Vol 6 (AAC) No 1 | GHANACHINA Political storm over Chinese gas contracts 30th October 2012 Opposition parties and anti-corruption activists call for investigations into and a renegotiation of Beijing’s energy and telecoms deals with Accra Leading opposition presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo and his New Patriotic Party are stepping up criticism about the financing of Chinese projects in the energy a...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 1 | GHANACHINA Call me, maybe 30th October 2012 The influence of Chinese money on Ghana’s heated politics has crossed a legal red line, say activists who accuse telecoms company Huawei of bribing officials of the ruling National...
Vol 53 No 25 | GHANA The Mahama factor 14th December 2012 The NDC candidate turned around the campaign after his predecessor’s death; now he has to deliver on his promise of sweeping improvements to governance It was Ghana’s longest, costliest and most acrimonious election campaign. It ended with a grand party for the National Democratic Congress on 9 December and attempts by the opposit...
Vol 53 No 25 | GHANA The democracy question 14th December 2012 With a population nudging 25 million and a fast-growing lower-middle-income economy with gold, oil and gas production, Ghana can lay claim to running Africa’s most important multi...
Vol 53 No 23 | GHANA Elections 2012: Mahama ahead by a hair 16th November 2012 Oil, gas, gold, education and health dominate a landmark election in which the main contenders may again be fewer than just 50,000 votes apart It has been Ghana’s longest-ever campaign and electors are being offered a real choice of policies and people but still the two major parties are running neck-and-neck ahead of pre...
Vol 53 No 23 | GHANA Contributions gratefully received 16th November 2012 Foreign campaign contributions are illegal in Ghana but are not properly tracked because the main anti-corruption agency, the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice,...
Vol 53 No 18 | GHANA The Mahama swing 7th September 2012 President John Dramani Mahama set out an ambitious election manifesto on 4 September and enjoyed a boost from the opinion polls, just four days after the National Democratic Congre...
Vol 53 No 17 | GHANA After a unifying funeral, a divisive election 24th August 2012 After the state funeral of President John Evans Atta Mills on 10 August, it took just three days for Ghana’s vituperative party politics to resume. There are presidential and par...
Vol 53 No 17 | GHANA The first oil election 24th August 2012 The long shadow of oil and gas revenues falls across what is set to be Ghana’s most expensive election campaign in history. International oil companies are under particular scrutin...
Vol 53 No 16 | GHANA Politicking after the mourning 3rd August 2012 A wave of national sympathy for the late President Mills is forcing politicians to reassess their election strategies For Ghanaians, funerals assume a special role in the social order. Multiply that a hundredfold for the funeral of a sitting head of state. While their compatriots were still stunne...