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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 41 No 23
  • 24/11/2000

My country right and left

The seven presidential candidates and parties contesting the 7 December elections offer an odd mix of professed ideologies and political histories. For 50 years, Ghanaian political allegiance has been built around two nationalist heroes: the socialist and...

  • Vol 41 No 17
  • 01/09/2000

Platonically yours

The plot reads like a cross between West African market literature and an American soap opera. Yet the 'love story' - or mere 'platonic relationship' - between presidential daughter Zanetor Rawlings and local business scion Selassie O'Sullivan-Djentuh now...

  • Vol 41 No 10
  • 12/05/2000

As you were

The suspense is over. President Jerry Rawlings told a special convention of his National Democratic Congress (NDC) on 29 April: 'When - I am not saying if - when I step down, let me assure you that I am not going anywhere. Through some of our good friends...

  • Vol 41 No 6
  • 17/03/2000

Turning off the taps

Relations between President Jerry Rawlings' government and the World Bank are at their lowest ebb following the Bank's decision to cancel a US$100 million water project loan because of corruption concerns.

  • Vol 40 No 24
  • 03/12/1999

Tarnished gold

Confusion in the markets, muddle at the top and elections ahead

  • Vol 40 No 21
  • 22/10/1999

Saudi white knight

A three-headed battle for control of Ghana's flagship Ashanti Goldfields Corporation began after its board declared on 28 September that it couldn't meet potential liabilities of US$450 million on its hedge book. Using financing derivatives, Ashanti ha...

  • Vol 40 No 14
  • 09/07/1999

Privatising politics

Britain's Department of International Development is at the centre of a political row after cancelling a contract with consultants linked to the opposition Reform Movement. The consultants, United News Service, say that DFID cancelled the contract on o...

  • Vol 40 No 11
  • 28/05/1999

Reforming the reformers

Schisms are growing in the ruling NDC - much to the delight of the opposition

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