Speaking on the 40th day after President John Evans Atta Mills’s death  a significant time in Ghanaian culture  Mahama pledged to boost economic growth  make government more consultative and strengthen anti-corruption institutions...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     While their compatriots were still stunned by the news of the death of President John Evans Atta Mills on 24 July  the elders of the governing National Democratic Congress orchestrated an impressively smooth transition...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     First  they organised a near-seamless transition after President John Evans Atta Mills's death in the afternoon of 24 July...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    The National Democratic Congress government is reeling from a fusillade of abuse by the party’s founder  ex-President Jerry John Rawlings  who describes the people around President John Atta Mills as  ‘traitors’...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Akufo-Addo  who is the New Patriotic Party candidate  in December’s election  diplomatically avoided responding in detail to a  question on the Woyome payments scandal that is plaguing his rival President John Evans Atta Mills  saying he was confident that Ghana’s police and judiciary were capable of managing a credible investigation...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    The deepening row over Alfred Agbesi Woyome’s financing of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a nightmare for President John Atta Mills’s re-election campaign...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     President John Evans Atta Mills duly   obliged but also ordered the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO)  to investigate the Woyome payments...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Yet there are bigger questions about whether President John Evans Atta Mills’s economic modernisation programme  backed by Chinese and Indian finance  is viable...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	        The NDC wants a second four-year term for President John Atta Mills and Vice-President John Dramani Mahama...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 53 No 1 | 
            - CÔTE D'IVOIRE
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     However  Ouattara’s relations with Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills  who was more equivocal over the election  remain less than enthusiastic...