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Ghana Airways, the bankrupt state airline, is to get a helping hand from an unlikely and controversial source ­ two Mormon-owned companies from Salt Lake City in the United States. One, Sentry Financial International, is already known to Africa Confidential readers as the company helping to finance the Zimbabwe government's secret grain imports, despite its protestations of a bumper harvest this year....

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United States, Zimbabwe, J. Ralph Atkin, Kenya, Dutch, France, British, Brian Davies, John Kufuor, E.K. Dwemoh, Africa Confidential

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