Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country's military said. Ghana’s armed forces said Sunday in a statement on X that around 60 “illegal miners” carrying locally manufactured rifles and other weapons breached the security fences of the Obuasi gold mining site in the Ashanti region on Saturday night.

Kofi Adams, local chairman of the Ghana National Association of Small ... in the incident at the Obuasi gold mining site in the West African country's Ashanti Region. He said the people had ...