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 conditions that could be exploited by Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), the Sahel’s most powerful…
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