Sources: BBC
The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution proposed by Ghana recognizing the Atlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity and calling for dialogue on reparations, despite opposition and abstentions from Western countries. 2026-03-25
Unknown gunmen attack a Chinese artisanal gold mine in Narena, Koulikoro Region, Mali, killing one Malian and two others from Ghana, and abducting two Chinese nationals. 2025-05-12
A landslide at a clandestine gold mine in Siguiri, Guinea, kills at least fifteen miners. 2021-05-9
Eleven of the miners who went missing two weeks ago in Qixia, Shandong, China, after the gold mine where they worked collapsed, are rescued alive. Another miner is found dead, while ten others are still missing. 2021-01-24
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo announces his country will adopt the eco as its new currency, but insists to fellow members of the currency union that it should not be pegged to the euro. 2019-12-29
Three miners are missing but dozens have been rescued following a gold mine collapse in South Africa. 2016-02-5
Health Ministers from the Economic Community of West African States will meet in Accra, Ghana to discuss the crisis. 2014-08-28
Rescuers in Ghana's Central Region end an operation to search for survivors from a gold mine collapse in which 70 people were thought to be dead. 2010-06-29
During a two-day visit to Ghana, President of Angola José Eduardo dos Santos visits Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra among other engagements. 2010-06-22