Accra plans to use Chinese loans to integrate the Northern Region into the booming southern economy
More than halfway through President John Atta Mills’s ‘Action Year’ and almost a year since the government first announced that Ghana’s Eastern Corridor was to be rehabilitated, a late July pledge from the China State Construction Engineering Corporation suggests that the development is closer to kick-off. Chinese-backed rail (AAC Vol 4 No 9) and road projects are slowly transforming Ghana’s transport infrastructure and will provide its northern neighbours with easier access to the seaboard....
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