Hell broke loose at Obuasi, one of Ghana’s major mining communities in the Ashanti Region, on Sunday, January 19, 2025, when ...

A confrontation at an AngloGold Ashanti mine in Ghana led to nine reported deaths and fourteen injuries, according to a ...

The Ghana Armed Forces said about 60 illegal miners, armed with among others things "pump action guns", had forced their way ...

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

Challenging Heights, a human and environmental rights organisation, is calling for the establishment of a commission of ...

Soldiers killed seven people during a clash with illegal gold miners at the Obuasi mine in Ghana. The incident sparked an ...

Both private and public schools in both Obuasi and Obuasi East municipalities have been temporarily closed down amidst the ...

Seven illegal miners were killed late on Saturday in a firefight with soldiers at an AngloGold Ashanti mine in Ghana, the ...

A Ghanaian small-scale miners' association on Sunday said soldiers killed at least nine unarmed people at an AngloGold ...

ACCRA, Ghana -- Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country's military said.

Seven illegal miners died after they breached a gold mine's security fence carrying rifles and other weapons and engaged in a ...

An incident at AngloGold Ashanti's Obuasi mine in Ghana's Ashanti Region has reportedly resulted in the deaths of seven ...