In 2024 for the first time since 1993 the government – under then President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – chose not to raise a syndicated loan on global markets to buy the harvest...
He remains the NPP's best-known figure having served as Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's running mate since the 2008 general elections...
Akonta is at the centre of allegations of politically connected galamsey in protected forest reserves under the previous government led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...
A prime target for NDC militants is the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng appointed by former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo whose handling of corruption charges against officials in the former government is coming under growing scrutiny...
After a financial meltdown and default under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) government the cedi has recovered in 2025: by November it had gained 35% against the United States dollar 28% against the British pound and 21% against the euro...
In Brussels in October Ghana's former president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo called for the EU to support ‘a programme of ‘Debt Relief for Green Investment and Resilience': linking debt cancellation to investments in climate adaptation and sustainable growth...
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During a speech in Brussels earlier in October Ghana's ex-president Nana Akufo-Addo had called for the EU to support ‘a programme of ‘Debt Relief for Green Investment and Resilience' (Dispatches 6/10/25 Akufo-Addo's ‘painful' debt memories boost calls for new relief programme)...
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Former Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo described the debt restructuring that dominated his second term as ‘one of the darkest and most painful episodes' of his presidency as he made a pitch for a new debt relief programme in Brussels last week...
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo rejected a similar petition for the Chief Justice's removal on the eve of Mahama's inauguration in January...
Kulendi – a close associate of both Mahama and his predecessor President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – began his legal career at Akufo-Addo's firm in Accra and is regarded in legal circles as a reform-minded figure...
The global arrest alert for Ofori-Atta and the prosecution of a senior national security official have revived damaging narratives of corruption and economic mismanagement under President Nana Akufo-Addo – deepening the party's post-2024 election crisis...