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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 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

All for the sake of the party

A battle royal for the presidential nomination of the National Democratic Congress will shape the country’s politics for the coming year and beyond

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Oil joy, debt worry

Former Finance Minister and chief statistician Joe Abbey has added his voice to those warning the Accra government to take action over spiralling debt liabilities ahead of the country’s first oil exports due by the end of this year. The government’s plan ...

  • Vol 51 No 17
  •  27th August 2010

The politics of no

Party feuding, jarring personalities and tax deals – not rivalry with China – have kept ExxonMobil out of Ghana’s oil fields

  • Vol 51 No 17
  •  27th August 2010

A government team in the oil battle

President John Evans Atta Mills has remained above the fray throughout the dispute between the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and Kosmos Energy but has set up two committees to advise him on policy on the contentious sale. The first was set u...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Storm in an oil barrel

A commercial dispute between the government and a US oil company has become diplomatically damaging – so President Mills is looking for a way out

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

The 3.8 billion dollar question

Aside from the party political rivalries, geopolitics and diplomatic jousting involved in the Kosmos Energy debacle in Ghana, there is a central concern: that the government stands to earn at least US$3.8 billion more in tax under the terms negotiated wit...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

Oil spill

No end is in sight to the row between the government and the United States' Kosmos Energy over Kosmos's efforts to sell its equity stake in Ghana's Jubilee oil field to ExxonMobil (AC Vol 51 No 2). The government has no reason to change its opposition to ...

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

Oil and optimism

The President’s grand development plans contrast sharply with partisan manoeuvres in Parliament and beyond

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

Burning passions

A bizarre series of fires at government buildings has led to a whispering campaign reminiscent of the spate of brutal murders before the 2000 election campaign, which Flight Lieutenant (Retired) Jerry Rawlings had claimed were organised to damage the the...

  • Vol 51 No 1
  •  8th January 2010

Opening time at Osu Castle

Mills promises more affable politics and a welcome mat for oil companies but cannot ignore market realities or the harsh conditions in the countryside

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