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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 45 No 25
  •  17th December 2004

Now for the hard work

Having won clean elections, Kufuor's government has serious work to do

  • Vol 45 No 24
  •  3rd December 2004

Talk of the towns

The ruling NPP is in the lead but tight budgets hurt it in the towns

  • Vol 45 No 21
  •  22nd October 2004

Smelling an elephant

The election was bad tempered even before it began and a car crash made it worse

  • Vol 45 No 16
  •  6th August 2004

Caution, democrats at work

Everyone is quarrelling healthily ahead of the elections and the result is still open

  • Vol 45 No 14
  •  9th July 2004

HIPC Junction

Depending on donors is no easy task for a government which wants to get re-elected

  • Vol 45 No 14
  •  9th July 2004

Chinese puzzle

Breaking a deafening government silence since a controversial Chinese loan agreement was rushed through parliament at the end of its last sitting in April, the embattled Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, insists he will pursue 'to i...

  • Vol 45 No 14
  •  9th July 2004

419, and counting

Advanced Fee Frauds or '419s', have become as common in Ghana as in Nigeria, where they were invented. Ghanaian banks have published warnings in the press that their signatures or letterheads have been forged; e-mail has expanded the potential for dupes. ...

  • Vol 45 No 12
  •  11th June 2004

Fly me, I'm Moroni

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...

  • Vol 45 No 8
  •  16th April 2004

Registration rumpus

Politicians blame bureaucrats, bureaucrats blame politicians. That's democracy

  • Vol 45 No 4
  •  20th February 2004

Judging Jerry

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...

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