Before the gold rush, few cars disturbed the dirt road cutting through the lush hills to this village in central Ghana. Then, two years ago, 10 Chinese men arrived with a Ghanaian business partner who said he had a mining licence.
Soon, bulldozers were turning vast patches of forest dotted with oil palms and cocoa trees into fields of mud.
By October last year, there were about 100 Chinese men and women living in makeshift camps around Mpatasie, according to the village chief Nana Agya Owusu. Some carried guns to protect their claims. Locals, who had hoped to benefit from the gold production but had seen few benefits, were becoming angry. So were the Ghanaian authorities, who had recently deported dozens of illegal Chinese miners.
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