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Ghana
Population: 23.7 mn.
GDP: 32.3 bn.
Debt: 4.2 bn.
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Cost of living issues and oil revenue management will dominate December's general election pitting President John Atta Mills of the NDC against the NPP's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The opposition is favoured to win narrowly.

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  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

The founder's fury

The National Democratic Congress government is reeling from a fusillade of abuse by the party’s founder, ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, who describes the people around President John Atta Mills as ‘traitors’.

  • Vol 53 No 5
  •  2nd March 2012

Diplomatic challenge

Calling for African Union membership to be limited strictly to democratic states, Ghanaian presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said in London on 29 February that the AU had proved impotent in the face of last year’s conflicts in Côte d’Ivoi...

  • Vol 53 No 4
  •  17th February 2012

Who paid whom for what?

Ministers have lost their jobs, the President’s anti-corruption halo is tarnished and the scandals are running out of control

  • Vol 53 No 4
  •  17th February 2012

The Woyome scandal and its casualties

The Woyome scandal has so far claimed two cabinet ministers. The Education Minister and former Attorney General, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, resigned on 23 January, after her successor as AG, Martin A. B. K. Amidu, was fired on 19 January for ‘misconduct’. His d...

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

It's Woyome time

A scandal is growing over the government’s decision in 2010 to pay 58 million cedis (US$34.45 mn.) in compensation on a ‘financial engineering’ contract to Alfred Agbesi Woyome. The controversy is dragging more and more officials into its vortex. What...

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

The Accra boosters

Foreign praise-singers try to justify aid but skate over the difficult choices facing President Mills before this year’s elections

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Great expectations

The 2012 elections may delay, but will not stop, the resource-driven progress towards prosperity

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Getting the vote right

The straight-talking director of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Kwadwo Afari-Djan, and his team have organised five multiparty elections since 1992, each one more credible than the last. The 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections could be the toughe...

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

A pipeline of votes

Delays and disputes over a gas-fired industrial project could damage President John Atta Mills ahead of next year’s elections

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

The IMF and the Chinese loan puzzle

The view of Ghana as an economic success, one held by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, comes with a price tag. Last year, the first recalculation of national income for 20 years increased the reported gross domestic product by US$500 to...

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