Do you remember the Ashanti kingdom and the Golden Stool? The harmattan winds? Growing cocoa and mining gold in Ghana? Visiting the Ashanti heartland was a dream long deferred. But an academic ...

A miners' association said the victims were unarmed. The army said seven illegal miners were killed in a firefight.

His fetish priest was Okomfo Anokye, who unified the Asante states through allegiance to the Golden Stool, which miraculously ... live and become the capital of Ashanti. Hence is derived the ...

ACCRA, Ghana — Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana ... fences of the Obuasi gold mining site in the Ashanti region on Saturday night. The intruders fired ...

told Reuters that nine people had been killed and fourteen severely injured in the incident at the Obuasi gold mining site in the West African country's Ashanti Region. He said the people had not ...