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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 41 No 17
  •  1st September 2000

Platonically yours

The plot reads like a cross between West African market literature and an American soap opera. Yet the 'love story' - or mere 'platonic relationship' - between presidential daughter Zanetor Rawlings and local business scion Selassie O'Sullivan-Djentuh now...

  • Vol 41 No 10
  •  12th May 2000

As you were

The suspense is over. President Jerry Rawlings told a special convention of his National Democratic Congress (NDC) on 29 April: 'When - I am not saying if - when I step down, let me assure you that I am not going anywhere. Through some of our good friends...

  • Vol 41 No 6
  •  17th March 2000

Turning off the taps

Relations between President Jerry Rawlings' government and the World Bank are at their lowest ebb following the Bank's decision to cancel a US$100 million water project loan because of corruption concerns.

  • Vol 40 No 24
  •  3rd December 1999

Tarnished gold

Confusion in the markets, muddle at the top and elections ahead

  • Vol 40 No 21
  •  22nd October 1999

Saudi white knight

A three-headed battle for control of Ghana's flagship Ashanti Goldfields Corporation began after its board declared on 28 September that it couldn't meet potential liabilities of US$450 million on its hedge book. Using financing derivatives, Ashanti had e...

  • Vol 40 No 14
  •  9th July 1999

Privatising politics

Britain's Department of International Development is at the centre of a political row after cancelling a contract with consultants linked to the opposition Reform Movement. The consultants, United News Service, say that DFID cancelled the contract on orde...

  • Vol 40 No 11
  •  28th May 1999

Reforming the reformers

Schisms are growing in the ruling NDC - much to the delight of the opposition

  • Vol 40 No 1
  •  8th January 1999

Medical advice

Suffering from one of his recurrent bouts of malaria and against medical advice, President Jerry John Rawlings insisted on personally addressing, inter alia, the armed forces, the security services and foreign diplomats on the 17th anniversary of the 31st...

  • Vol 39 No 23
  •  20th November 1998

Who comes next?

The parties are fighting internally - before fighting each other

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