Nigeria: Unlicensed Gold Mining, Trade Leave Northern Ghana Exposed to Jnim Terrorists – Report

The report revealed that Ghanaian citizens are engaged in trade with JNIM, sometimes knowingly and at other times unknowingly.

Ghana’s northern gold-mining belt faces growing exposure to extremist operations, new research has shown.

The study, published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, a Geneva-based non-profit organisation, showed that the informal nature of artisanal and small-scale gold mining, porous borders with Burkina Faso, and opaque financial flows create…