Inside Ghana’s Gold Royalty Battle: Record prices, foreign pressure and billions at stake

2026-03-07 - 00:05

Ghana’s attempt to increase how much it earns from its gold industry has opened an intense debate that now stretches beyond Parliament and into global diplomacy. The country, Africa’s largest gold producer, is proposing a significant change to the royalties paid by mining companies for extracting gold from its soil. Government officials argue that the