Illegal and small-scale mining known as galamsey is contaminating the country’s rivers and soil, activists say.

Ghana’s top water utility shut down the treatment plant that serves its biggest mining hub following a surge in illegal gold mining that’s polluted the river that supplies the facility.

Ghana's military says that soldiers have killed at least seven people at a gold mine. The West African armed forces said Sunday that around 60 “illegal miners” carrying locally manufactured rifles and

A Ghanaian small-scale miners' association on Sunday said soldiers killed nine unarmed people at an AngloGold Ashanti mine on Saturday night, while the army said seven illegal miners had been killed in a firefight.