This gold boom has reinforced Ghana’s position as one of Africa’s leading gold producers, attracting foreign investment and ...

A miners' association said the victims were unarmed. The army said seven illegal miners were killed in a firefight.

Illegal and small-scale mining known as galamsey is contaminating the country’s rivers and soil, activists say.

Ghana plans to launch a Gold Board to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce ...

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have applauded the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) for its latest directive ...

Ghana -- Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country's military said. Ghana’s armed forces said Sunday in a statement on X that around 60 ...

Tuesday issued a directive to all individuals and entities involved in illegal mining (galamsey) in and near water bodies to ...

President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday reiterated Government’s commitment to ban mining in all forest reserves of the nation. “Let me take this opportunity to state that it shall be the policy of ...

Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country's military said. Ghana’s armed forces said Sunday in a statement on X that around 60 “illegal miners” ...

About 60 illegal miners carrying locally manufactured rifles and other weapons breached the Obuasi mine's security fence.