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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 48 No 4
  •  16th February 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 Demo...

  • Vol 48 No 3
  •  2nd February 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
  •  15th December 2006

Penalty shoot-out

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

  • Vol 47 No 15
  •  21st July 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 drug s...

  • Vol 47 No 9
  •  28th April 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
  •  17th March 2006

Exporting the vote

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

  • Vol 46 No 25
  •  16th December 2005

Money-go-round

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

  • Vol 46 No 19
  •  23rd September 2005

A test for the peers

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

  • Vol 46 No 12
  •  10th June 2005

Hotel Hullaballoo

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

  • Vol 46 No 7
  •  1st April 2005

Nervy neighbours

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

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