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Galamsey Queen Update: Ghana’s President Digs the Hole Deeper

by Cobus van Staden
File image of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. Issouf SANOGO / AFP

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has poured gasoline on the controversy around the recent re-arrest of En (aka Aisha) Huang, a Chinese national accused of returning to Ghana to engage in illegal gold mining despite being deported four years ago for similar crimes. 

The president mused: “I’m not still sure whether she (Aisha Huang) was in fact deported or whether she fled the country the first time, and has now come back”

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