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Ghana's Ruthless Corporate Gold Rush
Multinational gold mining firms in Ghana are prepared to use extreme violence to protect their property, a BBC investigation has discovered. Fifteen people have been shot, two fatally, in mining-related incidents in the past 12 months in the west African country. One company, Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC) [part of AngolGold Ashanti]...has been accused of a cover up after a man was allegedly shot on its land.