Nine persons have so far been confirmed dead in Saturday’s violent clash between some illegal miners and the military in Obuasi. The miners are reported to have breached a security fence at one ...

Students in both public and private schools in Obuasi in the Ashanti region will miss classroom hours amidst tensions in the gold mining town for the next two days. Some illegal miners in the ...

Yarhands Dissou Arthur has described the killing of seven illegal miners by soldiers at the Anglogold Ashanti mine in Obuasi as an act of retaliation by the military. According to him, the ...

Hell broke loose at Obuasi, one of Ghana’s major mining communities in the Ashanti Region, on Sunday, January 19, 2025, when personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces clashed with some youth in the area.

A violent clash between illegal miners and military men guarding AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine’s concession at Cote D’or, a popular area in the mining town of Obuasi has left 10 people dead with ...

Ghana President John Mahama don direct say make di police investigate one deadly clash between soldiers and residents for Aglogold Ashanti im Obuasi gold mine wey kill eight pipo. Di clash happun ...

The government has expressed deep regret over the death of eight people, said to be illegal miners, following a violent clash at a mining site at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. In response to the ...

LOS ANGELES—The battle against the most destructive wildfires Los Angeles has ever faced is starting to turn a corner. Powerful winds that fueled the rapid spread of deadly fires for more than a ...

A representative of the miners denied that they had been armed. Following news of the deaths, there were protests in Obuasi town where several buses were set on fire. Angry residents poured onto ...

Kofi Adams, local chairman of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners, told Reuters that nine people had been killed and fourteen severely injured in the incident at the Obuasi gold ...