Tag: galamsey
A/R: 27 suspected illegal miners arrested with explosives, tramadol
Operation Vanguard personnel in the Ashanti Region on Thursday, December 5, 2019 arrested 27 illegal miners during a search in the Bosome Freho...
E/R: Fake Operation Vanguard soldiers arrested with rifles, ammunition
Three persons including a soldier have been arrested for posing as personnel of Operation Vanguard — a task force enforcing the ban on illegal...
Blame galamsey for mine-related accidents – Minister
The Ministry of Lands and Natural resources believes the rise in mining-site accidents is due to the activities of illegal miners.
Benito Owusu Bio, Deputy...
42 suspected illegal miners arrested in Eastern region
At least 42 suspected illegal miners have been arrested over their alleged involvement in illegal mining in Ghana.
According to the task force fighting the...
Lifting the lid on Ghana’s illegal small-scale mining problem
Small-scale gold mining in what is modern day Ghana can be traced as far back as the 15th century. It continues to be an...
Four more suspected Chinese illegal miners arrested in Ashanti region
The anti-illegal mining taskforce in Ghana - Operation Vanguard - has arrested four more Chinese nationals suspected of engaging in illegal mining activities.
The arrest...
It was a mistake to deport Galamsey Queen Aisha Huan –...
Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo has confessed his government made a mistake to deport Chinese illegal mining queen Aisha Huang from Ghana.
“I think the decision...
Man, 48, found dead in abandoned gold pit in Ashanti region
The body of a 48-year-old man named Frank Acheampong was found on Sunday in a water-filled pit at Manso Aboabo, a community in the...
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...
