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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

Date of Birth: 29 March 1944
Place of Birth: Swalaba, Ghana


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The Opposition hides its teeth

On 31 March despite stiff opposition from trade unions Parliament passed three tax bills presented by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government as part of its efforts to increase domestic revenue in order to secure the International Monetary Fund's Board Approval for a US$3 billion bailout...


A commission under fire

Of the three commissioners who were sworn in by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 20 March the appointment of Peter Appiahene an assistant professor at the at the University of Energy and Natural Resources who was a long-time activist with the NPP's student wing has prompted most objections...


Khaki vigilantes

President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo's failure to address the issue during his state of the nation address in Parliament on 8 March prompted Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa an opposition lawmaker for the National Democratic Congress to demand an inquiry committee 'to probe the killing and the high-handedness meted out to the residents'...


West Africa’s juntas look east

Populist threatElected civilian presidents such as Ouattara Ghana's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Senegal's Macky Sall see the military regimes and their nationalistic rhetoric as a threat to the region's established governing class and its longstanding security and geopolitical alignment with Europe and the United States...

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The succession race starts

In 2007 Kyerematen resigned from the same cabinet position under President John Kufuor for similar reasons but was defeated by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo the current President...


Financial meltdown weakens NPP

Lacking alternatives to the government's economic strategy the NDC calculates that blaming President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's team for the financial woes should suffice...


Ructions over debt deal hold up IMF bailout

Rebels within the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have tried to force out Ofori-Atta but were talked down by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...

Ofori-Atta a long-time financier of the governing New Patriotic Party and a cousin of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo championed full-throated market economics and deregulation dropping what he called nuisance taxes and cutting the rate of value added tax when he took over the treasury in 2017...


Finance in question

Then the buck is passed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who could ignore it or perhaps agree a date for Ofori-Atta's exit after he presents the budget this month and concludes negotiations with the IMF...


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