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The Ghana Armed Forces reportedly deployed its personnel to Obuasi on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, over the commotion surrounding reports of illegal miners being trapped in a mine shaft belonging to AngloGold. It is not clear why the military personnel were deployed but a video shared by Kumasi-based Oyerepa TV showed them trying to control an aggrieved crowd of people. The army personnel arrived in some of their military vehicles and they were more than fifty in number. They started firing warning shots after some residents started pelting stones at them. The personnel could also be seen preventing some youth…