GOVERNING ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING IN
2021-4-1 · Ghana attempted to curtail informal mining, locally known as galamsey, through military raids. In 2006, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Government, under President Kufour, launched Operation Flush-out, a joint military/police raid targeting unlicensed hard-rock artisanal miners and lasting about six months.
