Ghana, Africa’s top gold producer, has launched its most aggressive mining audit in a decade, targeting top miners to recover lost revenue and tighten oversight, a government letter seen by Reuters ...

Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has criticised Ghana’s political class for what he describes as a lack of genuine commitment to ending illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey.

A video circulating on social media shows how a police reinforcement team rescued nine officers of the Ghana Armed Forces at ...

Africa’s gold industry is undergoing a powerful transformation as local entrepreneurs increasingly take control of a sector ...

In a report shared at the 5th West African Mining Host Communities Indaba, the executive director of Global Rights Nigeria, Abiodun Baiyewu, explained that many illegal mining operations in Africa are ...

A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who ...

Cape Coast, Oct 31, GNA – The Association of Health Administrators of Ghana (AHSAG), has called on President John Dramani Mahama, to as a matter of urgency, impose an immediate, temporary ban on all ...

Osei Accra, Oct 31, GNA – Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Friday, October 31, formally laid the Environmental ...

Olga González, a gemologist and communications strategist, examines the urgent global challenge of mercury pollution in ...

Fiscal stability and fair tax and royalty systems are vital if countries want to attract mining investment, Newmont CEO Tom ...