Ghana is set to begin refining its own gold from February 1, 2026, following a landmark agreement between the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) and Gold Coast Refinery.

Gold mining has a long history in West Africa, with economies based on the precious metal. But today, a large chunk of Ghana's gold revenues vanish into the unofficial, and untraceable, trade.The ...

More than six decades after independence, President John Dramani Mahama,  envisioned domestic gold refining, and helped in ...

A miner searches for gold at a mine outside Kumasi. Editor at Large Drive an hour south of Kumasi, Ghana’s bustling second city, and before long the dense jungle gives way to denuded hills peppered ...

By Kwame A APEANINGFor over a century, Ghana has been told a powerful story: gold is wealth, gold is progress, gold is prosperity. Governments chase it, investors worship it, and communities sacrifice ...