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The cost of Ghana’s Asian Alliance

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 four-wheel drive Hyundai jeeps. It was a tangible sign that the first part of the deal secured by South Korea’s STX Engineering to build 200,000 houses in Ghana for US$10 billion was going ahead (AAC Vol 3 No 10)....

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