{"id":233509,"date":"2026-05-17T04:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-reject-renewal-of-tarkwa-mine-lease-iea-urges-govt\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:41:55","slug":"ghana-reject-renewal-of-tarkwa-mine-lease-iea-urges-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-reject-renewal-of-tarkwa-mine-lease-iea-urges-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Reject Renewal of Tarkwa Mine Lease &#8211; IEA Urges Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an economic and governance policy think tank, has called on the government not to renew the mining lease of Gold Fields&#8217; Tarkwa mine when it expires in April 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Instead, the institute argued that Ghana should take advantage of the expiration to channel mining revenues into national development and the transformation of mining communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">At a press conference in Accra yesterday, former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo expressed concern about the poor state&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150763.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), an economic and governance policy think tank, has called on the government not to renew the mining lease of Gold Fields&#8217; Tarkwa mine when it expires in April 2027. Instead, the institute argued that Ghana should take advantage of the expiration to channel mining revenues into national development and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,4357,20227,11161,257,6654,9097,254,12817,6810],"class_list":["post-233509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-govt","tag-iea","tag-lease","tag-news","tag-reject","tag-renewal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tarkwa","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}