Sources: BBC
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
Militants kill at least one soldier and one civilian in the Karma gold mine in Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso. 2022-06-9
Brazil, Greece and Ghana report their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-8
Ghana receives 1.5 million doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by Germany. 2021-09-26
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
Two Canadian women who were abducted in Ghana are rescued by Ghanaian police. 2019-06-12
An explosion at a liquefied natural gas depot leads to a second explosion at a gas station in Legon, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital Accra, killing at least seven people and injuring sixty-eight more. 2017-10-7
At least 19 people are killed as a gold mine collapses in Tanzania's Msalala district. 2015-04-18
An Allied Air cargo plane crashes into a minibus after overshooting the runway at Accra's Kotoka International Airport in Ghana killing at least twelve people. 2012-06-2
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