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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 46 No 19
  • 23/09/2005

A test for the peers

African states have their chance to judge th Kufuor government's record

  • Vol 46 No 12
  • 10/06/2005

Hotel Hullaballoo

A lady, a hotel, a president and an old-fashioned political scandal

  • Vol 46 No 7
  • 01/04/2005

Nervy neighbours

Along its frontiers, Ghana keeps a nervous eye on turbulent Côte d'Ivoire and Togo

  • Vol 45 No 25
  • 17/12/2004

Now for the hard work

Having won clean elections, Kufuor's government has serious work to do

  • Vol 45 No 24
  • 03/12/2004

Talk of the towns

The ruling NPP is in the lead but tight budgets hurt it in the towns

  • Vol 45 No 21
  • 22/10/2004

Smelling an elephant

The election was bad tempered even before it began and a car crash made it worse

  • Vol 45 No 16
  • 06/08/2004

Caution, democrats at work

Everyone is quarrelling healthily ahead of the elections and the result is still open

  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

HIPC Junction

Depending on donors is no easy task for a government which wants to get re-elected

  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

Chinese puzzle

Breaking a deafening government silence since a controversial Chinese loan agreement was rushed through parliament at the end of its last sitting in April, the embattled Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, insists he will pursue 'to i...

  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

419, and counting

Advanced Fee Frauds or '419s', have become as common in Ghana as in Nigeria, where they were invented. Ghanaian banks have published warnings in the press that their signatures or letterheads have been forged; e-mail has expanded the potential for dupes. ...

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