Ghana's war on illegal mining has failed—we set out to find out why

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Aug 18, 2025, 11:50 pm124 ptsTrending
Early in his eight-year tenure, in 2017, then Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo declared a moratorium on all small-scale gold mining. He established an inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining and a joint military-police taskforce—Operation Vanguard—to enforce the ban.

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