Vol 49 No 19 | GHANA A rough beginning 19th September 2008 The election campaign is under way and the battle is on for votes in the north In northern Ghana, the campaign got off to a violent start when Mahamudu Bawumia, vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the elections on 7 December, arrived in...
Vol 49 No 19 | GHANA Running mates 19th September 2008 The two main parties’ vice-presidential candidates are both under fifty years old and from northern Ghana. Otherwise they are very different. The National Democratic Congress’s Jo...
Vol 49 No 18 | GHANA Voting violence 5th September 2008 Concern about the conduct of December’s elections is growing in the wake of violent clashes during the primary elections, electoral registration and political rallies.
Vol 49 No 17 | GHANA Right number, right time 22nd August 2008 Just as the government runs out of money before the elections, along comes an offer that is hard to refuse It is a rule of politics that any substantial sale of state assets agreed less than six months before national elections needs close scrutiny. The government's decision to sell a ...
Vol 49 No 17 | GHANA The high price of political phones 22nd August 2008 Political controversy has dogged Ghana Telecom since the telecom sector was deregulated in the mid-1990s under the National Democratic Congress government. Its performance under th...
Vol 49 No 16 | GHANA Presidents and lawyers 1st August 2008 The tortuous prosecution of a former state oil company boss raises questions about the independence of the judiciary Even his opponents concede that Tsatsu Tsikata is a gifted lawyer, whose ties with ex-President Jerry John Rawlings have kept him at the centre of Ghana's bitter political battles....
Vol 49 No 14 | GHANA Industrial revolution 4th July 2008 Ghana seeks partners following its 19 June purchase of Alcoa's 10% stake in the 200,000 tonne/year Volta Aluminum Company (Valco) smelter, mothballed since March 2007. The statal V...
Vol 49 No 12 | GHANA Paying the price 6th June 2008 Economic troubles damage the governing party’s electoral chances in one of Africa’s most stable democracies President John Agyekum Kufuor’s government faces new problems, both political and economic, as it prepares for national elections in December, when the President will step down. Ri...
Vol 49 No 12 | GHANA A last chance reshuffle 6th June 2008 Three days after announcing his economic package, President John Kufuor completed his much-delayed reshuffle. Kwamena Bartels was the main casualty, after less than a year as Inter...
Vol 49 No 10 | GHANA The departed return 9th May 2008 Familiar faces are lining up again as the parties get ready for election time With elections ahead on 7 December - and the prospect of prolonged powerlessness for the losers - prodigal sons and daughters are rushing to rejoin Ghana's two main political parti...