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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(NewsNation) — The price of gold is forecast to rise above $3,100 per troy ounce in the coming months, and scammers are capitalizing on the interest to con people out of their money. Interest in gold ...

ACCRA, Ghana — A newly created regulatory body for gold exports from Ghana announced Monday that foreigners would no longer be allowed to buy or trade artisanaly mined gold in the country, Africa’s ...

ACCRA, April 30 (Reuters) - Ghana has reached a deal with nine more mining companies to purchase 20% of their gold production, a government body said on Wednesday, aiming to consolidate a gold ...

As the gold price crossed $3,200 per ounce for the first time, Ghana, a major gold producer, has officially centralized control over its gold exports under a newly established government entity.

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 ...

With cocoa prices soaring to a record $12,000 per tonne and gold reaching a global high of $3,500 an ounce this year, Ghana – blessed with fertile land and abundant mineral wealth – should be on the ...