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Ghana

Population: 22.5 million
GNI: $11800 million
Debt: $5700 million
Overview: December's presidential and legislative elections will dominate the political and economic year. The governing New Patriotic Party will try to engineer a mini-boom before a hard fought contest with the National Democratic Congress.

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  • Vol 48 No 15
  • 20/07/2007

MINISTERIAL AND MUSICAL CHAIRS

Promotions, demotions and sideways shuffles

  • Vol 48 No 11
  • 25/05/2007

Banished ballots

The debate over exiles having the right to vote combines with power-cuts to bring the opposition out on the streets

  • Vol 48 No 6
  • 16/03/2007

Soft sell at 50

Half a century after Kwame Nkrumah, pan-Africanism and military coups, the Black Star has a chance to reinvent itself

  • Vol 48 No 4
  • 16/02/2007

Anniversary boycott

Too many Ghanaians suspect that their judges administer the law in favour of the New Patriotic Party government. Their mistrust was increased by the gaoling for ten years of Daniel Kwasi Abodakpi, Minister of Trade and Industry in the former National ...

  • Vol 48 No 3
  • 02/02/2007

Ghana's gain

The election of President John Kufuor to the Chairmanship of the African Union was a personal victory for his Foreign Minister and presidential aspirant, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

Penalty shoot-out

The opposition NDC will choose its flagbearer next week and the wrong choice could be fatal

  • Vol 47 No 15
  • 21/07/2006

Snow white

The Ghana Bar Association says it is considering disciplinary action against Capt (retd) Nkrabea Effah-Dartey, a former deputy Interior Minister and ex officio Chairman of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), for declaring his willingness to defend dr...

  • Vol 47 No 9
  • 28/04/2006

Air heads

Widespread scepticism has greeted denials by Chief of Staff and Presidential Affairs Minister Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani that he had no hand in the dismissal of four top executives at Ghana International Airlines (GIA).

  • Vol 47 No 6
  • 17/03/2006

Exporting the vote

Overseas citizens help pay Ghana's bills and want to elect its next government

  • Vol 46 No 25
  • 16/12/2005

Money-go-round

The ruling party, ahead of its national congress, denies corruption by those seeking to lead it

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