Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A protest demanding government action on illegal gold mining in Accra, 3 October 2024. (AFP - NIPAH DENNIS) Pressure is mounting ...

Cassius Mining has increased its compensation claim against Ghana to US$905 million in ongoing arbitration proceedings, a ...

By Emelia B. Addae Koforidua, April 15, GNA – Zijin Golden Ridge Limited, a mining company operating in Ghana, has marked its ...

Illegal small-scale mining locally known as galamsey has become a national crisis in Ghana. Rivers such as the Pra, Ankobra, ...

The Tarkwa area has long been recognized as one of Ghana’s most important gold mining hubs. Situated within the prolific ...

Friar Joseph Kwame Blay, center, a Ghanaian Franciscan Catholic Pries and native of Jema, and members of a local anti-illegal gold mining task force patrol a forest reserve in the Jema community in ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Catholic bishops in Ghana have again raised alarm over the scale of illegal mining in the country, saying that what should have been a national blessing has turned out to be a ...

The Ghana Chamber of Mines welcomes ongoing efforts by stakeholders to interrogate the drivers of exchange rate volatility ...

President John Mahama is facing mounting public pressure to revoke Ghana‘s controversial mining law that permits operations in protected forest reserves, which environmentalists warn could devastate ...

On Dec. 10, 2025, Ghana’s government revoked one of the worst pieces of environmental legislation in our country’s history. The decision to therefore ban mining in Ghana’s forest reserves marked a ...

JEMA, Ghana (AP) — As day broke in a remote part of western Ghana, a priest, farmers and other residents combed through the forests, looking for signs of illegal gold mining. They have done this for ...