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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 49 No 3
  •  1st February 2008

Cocaine cops

An hysterical attack by the Inspector General of Police, Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, on the sacked National Security Minister, Francis Poku, has backfired, prompting a new round of public support for Poku. On Accra’s Peace FM Radio, IGP Acheampong accuse...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 2008

Show time for the spooks

The sacking for Security Minister Francis Poku exposes a damaging battle for turf between the security agencies

  • Vol 48 No 25
  •  14th December 2007

Race to the top

Cash, influence and a few policy debates enliven the selection of next year's presidential contenders

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

Who spends, wins

Free-spending candidates and their business backers dominate the governing New Patriotic Party's choice of a new leader

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

The cedi and pesewa vote

For many Ghanaians, the economics of the elections are more important than the politics. Most of the responsibility for these matters falls on the shoulders of the effervescent Finance Minister, Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, and his more discreet colleague and form...

  • Vol 48 No 21
  •  19th October 2007

Bond bonanza

Fresh from celebrating their successful floating of a US$750 million Eurobond last month, President John Kufuor and Finance Minister Kwadwo Baah Wiredu face growing scrutiny over the government's spending plans ahead of the December 2008 elections.

  • Vol 48 No 15
  •  20th July 2007

Everyone's in the race

Would-be presidential candidates crop up everywhere, with pots of money and hopes of oil

  • Vol 48 No 15
  •  20th July 2007

Ministerial and musical chairs

Promotions, demotions and sideways shuffles

  • Vol 48 No 11
  •  25th May 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
  •  16th March 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

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