Before dawn the recorded radio beat of tom-toms sounded out across the cocoa plantations and straw-hut villages of the Gold Coast, awakening hundreds of African officials and thousands of voters, the ...

Ghana is sometimes referred to as Africa’s “Gold Coast,” because of its abundance of natural resources cocoa and gold. But as the price of gold has been soaring, so has the effort to smuggle it out of ...

(Bloomberg) -- There’s no escaping gold in Tarkwa. It’s in the forest. It’s under your feet as you walk the streets of Ghana’s biggest mining town. It’s the economy. Exposed holes in the ground bear ...

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 ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Citing threats not only to the country’s economy but also its environment and public health, Catholic religious in Ghana have dedicated 2024 to a fight against illegal mining in ...

As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse. An unhappy prospect: A group of men engaged in illegal gold mining ...

This documentary traces how the British colony of the Gold Coast became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957. After World ...

WHAT began as a feel-good story of the Commonwealth Games — how two locals are helping train Ghana’s road cyclists — has escalated into an international diplomatic row. A Bulletin story this week on ...

In one of the most sweeping economic reform packages in recent memory, the Government of Ghana has unveiled a transformational policy agenda backed by over GH¢22 billion in targeted investments to ...

Set to take over the country’s gold trading sector, the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) will replace a patchwork of overlapping state institutions in what its chief executive Sammy Gyamfi calls “a new gold ...

(Reuters) - Ghanaians voted on Sunday in a deciding presidential run-off to choose a successor to President John Kufuor, who is stepping down after two four-year terms, the constitutional limit for ...