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A joint operation by the Forestry Commission (FC) and the Ghana Armed Forces has led to the seizure of nine excavators and a bulldozer being used for illegal mining activities in the Tano Anwia Forest Reserve, located in the Enchi Forest District of the Western North Region. The...

Organised Labour has declared a nationwide strike to back their demand for an outright ban on all forms of small-scale mining as a measure to halt the illegal mining menace in the country.  The industrial action takes effect from Thursday, October 10, 2024. The decision was...

Galamsey kingpin, En Huang, also known as Aisha Huang, was Monday jailed four-and-a-half years for engaging in illegal mining by the Accra High Court. The jail term was in respect of offences she committed between 2015 and 2017 before she was first deported in 2018 following the...

Aisha Huang, the ‘galamsey kingpin’ who was deported in 2019 is back in Ghana and has been re-arrested for engaging in illegal mining. She has been slapped with two charges which are: mining without licence, engaging in the sale and purchase of minerals without a valid licence....