Vol 51 No 7 | GHANA Oil spill 2nd April 2010 No end is in sight to the row between the government and the United States' Kosmos Energy over Kosmos's efforts to sell its equity stake in Ghana's Jubilee oil field to ExxonMobil ...
Vol 51 No 5 | GHANA Oil and optimism 5th March 2010 The President’s grand development plans contrast sharply with partisan manoeuvres in Parliament and beyond In a year’s time Ghana should be producing 150,000 barrels of oil a day and its economy should be growing at well over 10% a year (AC Vol 50 No 25 & Vol 51 No 1). Its party pol...
Vol 51 No 5 | GHANA Burning passions 5th March 2010 A bizarre series of fires at government buildings has led to a whispering campaign reminiscent of the spate of brutal murders before the 2000 election campaign, which Flight Lieut...
Vol 51 No 1 | GHANA Opening time at Osu Castle 8th January 2010 Mills promises more affable politics and a welcome mat for oil companies but cannot ignore market realities or the harsh conditions in the countryside Sporting a sharply-pressed black and white dashiki, President John Evans Atta Mills welcomed journalists into the well-guarded grounds of the Castle in Osu, Accra, on 7 January. On...
Vol 51 No 1 | GHANA The great oil battle begins 8th January 2010 There will be two cheers on 31 October when Ghana is due to produce its first crude oil for export: the missing cheer reflects concern that the country could be sucked into the vor...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | GHANACHINA A consensual affair 21st October 2010 Oppositionists call for scrutiny of the promised financing from Beijing amid concerns over spiralling national debt The stratospheric figures – all in billions of dollars – emerging from President John Atta Mills’s grand tour of Asia last month suggest the love affair between Accra and Asia’s bi...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | GHANAASIA The cost of Ghana’s Asian Alliance 21st October 2010 In mid-October, a large, red container ship marked STX Pan Ocean berthed in Tema port and started offloading its cargo of tipper trucks, excavators, bulldozers, forklift trucks and...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 11 | GHANAOIL AND GASASIA Lining up for Jubilee 22nd September 2010 Asia's big oil companies, backed by their governments, are outbidding their Western rivals President John Evans Atta Mills, his government and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation are entertaining offers for cooperation and a stake in the Jubilee oil field from all...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 10 | GHANASOUTH KOREA Scepticism grows over STX houses 17th August 2010 A feistier opposition in Parliament demands more scrutiny on Seoul's multibillion-dollar housing deal Members of Ghana's opposition are demanding more due diligence on the government's US$1.5 billion housing deal.
Vol 3 (AAC) No 7 | GHANASOUTH KOREA Building on oil money 20th May 2010 The US$10 billion STX housing deal gets its first hearing in Parliament just as the government prepares to borrow $1.5 bn. in future oil revenues The Ghanaian government is proposing to put up US$1.5 billion of its future oil revenues to finance the first phase of a controversial housing project with the South Korean const...
