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The Savannah Regional Police Intelligence Department has arrested 22 Togolese nationals over suspected involvement in illegal mining activities in the West Gonja Municipality. The arrests were confirmed by the Ghana Police Service in a statement shared on its official Facebook page. According to the police, the suspects were arrested on …

The National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) has confirmed that one of its task force officers was shot during an anti-galamsey operation in the Bono Region on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. The incident occurred along the Subinkurom–Kyeremasu stretch in the Dormaa Central Municipality, where the task force was conducting an …

An Accra court has granted bail in the sum of GH¢10 million to Kwadwo Owusu Bempah, the Operations Manager of Akonta Mining, with three sureties, one of whom must be justified. Owusu Bempah is the fifth accused person in an ongoing case involving alleged illegal mining activities in the Tano …

The Kibi Magistrate Court in the Abuakwa South Municipality of the Eastern Region has granted bail to five individuals arrested for allegedly impersonating officers of the National Anti-illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS). The court, presided over by Her Worship Juliet Osei-Duedo, approved a bail application filed by lawyers for the …

The government has officially revoked Legislative Instrument (L.I.) 2462, effectively banning all forms of mining in Ghana’s forest reserves. The revocation followed the coming into force of the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Revocation Instrument, 2025, which matured into law on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, after being laid in …

The Koforidua High Court 2 has varied its earlier ruling against the Atiwa East Municipal Chief Executive, Ernest Ntim, by commuting his eight-day jail sentence to a fine of GHC12,000 after finding him in contempt of court over illegal mining activities. The court initially sentenced the MCE to serve a …

The Forestry Commission has arrested 21 people, 11 Chinese nationals and 10 Ghanaians, in a major intelligence-led operation against illegal mining (galamsey) at the Yakombo Forest Reserve in the Savannah Region. The operation was conducted on December 2 by 51 personnel, including forest guards from the Buipe and Bole Forest …