Operation Vanguard

Operation Vanguard
DateJuly 2017
Location
Ghana
Status

Ongoing

  • 1,000 illegal artisanal miners arrested. 340 makeshift accommodations destroyed (January 2018).[1]
  • 3002 Chang-fa machines (floating devices) destroyed (January 2018)[2]
Belligerents
Ghana Armed Forces, Ghana Police Service Galamseyers
Commanders and leaders

Col. William N Nortey, Amr,

Special Monitoring Nana Yaw Boadu
Units involved
4 FOB
Strength
400[3][4] ?

Operation Vanguard is a military police joint task force (JTF) set up by the President of Ghana in 2017 to combat illegal mining, known as galamsey. Over the years, the practice has depleted Ghana's forest cover and polluted bodies of water due to the crude and unregulated nature of the mining process.[5]

  1. ^ "New chapter for Operation Vanguard". Ghana Web. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  2. ^ "About 1000 illegal miners arrested". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  3. ^ "'Operation Vanguard'—A Timely Saviour of our Environment". Government of Ghana. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  4. ^ Awiah, Dominic Moses (2017-08-01). "'Operation Vanguard' launched to wipe out galamsey". Graphic Online. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  5. ^ Gyekye, Joyce. "MD of Ghana Water Company Limited says fight against galamsey is being lost". Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2018-05-22.