticipated immunity from sanction. Until incentives shift to increase the cost of interference and reduce the political value of defending galamsey, such behaviour is likely to persist. The…
Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah, Executive Director of HELP Foundation Africa
Illegal mining (Galamsey) in Ghana is having serious and multifaceted negative effects on fisheries, from the rivers and estuaries inland all the way to coastal marine systems. Overall, galamsey undermines fisheries by polluting waters, destroying habitats, reducing fish reproduction and survival, and reducing incomes and food security. The effects are felt inland (in rivers) and…
Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah, Executive Director of HELP Foundation Africa
Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah, the Executive Director of HELP Foundation Africa and also the convener for Fisheries Alliance explained that the nexus between World Environment Day 2025 and World Ocean Day 2025 lies in the shared focus on environmental protection, particularly plastic pollution and sustainable ecosystems. World Ocean Day 2025’s theme, “Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us”,…
Mr. Kwadwo Kyei Yamoah, the Executive Director of HELP Foundation Africa, addressing journalists in Accra expressed that affected communities and Environmentalists are frustrated over the lack of law enforcement regarding the illegal mining activities. He described GALAMSEY situation as an emergency and called on the government to enforce the laws against galamsey without delay. He explained…
February 20th is World Social Justice Day and as part of the commemoration the families of missing Fisheries Observers in Ghana joined international organizations including the International Association for Professional Observers (APO). and Ghanaian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to raise attention on the cases of missing Fisheries Observers in Ghana and seek JUSTICE. The background…
