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The future is bright for Ghana’s mining sector, Edward Nana Yaw Koranteng, CEO of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), has said at the recently concluded MIIF Stakeholder Conference at the Marriott Bonvoy Hotel in Accra.

Overall, the SB ATB trade attractiveness rankings reveal a dynamic shift in trade standings among the 10 African nations it covers, with Tanzania (moving from 8th to 4th ranking), Mozambique (4 to 3), Nigeria (6 to 5) and Zambia (9 to 8) recording improvements in their positions, while declines were recorded for Ghana (3 to 7), Uganda (7 to 9) and Kenya (5 to 6). Meanwhile South Africa, Namibia and Angola retained their rankings, at positions 1, 2 and 10, respectively.

The coalition argues that ECG’s recent engagement of Fidelity Bank as the “single account” custodian, alongside its large-scale foreign exchange transactions with the bank involving millions of dollars, should have been subjected to public procurement procedures.