{"id":216735,"date":"2025-12-15T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-unlicensed-gold-mining-trade-leave-northern-ghana-exposed-to-jnim-terrorists-report\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:29:25","slug":"nigeria-unlicensed-gold-mining-trade-leave-northern-ghana-exposed-to-jnim-terrorists-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-unlicensed-gold-mining-trade-leave-northern-ghana-exposed-to-jnim-terrorists-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Unlicensed Gold Mining, Trade Leave Northern Ghana Exposed to Jnim Terrorists &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>The report revealed that Ghanaian citizens are engaged in trade with JNIM, sometimes knowingly and at other times unknowingly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Ghana&#8217;s northern gold-mining belt faces growing exposure to extremist operations, new research has shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">The<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalinitiative.net\/analysis\/violent-extremist-threats-to-northern-ghanas-gold-sector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a><\/strong>, published by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/globalinitiative.net\/about-us\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime<\/a><\/strong>, 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512150061.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>The report revealed that Ghanaian citizens are engaged in trade with JNIM, sometimes knowingly and at other times unknowingly. Ghana&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216736,"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":[258,256,17189,4508,4509,4644,53140,6775,6477,257,4687,4282,5144,254,1775,5979,7767],"class_list":["post-216735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exposed","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-gold","tag-jnim","tag-leave","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-northern","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorists","tag-trade","tag-unlicensed"],"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\/216735","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=216735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}