Ghana

Ghana

Population: 24.9 mn.
GDP: 40.1 bn.
Debt: 8.4 bn.
Overview:

Newly elected President John Dramani Mahama will move swiftly to appoint a new cabinet and speed up oil, gas and electric power plans. Hearings by the Supreme Court of the opposition's challenge to Mahama's election will rumble on but are unlikely to result in fresh elections. The governing National Democratic Congress will adopt a more conciliatory style under Mahama. Relations with Côte d'Ivoire should improve. 

 

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  • Vol 44 No 22
  •  7th November 2003

Politics get crude

Money, oil and scandals are the key to pre-election politics

  • Vol 44 No 22
  •  7th November 2003

Gaius says goodbye

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

Diplomacy central

President Kufuor's government is reaping new benefits from its regional security role

  • Vol 44 No 10
  •  16th May 2003

Cotton tales

The previous government's financial misdeeds are a boon to President John Kufuor

  • Vol 44 No 10
  •  16th May 2003

Musical chairs

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

No cheques

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

Yes, Professor!

Two academics go head to head for the opposition leadership

  • Vol 43 No 17
  •  30th August 2002

Boom boom

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

Too good

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

I'm Sam, fly me

Many African airlines have boomed since Air Afrique collapsed, but not Ghana Airways

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