- Vol 53 No 17
- 24th August 2012
After the state funeral of President John Evans Atta Mills on
10 August, it took just three days for Ghana’s vituperative party
politics to resume. There are presidential and parliamentary elections
to fight on 7 December and the opposition New Patriot...
- Vol 53 No 17
- 24th August 2012
The long shadow of oil and gas revenues falls across what is set to be Ghana’s most expensive election campaign in history. International oil companies are under particular scrutiny for signs of partisanship towards one of the two main parties. Oil in Gha...
- Vol 53 No 16
- 3rd August 2012
A wave of national sympathy for the late President Mills is forcing politicians to reassess their election strategies
- Vol 53 No 16
- 3rd August 2012
With Accra shrouded in funereal red and black cloth and world leaders sending their condolences, Ghana's old political guard has been busy.
- Vol 53 No 11
- 25th May 2012
The National Democratic Congress government is reeling from a fusillade of abuse by the party’s founder, ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, who describes the people around President John Atta Mills as ‘traitors’.
- Vol 53 No 5
- 2nd March 2012
Calling for African Union membership to be limited strictly to democratic states, Ghanaian presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said in London on 29 February that the AU had proved impotent in the face of last year’s conflicts in Côte d’Ivoi...
- Vol 53 No 4
- 17th February 2012
Ministers have lost their jobs, the President’s anti-corruption halo is tarnished and the scandals are running out of control
- Vol 53 No 4
- 17th February 2012
The Woyome scandal has so far claimed two cabinet ministers. The Education Minister and former Attorney General, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, resigned on 23 January, after her successor as AG, Martin A. B. K. Amidu, was fired on 19 January for ‘misconduct’. His d...
- Vol 53 No 3
- 3rd February 2012
A scandal is growing over the government’s decision in 2010 to pay 58 million cedis (US$34.45 mn.) in compensation on a ‘financial engineering’ contract to Alfred Agbesi Woyome. The controversy is dragging more and more officials into its vortex. What...
- Vol 53 No 2
- 20th January 2012
Foreign praise-singers try to justify aid but skate over the difficult choices facing President Mills before this year’s elections