Ghana: Ghana’s War On Illegal Mining Has Failed – We Set Out to Find Out Why

August 18, 2025
[The Conversation Africa] 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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