Ghana has ordered foreigners to exit its gold trading market by the end of the month, a new government body said on Monday, as the West African country looks to streamline gold purchases from ...

The News. Ghana’s new gold industry regulator ordered all foreign players to exit the local market by the end of the month as the West African country looks to curb smuggling and streamline gold ...

At an unlicensed gold mine in Ghana, men in t-shirts, shorts and rubber boots wade through pools of muddy water laced with mercury, pull out rocks with bare hands and operate a rickety sluice as ...

Ghana has banned all foreigners from trading in its local gold market as part of efforts to boost national revenue and streamline the country's mining sector. It follows the enactment of a new law ...

Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, home to the world’s largest secondhand clothing market, caught fire during the early morning hours of Jan. 2; by the time the blaze was extinguished, hundreds ...

Ghana's informal economy suffered an enormous blow after a fire engulfed the Kantamanto used clothes market late Wednesday, displacing thousands of traders and destroying goods worth millions of ...

By Priscilla Oye Ofori/ Eunice Hilda A. Mensah Accra, May 19, GNA— Female traders in the Accra Central Business District have called for flood resistant market infrastructure to reduce financial ...

Ghana has given foreign traders until May 1 to quit its gold trading market, paving the way for a new government-controlled body to have a monopoly on buying and selling the metal. The ...

Ghana's informal economy has suffered an enormous blow after a fire engulfed the Kantamanto used clothes market in the capital on Thursday, destroying more than 100 shops and goods worth millions ...

A Jan. 2 blaze ripped through Kantamanto Market in Ghana's capital city of Accra, destroying millions of items of used clothing, and jeopardizing the livelihoods of more than 300,000 people.

Ghana has banned all foreigners from trading in its local gold market as part of efforts to boost national revenue and streamline the country's mining sector. It follows the enactment of a new law ...

Ghana bans foreigners from trading in its gold market to boost revenue. 15 April 2025. Share Save. Thomas Naadi & Wycliffe Muia. BBC News, Accra and Nairobi.