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NEW LAW: Ghana to jail illegal miners for 25 years
Ghanaian president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has given his assent to the Vigilantism and Related Offences Act, 2019, which bans acts of vigilantism in...
W/R: Seven die in collapsed illegal mining pit
Seven persons have been killed after an illegal mining pit collapsed on Thursday at Wassa-Manso in the Mpohor District of the Western Region.
Local media...
Ghana arrests seven Chinese illegal miners
Seven Chinese nationals suspected of mining illegally in Western Ghana have been arrested, the task force against the illegal act announced.
The Operation Vanguard team...
Ghana arrests 37 suspected illegal miners
Ghana's anti-illegal mining taskforce Operation Vanguard have arrested 37 suspected illegal miners in the Western and Ashanti regions.
Thirty Ghanaian suspected illegal miners were...
How gold miners are dying slowly in Ghana
A few years after coming as a teenager to this Ghanaian town to prospect for gold, Yaw Ngoha had made enough cash to marry...
Akrokeri: One body recovered from collapsed mining pit as rescue mission...
The body of one of the two persons who got trapped in a collapsed mining pit at Bronikrom in Akrokeri, in the Ashanti Region,...
50 illegal miners arrested in Ghana
Fifty suspected illegal miners in the Western and Eastern regions have been arrested in various operations conducted over the past week, according to Operation Vanguard.
On...
A/R: Operation Vanguard arrests seven illegal miners in Amansie Central District
Operation Vanguard has arrested
seven suspected illegal miners in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti
region.
The arrest which was effected at
about 3:30 am on Monday...
Four Chinese illegal miners arrested with rifles
Four Chinese illegal miners have been arrested in the Western region of Ghana, task force officials announced.
The Operation Vanguard Joint Task Force rounded up...
How satellite data can fight illegal mining in Ghana
Ghana was called the “Gold Coast” for a very specific reason. The West African country’s hills and rivers are flush with the precious metal....
