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...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 5 | GHANASINGAPORE Kofi Annan 15th March 2010 former United Nations Secretary General and Professor, National University of Singapore Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is taking African advocacy directly to Asia, as he takes up his appointment as Li Ka-shing Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School o...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | GHANASOUTH KOREA Mortgages and minerals 15th December 2009 A Korean construction company has sealed a huge contract to build houses with Ghana's government in a new twist on resource trades Accra is leading the way forward on housing development, bringing in South Korean company STX Group to build 200,000 housing units over the next five years at a cost of US$10 bil...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | GHANACHINA China's positioning in the Kosmos 15th December 2009 Although Chinese companies have not yet bid for Kosmos's 30% stake in Ghana's Jubilee field, the China Development Bank has bought Beijing's companies a great deal of capital. Th...
