Ghana's John Dramani Mahama Kenya's William Samoei Ruto and South Sudan's Salva Kiir Mayardit along with Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (both Rosatom clients) all held bilateral meetings with Putin...

GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER Since 2024 the Sahelian capitals – Bamako Ouagadougou and Niamey – have received several senior West African visitors: Yusuf Tuggar then Nigeria's foreign minister; Benin's former presidents Nicéphore Soglo and Thomas Boni Yayi; presidents Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal John Dramani Mahama of Ghana Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone and Romuald Wadagni of Benin; and Lansana Kouyaté Ecowas's chief negotiator with the AES...

When Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie leaves office in December having reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 President John Dramani Mahama will choose a successor who could shape Ghana's judiciary for years...

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...