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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 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Lining up the Mills team

The economy is the new President's first concern but politics drives many of his appointments

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Is Rawlings the back-seat driver?

The doings and sayings of former President Jerry John Rawlings always fascinate the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) as well as journalists. Rawlings likes nothing better than to rattle their collective cages using his 'boom' speeches - recently by de...

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

Back to the battleground

After a celebrated election, President John Atta Mills takes on a fractious parliament

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

Economic facts and fantasies

Loyalists of the outgoing National Patriotic Party (NPP) government reacted angrily to World Bank Country Director Ishac Diwan's dire warnings about Ghana's economy. Estimating the government's budget deficit at 14% of gross domestic product and the trade...

  • Vol 50 No 1
  •  9th January 2009

Two and a half cheers for democracy

Ghanaians show the rest of Africa how it can be done

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

The winner has to wait

After one of the closest presidential elections ever, the front-runners are preparing for a run-off vote in less than three weeks’ time

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

More pressure on the cedi

Whoever wins the second round of the presidential election – John Atta Mills or Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – will have to make tough economic decisions as soon as they take power. Pressured this year by falling demand for its main export of cocoa and by...

  • Vol 49 No 19
  •  19th September 2008

A rough beginning

The election campaign is under way and the battle is on for votes in the north

  • Vol 49 No 19
  •  19th September 2008

Running mates

The two main parties’ vice-presidential candidates are both under fifty years old and from northern Ghana. Otherwise they are very different. The National Democratic Congress’s John Dramani Mahama, who will be 50 on 29 November, is serving his third term...

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

Voting violence

Concern about the conduct of December’s elections is growing in the wake of violent clashes during the primary elections, electoral registration and political rallies.

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