The case of the AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine in Ghana

The Iduapriem gold mine is owned by Anglo Gold Ashanti, the second largest gold mining company worldwide, based in South Africa. The World Bank owns part and has invested into the mine for more than ten years. The mine is located in the Wassa West District, Ghana, which has the highest concentration of gold mines in Africa. What the Iduapriem mine does to the local communities is to literally eat up their land and local infrastructure: farming gets increasingly impossible, water supplies become short or contaminated and children have dropped out of school because they cannot reach there anymore. Teberebie is a resettlement village of 700 inhabitants. They have already lost their traditional lands, now they are loosing the land they farm to a huge waste rock dump. In 2004, an agreement was reached to provide the farmers with new land. So far this commitment is on paper only.

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• iduapriem
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• ghana
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• anglogold

[tappakeggaday1]

I just watched some more videos on this subject,I am truly sorry because now I understand that between big corporations and your own government they don't give you much of a choice except to live as nomads or die.Corporate greed has turned all of us regular citizens into slaves of our own systems and it is hard to try to live within them.i will say if there is gold on your own land they haven't gotten to yet get it for yourselves and quickly

[tappakeggaday1]

if they are living so close to a gold field why not dig some around their own homes to see if they can get some gold off of their own land?is it against the law there to do that?it might be worth it to them to do it then again it might not but if i had gold in my yard I would be digging it up myself and buy some more land

[HORADEFE1]

ANGLO GOLD CAME BACK YOUR HOUSE. OUT ROR AFRIKA.. AFRIKA NOT NEED YOU

[eduigenan]

Anglo gold are now exploring near where I live in Jericó, Antioquia Colombia, South America. They are now in the third stage of exploration. Very few people have heard of the negative efects of open cast mining in the district. They have given lap-tops as bribes to the farmers living nearby. I intend to make videos like this one more public.

[KomperdaJ]

i feel very sad, i like these peoples and lands throw out the explioters

[NimbaFalcon]

This is the biggest problem we Africans have... the short sided leadership across the continent. We don't have leaders. We have lap dogs for global corporations, little kiss asses to the white boys that maintain the global White Supremacy system. These leaders are relics of the past!

This is just one of many situations across the continent. We need to overthrow these capitalist governments and use a system where we have collective decision making for the security and development of the people.

[sinfreeman1]

African leaders are fools and not wise they have all what takes to better the lives of their citizens but they allow people to make money from their lands!! ARISE AFRICA!!!!