Ghana Airways, the bankrupt state airline, is to get a helping hand from an unlikely and controversial source two Mormon-owned companies from Salt Lake City in the United States. One, Sentry Financial International, is already known to Africa Confid...
Politicians blame bureaucrats, bureaucrats blame politicians. That's democracy
In 1982, a few months after Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings successfully staged a coup, three High Court judges and an army officer were brutally murdered and their bodies incompetently burned. Rawlings went on to rule Ghana until the year 2000. For...
A heady whiff of vengeance pervades the parties' campaigns against corruption
It's election year and President John Kufuor wants to make the struggling economy look good. He promised his party's wealthy patrons a golden age for business; so far, mostly foreigners have benefited. Ghana's world-class company Ashanti Goldfields has b...
Money, oil and scandals are the key to pre-election politics
The sacking of Jackson Gaius Obaseki, Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, on 3 November, is linked to the growing problems with well connected firm Sahara Energy Resources in Ghana and at home in Nigeria. President Olusegun O...
President Kufuor's government is reaping new benefits from
its regional security role
The previous government's financial misdeeds are a boon to President John Kufuor
President John Agyekum Kufuor's late March cabinet changes brought in some younger ministers and deputy ministers, but were dismissed by the opposition National Democratic Congress as 'more recycle than reshuffle'. The only minister dropped was Edward Os...
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