French newspaper, Le Monde, has reported that British intelligence agency, GCHQ, had been spying on Ghana’s former president John Agyekum Kufour and his aides.

This was revealed after the paper together with the online publication, The Intercept, sifted through the revelations of Edward Snowden, a former intelligence officer of the United States’ National Intelligence Agency.

According to the revelations, the British wiretapped (listened) Mr Kufour and his colleagues’ phones.


The revelations were overshadowed by media coverage of Ghana’s general elections which saw Mr Kufour’s Foreign Minister emerging as the winner with over 53 percent of the votes.

Ghana’s presidency was not the only victim of British espionage according to Le Monde, as many other allies and former leaders of former colonies were also surveillance.

Other African leaders that were also spied on included Nigeria’s former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua; Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki, Sierra Leone’s current president Ernest Koroma and Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than a dozen African presidents and diplomats were also revealed to have been spied on.

It has also been revealed that the GCHQ also spied on Israeli leaders. Edward Snowden is currently in Russia avoiding US authorities who want to put him on trial for espionage.

source:pulse.com.gh