Sources: BBC
Six people are killed in a stampede during a military recruitment event in Accra, Ghana. 2025-11-12
Six people are killed and eleven others are injured in a mining accident at a gold mine in Mwakitolyo Village, Shinyanga Urban District, Tanzania. 2025-05-18
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
Thirteen artisanal miners, including three children, are killed when a tunnel at a gold mine floods after a reservoir spill in Kangaba, Koulikoro, Mali. 2025-01-29
Nine Chinese nationals are killed and two others are injured when suspected rebels storm the Chinese-run Chimbolo gold mine in Ouaka, Central African Republic. 2023-03-19
Ghana becomes the first country in the world to receive vaccines distributed through the COVAX initiative, with 600,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine. 2021-02-24
The death toll from an explosion at a gasoline station on Wednesday in the Ghanaian capital Accra rises to over 200. 2015-06-5
More than 60 miners die when a recently reopened gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan. 2013-05-2
At least six people are dead and another six missing after a landslide at an illegal gold mine in the Bogor district in Indonesia's West Java area. 2012-05-26
Ghana is to begin pumping its first oil since a discovery in an offshore field three years ago. 2010-12-15