By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila DAKAR, March 5 (Reuters) - China, the U.S. and other Western governments have mounted an unusually coordinated push to get Ghana to halt a gold royalty hike they say could ...

The Ghanaian government has announced a scheme to buy 127 tonnes of gold from “artisanal” and small-scale mining (ASM) every ...

By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila CAPE TOWN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Ghana produced a record 6 million ounces of gold in 2025, according to provisional data, with large‑scale mines contributing 2.9 million ...

Economist and political risk specialist Dr Theo Acheampong, now Technical Advisor at the Ministry of Finance, says Ghana’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An illegal artisanal miner inspects an excavated rock for traces of gold at the Prestea-Huni Valley Municipal District ...

Ghana, Africa's leading gold producer, is launching a plan to reclaim billions lost to gold smuggling, with significant ...

Uganda has become the latest country in Africa to adopt Ghana's pioneering lead of its central bank buying domestic gold to ...

Gold mining has a long history in West Africa, with economies based on the precious metal. But today, a large chunk of Ghana's gold revenues vanish into the unofficial, and untraceable, trade.The ...

The Member of Parliament for Tano North, Dr Gideon Boako, has called on Parliament to institute a bi-partisan investigation into what he describes as a suspicious sale of 18 tonnes of Ghana rsquo;s ...

Ghana plans to channel about 127 metric tons of gold per year from artisanal and small‑scale mining (ASM) into official trade under revised sector reforms to boost foreign-exchange earnings and stem ...

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 ...