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Body of suspected illegal miner who went missing retrieved

The body of a suspected illegal artisanal miner who went missing has been retrieved from Newmont Ghana’s Ahafo mine’s operational area with the assistance of local police. The body was located, identified and retrieved from an illegal mining pit dug within the Ahafo mine’s Apensu pit area on Friday, June …

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Talensi: Body of missing miner in Gbane pit collapse retrieved

The body of a missing small-scale miner was retrieved from one of the mining pits that got flooded and trapped 17 men at Gbane, a mining community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region. He was among 10 miners killed when a downpour on Monday night flooded the …

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Small-scale miners hints of going to court over galamsey fight if negotiations with govt fail

• Small-scale miners are engaging the government to address the burning of excavators • The Association disclosed they will go to court to seek redress • Some small-scale miners have got their excavators destroyed by the Operation Halt team Abdul Razack Alhassan, the Spokesperson for the Ghana National Association of …

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Small arms commission destroys 1,194 weapons

The National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons have destroyed a total 1,194 confiscated illicit weapons today, Thursday, 5 November 2020 at the Sekondi Prisons Park in the Western region. These weapons were confiscated in the Western and Western North Regions only. Speaking at a short ceremony prior to …

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President of Concerned Small Scale Released After NDC Protest

President of the Concerned Small Scale Miners Association, Michael Kwadwo Peprah, who was arrested by the Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service, has been granted bail. Mr. Peprah was arrested on Saturday, August 29, 2020, in Kumasi for allegedly causing fear and panic with a Facebook post. He …

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Why President of Concerned Small Scale miners was arrested

President of the Concerned Small Miners, Micheal Peprah, was arrested because of a video he took at the residence of the Environment Minister, Professor Frimpong Manso. According to confirmed sources at the Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service available to MyNewsGh.com, there was a court order for his …

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