- Vol 44 No 22
- 7th November 2003
Money, oil and scandals are the key to pre-election politics
- Vol 44 No 22
- 7th November 2003
The sacking of Jackson Gaius Obaseki, Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, on 3 November, is linked to the growing problems with well connected firm Sahara Energy Resources in Ghana and at home in Nigeria. President Olusegun O...
- Vol 44 No 14
- 11th July 2003
President Kufuor's government is reaping new benefits from
its regional security role
- Vol 44 No 10
- 16th May 2003
The previous government's financial misdeeds are a boon to President John Kufuor
- Vol 44 No 10
- 16th May 2003
President John Agyekum Kufuor's late March cabinet changes brought in some younger ministers and deputy ministers, but were dismissed by the opposition National Democratic Congress as 'more recycle than reshuffle'. The only minister dropped was Edward Os...
- Vol 43 No 24
- 6th December 2002
President John Kufuor's last-minute rejection of the US$1 billion loan from the shadowy International Finance Consortium (not to be confused with the World Bank's International Finance Corporation) raises doubts about his economic management
- Vol 43 No 22
- 8th November 2002
Two academics go head to head for the opposition leadership
- Vol 43 No 17
- 30th August 2002
It was a 'boom' speech, so called because it suggests the guns will boom again and return him to power. Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings has form: he led two coups d'état in 1979 (one successful) and another on 31 December 1981 which gave him power f...
- Vol 43 No 16
- 9th August 2002
The government has raised eyebrows by contracting a $1 billion, low-interest loan from a group calling itself the International Finance Consortium (not to be confused with the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector lending arm of the World ...
- Vol 43 No 15
- 26th July 2002
Many African airlines have boomed since Air Afrique collapsed, but not Ghana Airways