Seven illegal miners were killed and one seriously injured during a gun battle with the troops in western Ghana, the military ...

A miners' association said the victims were unarmed. The army said seven illegal miners were killed in a firefight.

Seven illegal miners were killed late on Saturday in a firefight with soldiers at an AngloGold Ashanti mine in Ghana, the ...

The transatlantic slave trade, spearheaded by the dominant African tribe, the Ashanti, resulted in the transportation of between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean ...

Earlier, Ghana's armed forces said that about 60 illegal miners carrying locally manufactured rifles and other weapons ...

ACCRA, Ghana — Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country's military said.

Seven illegal miners died after they breached a gold mine's security fence carrying rifles and other weapons and engaged in a ...

A deadly confrontation between soldiers and illegal miners at the AngloGold Ashanti mine at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, left seven people believed to be illegal miners dead.