{"id":194321,"date":"2025-03-23T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-war-on-galamsey-intensifies-60-excavators-seized-small-scale-mining-licences-issued-after-december-7-2024-revoked-buah\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:26:52","slug":"ghana-war-on-galamsey-intensifies-60-excavators-seized-small-scale-mining-licences-issued-after-december-7-2024-revoked-buah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-war-on-galamsey-intensifies-60-excavators-seized-small-scale-mining-licences-issued-after-december-7-2024-revoked-buah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: War On Galamsey Intensifies &#8211; 60 Excavators Seized! &#8230;Small-Scale Mining Licences Issued After December 7, 2024 Revoked &#8211; Buah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Sixty excavators used by illegal miners have been confiscated by the Anti-Galamsey Taskforce as part of the operations to rid the country of illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The confiscation followed multiple operations conducted by the taskforce in some of the highly endemic illegal mining communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Armah Kofi-Buah, who disclosed this at a news briefing in Accra yesterday, said the confiscated machines would be deployed to rural communities for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503200414.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty excavators used by illegal miners have been confiscated by the Anti-Galamsey Taskforce as part of the operations to rid the country of illegal miners. The confiscation followed multiple operations conducted by the taskforce in some of the highly endemic illegal mining communities across the country. The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Armah Kofi-Buah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,50936,6939,32578,8108,4508,4509,8013,20422,14880,6477,257,14495,7936,18027,254,6618],"class_list":["post-194321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buah","tag-december","tag-excavators","tag-galamsey","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-intensifies","tag-issued","tag-licences","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-revoked","tag-seized","tag-smallscale","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}