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John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills

Date of Birth: 21 July 1944
Place of Birth: Tarkwa, Western Region
Died: 24 July 2012


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The Mahama factor

After taking over from the late President John Evans Atta Mills in July (AC Vol 53 No 17 After a unifying funeral a divisive election) Mahama wanted to announce some substantive policy changes without stamping on his predecessor’s legacy...


The democracy question

The NDC’s challenge failed and its mild-mannered presidential candidate John Atta Mills bided his time until 2008 when he and the NDC won the presidency...


Elections 2012: Mahama ahead by a hair

Since he took over from the late John Evans Atta Mills in July the diplomatic Mahama has brought a measure of unity back into NDC affairs...


The Mahama swing

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...


Politicking after the mourning

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...


Obsequies and summitry

First they organised a near-seamless transition after President John Evans Atta Mills's death in the afternoon of 24 July...


The founder's fury

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’...


Diplomatic challenge

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...


Who paid whom for what?

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...


It's Woyome time

President John Evans Atta Mills duly obliged but also ordered the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to investigate the Woyome payments...


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