Ghana’s Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 participated in the 8th Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) global conference in Paris, France. Dr Bawumia was a panellist at the high-level discussion on EITI’s role in addressing corruption in the extractive sector, highlighting some of the significant corruption risks that EITI is currently addressing. The Vice-President highlighted Ghana’s …

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has begun an engagement with the Ghana Chamber of Mines and some mining companies to locally process 30 per cent of the gold mined in the country. This is to tap into the synergies along the value chain of the mining industry to ensure that the state derives fair returns from the extractive …