Projects

Ghana holds one of the world’s largest and highest-quality bauxite reserves. The Nyinahin deposit in the Ashanti Region is among the most significant — yet it has never been processed in-country. For decades, Ghana’s bauxite has been exported as raw ore, capturing only a fraction of the value that alumina refining would generate. The Nyinahin Bauxite-to-Alumina Refinery project is designed to change that permanently.

REGA Global, in association with Prestige Diamond Industries Limited (PDIL), is developing an integrated project that combines a full-scale alumina refinery at the Shama site in the Western Region with a dedicated ore supply corridor running from the Nyinahin mine to the refinery and onward to Takoradi Port. The refinery will process Ghanaian bauxite into alumina for export to global aluminium smelters — capturing the value-addition premium in-country, creating skilled employment, and generating sustained government revenue from a resource Ghana already owns.

What makes this project distinctive is the integrated design of the ore supply system. Rather than relying on conventional road or rail transport across difficult terrain, the project deploys REGA Global’s own Tubular Transportation System (TTS) — an overland pneumatic pipeline conveyor — as the ore supply corridor. The TTS operates continuously, automatically, and at lower cost than any alternative transport solution across the same terrain, making it the enabling technology that brings the project’s operating economics into a class of their own.

Aviation connectivity is one of the most consequential constraints on West African economic development. Ghana — one of the continent’s most politically stable and commercially open economies — has not had a viable national carrier since Ghana Airways ceased operations in 2004. The absence of a Ghanaian flag carrier limits intra-African connectivity, reduces Ghana’s leverage in bilateral air service negotiations, and means that the economic value of the country’s aviation sector flows primarily to foreign carriers.

REGA Global is engaged with World Aviator Group (WAG), led by Captain Joe Schoofs, in the development of a comprehensive national aviation project for Ghana. The project is structured around two complementary vehicles: an airport infrastructure holding company and an airline operating company — a dual-vehicle approach that separates the long-life infrastructure asset from the more dynamic operating business, enabling optimal financing for each.

A foundational element of the project is the participation of the Asantehene, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, whose land assets — held through the Ashanti Institute — provide a substantial equity foundation for the project under a long-term land concession arrangement. The Asantehene’s involvement gives the project deep roots in Ghanaian tradition, institutional legitimacy, and a uniquely powerful basis for engaging both the Government of Ghana and international capital markets.

The project is designed for listing on the Ghana Stock Exchange, creating a structure that allows Ghana’s diaspora community — one of the most economically active in Africa — to invest directly in their country’s aviation future. The GSE listing also provides the liquidity framework that enables institutional investors, export credit agencies financing aircraft acquisition, and development finance institutions to participate alongside founding sponsors.