The incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo of the NPP is running against his predecessor John Dramani Mahama of the NDC...
On 2 November President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the plan to float the Agyapa royalty company in London and Jersey would be put on hold until after the 7 December elections pending a restructuring of the project and more scrutiny by parliament...
Vol 61 No 16 |
- MALI
- ECOWAS
On 23 July a procession of regional heads of state gathered in Bamako: President Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria) Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger) Nana Akufo-Addo (Ghana) Alassane Ouattara (Côte d'Ivoire) and Macky Sall (Senegal)...
President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo announced Africa's first lockdown in March with a flourish: 'we know how to bring the economy back to life …what we do not know is how to bring people back to life'...
Back in December just a week after Ouattara had announced the CFA reform the office of Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo had issued a warmly positive statement: 'We in Ghana are determined to do whatever we can to enable us [to] join the Member States of UEMOA soon in the use of the eco as we believe it will help remove trade and monetary barriers reduce transaction costs boost economic activity and raise the living standards of our people...
Eleven months ahead of national elections the best guess is that President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo will win more narrowly than he did in 2016 and his New Patriotic Party's (NPP) parliamentary majority will be cut...
Under the 'Accra process' launched by President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana coastal states have already stepped up their coordination of security measures to counter the risk that jihadist groups will penetrate further south...
At the same time President Nana Akufo-Addo and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has to show that his government is the best custodian of the economy and can fund his ambitious education and health programmes (see Box The politics of low-tax and high-spend)...
Despite lengthy mediation by Presidents Nana Akufo Addo of Ghana and Alpha Condé of Guinea under the aegis of the Economic Community of West African States the government refused to budge on the constitutional amendments and the response of the opposition was to boycott the 2018 parliamentary elections...
This follows a meeting between President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo and the Chief Executive Officer of the MCC Sean Cairncross on the margins of the UN General Assembly on 23 September at which government officials proposed that the concession held by PDS would be ended and replaced with a new arrangement...
The leader, Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, owns the Citadel hospital in Accra and is a vehement critic, on social media and other platforms, of the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo but also lambasts the opposition Presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama...
