In October 2025, gold's spot price pushed past $4,000/oz — more than 50% up this year. That move has turned a slow reserve-management shift into a sprint. The aims are to diversify away from the ...

By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila DAKAR, May 18 (Reuters) - Ghana has asked large-scale gold miners to sell 30% of annual output ...

In 2022, Ghana launched a gold purchase program requiring 20 percent of annual production to be delivered to the central bank. As a result, the Ghanaian cedi stabilized and the economy recovered from ...

When news broke on Tuesday that three illegal miners had died after being trapped inside an abandoned pit in Ghana’s Western Region, it offered a grim reminder of a deadly contradiction at the heart ...

Ghana’s export earnings climbed sharply to $11.1 billion in the first four months of 2025, as soaring global gold prices strengthened the country’s trade position and boosted foreign reserves. ・Ghana ...

As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse. An unhappy prospect: A group of men engaged in illegal gold mining ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Email (Opens in new window) Ghana ...

A 'Fine Gold" mark on a 500 gram gold bar. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images GHANA has raised the share of annual gold output that large-scale miners must sell to the central ...

Economist and lecturer at the University of Ghana, Patrick Asuming, has warned that Ghana cannot rely on short-term gains in the value of the cedi without making bigger changes to the structure of the ...