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Ghana

Population: 22.5 million
GNI: $11800 million
Debt: $5700 million
Overview: December's presidential and legislative elections will dominate the political and economic year. The governing New Patriotic Party will try to engineer a mini-boom before a hard fought contest with the National Democratic Congress.

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  • Vol 49 No 25
  • 12/12/2008

The winner has to wait

After one of the closest presidential elections ever, the front-runners are preparing for a run-off vote in less than three weeks’ time

  • Vol 49 No 25
  • 12/12/2008

More pressure on the cedi

Whoever wins the second round of the presidential election – John Atta Mills or Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – will have to make tough economic decisions as soon as they take power. Pressured this year by falling demand for its main export of cocoa and by...

  • Vol 49 No 19
  • 19/09/2008

A rough beginning

The election campaign is under way and the battle is on for votes in the north

  • Vol 49 No 19
  • 19/09/2008

Running mates

The two main parties’ vice-presidential candidates are both under fifty years old and from northern Ghana. Otherwise they are very different. The National Democratic Congress’s John Dramani Mahama, who will be 50 on 29 November, is serving his third...

  • Vol 49 No 18
  • 05/09/2008

Voting violence

Concern about the conduct of December’s elections is growing in the wake of violent clashes during the primary elections, electoral registration and political rallies.

  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

Right number, right time

Just as the government runs out of money before the elections, along comes an offer that is hard to refuse

  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

The high price of political phones

Political controversy has dogged Ghana Telecom since the telecom sector was deregulated in the mid-1990s under the National Democratic Congress government. Its performance under the management of Telkom Malaysia led to the cancelling of the contract by...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

Presidents and lawyers

The tortuous prosecution of a former state oil company boss raises questions about the independence of the judiciary

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Industrial revolution

Ghana seeks partners following its 19 June purchase of Alcoa's 10% stake in the 200,000 tonne/year Volta Aluminum Company (Valco) smelter, mothballed since March 2007. The statal Volta River Authority cannot guarantee cheap power from the Akosombo hydr...

  • Vol 49 No 12
  • 06/06/2008

Paying the price

Economic troubles damage the governing party’s electoral chances in one of Africa’s most stable democracies

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