- Vol 54 No 9
- 26th April 2013
President Mahama says his government has been denied the six-month honeymoon his predecessors enjoyed
- Vol 54 No 9
- 26th April 2013
On 16 April, the Supreme Court began hearings on the petition from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to annul John Mahama’s victory in December’s presidential election. This has quickly become a political soap opera. Journalists eagerly report the ...
- Vol 54 No 5
- 1st March 2013
Neither the governing party nor its opponents seem in a hurry to resolve the complex case in the Supreme Court on last year’s elections
- Vol 54 No 2
- 18th January 2013
The arrest in Tema port of Ivorian militia leader Charles Blé Goudé on 17 January will do much to improve relations between Ghana’s President John Mahama and Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara. Intelligence sources said Blé Goudé, who is wante...
- Vol 54 No 1
- 11th January 2013
International organisations say it is a model of probity and efficiency, but the Electoral Commission must answer detailed claims of vote rigging
- Vol 53 No 25
- 14th December 2012
The NDC candidate turned around the campaign after his predecessor’s death; now he has to deliver on his promise of sweeping improvements to governance
- Vol 53 No 25
- 14th December 2012
With a population nudging 25 million and a fast-growing lower-middle-income economy with gold, oil and gas production, Ghana can lay claim to running Africa’s most important multi-party political system. Its main competitors in that regard are Senegal an...
- Vol 53 No 23
- 16th November 2012
Oil, gas, gold, education and health dominate a landmark election in which the main contenders may again be fewer than just 50,000 votes apart
- Vol 53 No 23
- 16th November 2012
Foreign campaign contributions are illegal in Ghana but are not properly tracked because the main anti-corruption agency, the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice, lacks the capacity. So both the governing National Democratic Congress (ND...
- Vol 53 No 18
- 7th September 2012
President John Dramani Mahama set out an ambitious election manifesto on 4 September and enjoyed a boost from the opinion polls, just four days after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had confirmed him as its candidate at its special conference.