As the MVP winds down, improvements for residents in Ghana’s Bonsaaso village are being put at risk by gold mining The inhabitants of a cluster of small villages around Bonsaaso , in Ghana’s heavily forested Ashanti region, are used to foreign visitors frequenting their dirt roads. But although Bonsaaso is the centre of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) – a high-profile scheme for alleviating poverty by developing health, education, infrastructure, agriculture and business – another outside intervention has impacted locals more. The presence of Chinese goldminers involved in galamsey , the local name for surface mining, has altered the local landscape

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