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Ghana, IMF Differ Over Whether Chinese Bauxite Deal Should be Counted as Part of the Country’s National Debt
Ghana is moving to restructure its ballooning debt as part of an IMF rescue plan that's now under discussion between the two sides. As part of the process, Accra is reaching out to both local and international investors ...
Ghana Commissions First Roads Built Under Controversial Bauxite Deal
Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia this week commissioned the first road infrastructure built under a controversial $2 billion resource-for-infrastructure deal with the Chinese conglomerate Sinohydro. Bawumia was eager to claim the inauguration of 441 km of roads in the Cape Coast region as ...
Ghana’s Embassy in China Says It Had Nothing to Do With Aisha Huang’s Return
The Ghanaian government's efforts to distance itself from the exploding controversy over the re-arrest of illegal mining kingpin Aisha Huang (aka "the Galamsey Queen") has now reached the embassy in Beijing, where Ambassador Winfred Nii Okai Hammond said his mission did not issue her visa.
Ghanaian Government Steps Up Illegal Mining Crackdown in the Wake of Aisha Huang Arrest
Ghanaian security forces arrested 164 people last week in a new crackdown on the illegal small-scale gold mining known as "galamsey." Many of those detained are foreigners, mostly from West African countries but none from China. The government's renewed efforts to curtail rampant ...
Galamsey Queen Update: Ghana’s President Digs the Hole Deeper
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 ...
Deportation Lapses Revealed in Ghana’s Illegal Mining Scandal
New revelations about how En (Aisha) Huang, Ghana’s so-called Queen of Galamsey (illegal small-scale gold mining), managed to make her way back to the country despite being deported are adding political heat to an already red-hot controversy. A member of parliament, Samuel ...
Arrest of Ghana’s Chinese Queen of Illegal Gold Mining Embarrasses Government
The re-arrest of a Chinese national deported from Ghana in 2018 for illegal small-scale gold mining (known in Ghana as galamsey) is causing a media sensation and raising many embarrassing questions. Reporting about the arrest of En (aka Aisha) Huang has ...
She’s Baaaaack! The Once Convicted “Galamsey Queen” is Arrested Again For Illegal Mining in Ghana
Aisha Huang made a stunning reappearance in Ghana this week when she appeared in an Accra circuit court with three accomplices to face charges of illegal mining. Huang is one of the most famous characters in Ghana's years-long effort to combat ...
Top Australian Official to Visit Ghana Amid Bitter Sino-Aussie Mining Controversy
Australia's Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts will travel to Ghana later this month to personally intervene in a rapidly escalating three-way controversy involving the Ghanaian government and a pair of mining companies from Australia and China. Last week, the ...
The New U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Speaks Chinese
Washington's new envoy to Ghana, Virginia Palmer, comes to the job with an unusual background for a U.S. diplomat in Africa -- she speaks Chinese! Palmer, according to the U.S. embassy in Accra's official bio, was previously posted to both China and ...
Huawei Quietly Becomes a Dominant Player in Africa’s Burgeoning Mobile Money Sector
Quietly and largely out-of-sight, Chinese telecom giant Huawei is becoming one of the most important actors in Africa's mobile payment business. Many people don't realize that the popular Kenyan mobile payment service M-Pesa runs on Huawei Mobile that each year processes tens of billions of dollars in transactions ...
New U.S. Envoy to Ghana Comes With Considerable China and Energy Experience
The new U.S. ambassador-designate to Ghana, Virginia Palmer, is a veteran diplomat who comes to the job with a 36-year background in African affairs, energy policy and two early-career postings in China and Hong Kong. Prior to arriving in Accra last ...