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May
Three Yemenis arrested by a combined team of Minerals Commission and Artisanal Small-scale Miners (ASM) taskforce on Monday, May 8, 2023, at Asomdwe, a suburb of Akyem Oda for allegedly engaging in illegal mining have denied being illegal miners. The taskforce invaded a new mining site being prepared for community mining operation at Akyem Oda in the Eastern Region, destroyed cables and other equipment and arrested the three Yemenis expatriates, and impounded two excavators. A chief who is also fronting the community mining exercise was also arrested and put behind bars for two days by Police when he went to…