Child Rights International is calling for the arrest and prosecution of parents who engage their children in illegal mining. According to the organisation, its latest findings on child exploitation in mining communities point to an alarming increase in the engagement of children as labourers on mining concession sites with at least four in every five […]
Over 30 illegal miners are feared dead at Banda Nkwanta at Bole in the Northern Region of Ghana after a mine pit in the Mole National Park in which they were working caved in on them Monday evening. Six bodies have so far been retrieved from the pit in which they where prospecting for Gold. An
Dr. Samuel Sarpong, Ashanti Regional Minister, has inaugurated an eight-member committee to regulate and streamline the activities of illegal mining in the region. The eight-member committee would be chaired by the Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yammin. Membership of the committee comprises the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye, Commander of the Fourth Battalion
By Isaac Kojo Bediako Subriso Fante – Ghana – Six people have died after a mining pit collapsed on them at Subrisu Fante in the Ahafo Ano North District of the Ashanti region in Ghana. Several others sustained various degrees of injuries and were sent to Tepa government hospital for treatement. The illegal miners were
By Kwesi E. Baako “If African governments are going to sell out cheap to them and not project their own worth; if they are going to treat their trade as alms (when in fact they are also getting something back); if they are going to go back down that road of letting down their guard
