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🇬🇭Ghana's Robin Hoods With Nuance Sitting in the forest with a rifle, guarding a cache - is it Robin Hood? Guerrilla partisan? Answer: illegal gold miners in Ghana. 🌐 Ghana's forest reserves are not only being degraded by the illegal gold mining. In several places, they are taken over by armed groups who consider the forests their property. ➡️ The Ghana Institute of Foresters (yes, there is such a thing)has estimated that 5 forest reserves in the southeastern part of the country are under the control of armed illegal miners, and foresters cannot safely enter them. By early 2025, 9 forest areas had been taken over by militant miners and had almost become their strongholds. Some of them have been liberated, but more than half are still under siege. ➡️ More and more often illegal miners in Ghana take up arms to prevent forest rangers from confiscating their equipment and to avoid prison. Ghana's National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) becomes a target of complex premediated attacks. with ambushes, sieges and involvement of high-profile officials on both sides. These Ghanaian mining guerrillas are a perfect example of what happens when illegal mining and corruption are ignored for too long. Devils Below