Ghana, Africa’s top gold producer, has lost a massive $11.4 billion due to gold smuggling over just five years, a new report by the Swiss nonprofit Swissaid has found. The report uncovered a huge ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana's president launched a special task force on Tuesday to combat rampant illegal gold mining and smuggling that has long plagued the West African nation. The chronic challenge ...

DAKAR (Reuters) -Ghana is losing billions of dollars in revenue annually to smuggling from its booming artisanal gold mining sector with much of the gold flowing to the United Arab Emirates, according ...

Africa stands at a pivotal economic crossroads. The continent is the world’s largest gold-producing region, yet it holds a ...

ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday launched a task force backed by security forces to address illegal gold trading, as Africa's top producer seeks to recover billions of ...

A miner searches for gold at a mine outside Kumasi. Editor at Large Drive an hour south of Kumasi, Ghana’s bustling second city, and before long the dense jungle gives way to denuded hills peppered ...

As part of a sweeping policy shift aimed at tightening control over its most lucrative natural resource, Ghana has banned all foreigners from trading in its domesticgold market BBC reported. The ...

Ghana’s annual trade surplus reached $5 billion in 2024 for the first time ever as the value of the country’s gold exports soared. The excess of merchandise exports over imports widened from $2.7 ...

Galiano Gold owns a 90% interest in the Asanko Gold Mine located in Ghana, West Africa. The remaining 10% is a free-carried interest owned by Ghana's government. As illustrated by B2Gold's and Barrick ...

Ghana wants to optimize the benefits from its largely anarchical artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. For this reason, Africa’s largest gold producer—and the sixth largest in the world—is ...