Newmont briefly suspended operations in 2018 after 6 workers were killed. The information is not really clear if they have resumed operation in this mine where the accident happened or only in the other mines that they also operate in the country.

Newmont briefly suspended operations in 2018 after 6 workers were killed. The company has since resumed operation in this mine where the accident happened.

In 2002, Newmont acquired 50% of Ahafo as a result of the merger with Normandy. In 2003, Newmont purchased the remaining interest from Moydow Mines International Inc. (“Moydow”), thereby making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

The Ahafo Mine is in the process of acquiring land to resettle community members potentially to be impacted by its Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) expansion project

2016 WACAM reports that there was not much employment created for local women in the mine. None of the compensation is received by women, the primary agricultural producers. The miners pay young school girls to have sex with them and teenagers have also been raped.

2016 WACAM reports that there was not much employment created for local women in the mine. None of the compensation is received by women, the primary agricultural producers. The miners pay young school girls to have sex with them and teenagers have also been raped. Women’s Consultative Committee (WCC) Ahafo established the Women’s Consultative Committee (WCC) in 2008 mainly to enhance women’s participation in decision-making. Made up of about 100 members, the committee includes queen mothers and elected representatives of all community women and women’s groups/ associations within the Ahafo mine’s catchment area. The WCC has set up a revolving fund to empower women in the ten host communities economically.