Sources: BBC
The bodies of nine illegal miners trapped inside a gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, are recovered by police. 2025-01-16
Thirty-five civilians are killed during an attack on a gold mine by CODECO rebels in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2022-05-8
An outbreak is declared at a gold mine in Yukon after three people tested positive for COVID-19. 2021-06-6
Voters in Ghana head to the polls to elect their president as well as the members of parliament. Current president Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party is expected to have a tight race with his most promising challenger, John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress. 2020-12-7
Three miners are missing but dozens have been rescued following a gold mine collapse in South Africa. 2016-02-5
The death toll from an explosion at a gasoline station on Wednesday in the Ghanaian capital Accra rises to over 200. 2015-06-5
At least 11 people are killed in a fire at a filling station in the Ghanaian capital Accra. 2015-06-3
More than 60 miners die when a recently reopened gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan. 2013-05-2
Ghana says a threat of force by the Economic Community of West African States to remove Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo would "not bring about peace" in the country. 2011-01-7