Ghana

President John Agyekum Kufuor's late March cabinet changes brought in some younger ministers and deputy ministers, but were dismissed by the opposition National Democratic Congress...

President John Kufuor's last-minute rejection of the US$1 billion loan from the shadowy International Finance Consortium (not to be confused with the World Bank's International Fin...

Two Fanti law professors from Central Region, former Vice-President John Evans Atta Mills and former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey, are battling for nomination as the presidentia...

It was a 'boom' speech, so called because it suggests the guns will boom again and return him to power. Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings has form: he led two coups d'état in 1...

The government has raised eyebrows by contracting a $1 billion, low-interest loan from a group calling itself the International Finance Consortium (not to be confused with the Inte...

Sam Jonah resigned as Chairman of Ghana Airways on 2 July after the cabinet failed to approve his preferred rescue plan for the airline and the removal of the Chairman of the Manag...

An interesting footnote to tales of corruption during the reign of President Jerry Rawlings is offered by the case of Juliet Cotton, convicted on 17 June by a federal jury in Atlan...

The Ya-Na, overlord of the northern people of Dagbon, is said to have been abducted from his palace by men in military fatigues on 26 March and murdered (AC Vol 43 No 7). This chie...

Suddenly Ghana is in political crisis. For the last decade, the country's development of a constitutional democracy and political stability amid the turbulence of West Africa was a...

On winning the election a year ago, President John Kufuor promised Ghana a 'golden age of business.' His commitment to market economics is being sorely tested. Jerry John Rawlings,...