Under growing pressure from within and outside his New Patriotic Party (NPP) President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is trying to mollify critics of the government's economic strategy by assuring them it is about to agree a US$3 billion bailout with the International Monetary Fund...
The markets have turned against President Nana Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) government pushing up bond yields and eroding the value of the cedi against the dollar by 45% this year...
The government's costly bailout of the financial sector during President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's first term was accompanied by banking licence revocations and the consolidation of several banks...
The Coalition for Democratic Accountability and Inclusive Governance has been pressuring the government for action on theft and leakage from the public purse of up to $3bn a year ever since it came to the defence of Asiedu's predecessor as AG Daniel Domelevo who was constructively sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in March last year...
This year at the UN the demand was reiterated by several presidents such as Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Gabon's Ali Bongo Ondimba Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Kenya's William Ruto and Congo-Kinshasa's Félix Tshisekedi...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo described the project to build a National Cathedral in Accra as ‘an opportunity to redeem a pledge I made to [God] before I became President' but the blueprint is beset by controversy about cost overruns and the links between the President and some Christian groups...
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Most critical for Macron will be to build closer relations with Bissau's President Úmaro Sissoco Embaló who has taken over as chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) from Ghana's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...
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Along with the tough spending cuts to be negotiated President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo faces high political costs...
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8% by June 2022 presents Nana Akufo-Addo's government and the Bank of Ghana with a major headache...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo finally decided to open negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for balance-of-payments support after cabinet had debated the issue for weeks...
A decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government to reclassify a large part of the Achimota Forest reserve in Accra – the only urban forest in the country – has met with fierce opposition from civil society groups and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)...