President John Dramani Mahama confirmed on 18 August the referendum on entrenched constitutional provisions will be held alongside the 2027 District Assembly elections with the thresholds cited in the report: at least 40% of registered voters must participate and 75% of those voting must approve the changes...

It has lit the fire again under accusations that President John Dramani Mahama's National Democratic Congress (NDC) government is using the levers of the law to dismantle the opposition...

FIXING SAHELIAN SCHISMS: Ghana proposes an a la carte security pact After seven months of diplomatic shuttling Larry Gbevlo-Lartey special envoy from Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama to the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES) is awaiting final responses from leaders to Accra's proposal for a new regional security grouping – a coalition of the willing to counter the spreading threat from violent jihadism...

The subject of money and contracts weakened Senegal and has been a factor in past World Cups severely disrupted teams' harmony – most notoriously at Brazil 2014 when then-Ghana President John Dramani Mahama intervened to approve emergency cash payments to avert a players' strike...

8 billion in World Bank financing and jeopardising a $3bn IMF programme if President John Dramani Mahama signs the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill into law according to a policy brief issued by the country's Finance Ministry...

The Ghana government's repatriation of over 950 Ghanaian citizens from South Africa has yielded a surge in support locally for President John Mahama's government even as it signals a chilling of relations between Accra and Pretoria...

President John Mahama argued that the economic outlook has sharply improved since his election setting out the government's stance on foreign policy reparations and the need for greater African influence at the United Nations (Dispatches 16/3/26 Mahama to take reparations campaign to the UN)...

The programme complements sector-specific initiatives including the ‘Feed Ghana' agricultural and livestock focus which formed a key pillar of President John Mahama's 2024 election campaign...

At the OECD summit in Paris Nana Oye Bampoe Addo deputy chief of staff to President John Dramani Mahama outlined Mahama's plans to revamp healthcare under his ‘Accra Reset' launched last year...

One concern is that the campaign is being led commercially by President John Dramani Mahama's brother Ibrahim the majority shareholder of E&P...

Other opponents raise conflict-of-interest concerns including President John Dramani Mahama's frequent use of a new private jet leased by his brother's firm E&P for official trips...