A recent Ecowas mission led by Executive Secretary Mohamed ibn Chambas and Ghanaian Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo which visited Conakry seeking support for a negotiated settlement was received by the essentially powerless Prime Minister Lamine Sidimé rather than Conté who although in poor health still wields absolute power...
Kufuor can draw on the experience of ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohamed ibn Chambas Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings government and Presidential Secretary Daniel Kufuor Osei who was Ghana's Ambassador to Guinea during Liberia's first civil war...
On 24 June the LURD suspended its participation in the peace process complaining that Ecowas Executive Secretary Mohamed ibn Chambas a veteran of Liberian peace processes in the 1990s was making no attempt to enforce an agreement for Taylor to step down...
Taylor's opponents accuse Ecowas Executive Secretary Mohamed ibn Chambas of allowing the Liberian government to vet political party representatives and of failing to invite heavyweights like former interim President Amos Sawyer and George Boley whose National Democratic Party of Liberia is one of ten parties supporting Taylor's NPP...
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President John Agyekum Kufuor's decision to push for the appointment of Mohamed ibn Chambas as Ecowas Executive Secretary last December looks more and more like an inspired move although it was initially dismissed as a bid to buy off a sitting member of the opposition National Democratic Congress in Parliament...
Education Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and his deputy Mohamed ibn Chambas took the brunt of public anger; Spio-Garbrah was later given additional responsibility for Mines and Energy...
There are the personal factions: the First Lady faction dominated by Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and Enoch Teye (ET) Mensah; the Obed Asamoah faction led by the former Foreign Minister; the Ahwoi faction led by Local Government Minister Kwamena Ahwoi (now appointed acting Foreign Minister) and his brother Ato Ahwoi (energetic asset confiscators in the 1980s reputed to be among the wealthiest families in Ghana); the Fante Confederation faction which includes Totobi Quakyi and Ato Dadzie; and the Northern Faction led by Defence Minister Idrissu Mahama Issifu Ali Trade Minister Ibrahim Adamu Huudu Yahya and former Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed ibn Chambas...
They include former Deputy Foreign Minister Mohamed ibn Chambas (demoted to Deputy at Education although he was voted 'Minister of the Year' by a local radio station); Samuel Nuamah Donkor (now Deputy Health Minister); former Government Chief Whip Albert Bosumtwi-Sam (Deputy Interior Minister); Dr Christine Amoako-Nuamah (Education Minister); and Owuraku Amofa (Deputy Tourism Minister) the sole survivor from the Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere (EGLE) party set up by Rawlings' cousin Michael Soussoudis...
Boateng; deputy Foreign Minister Mohamed Ibn Chambas who has been one of the architects of Ghana's six-year military involvement in Liberia; and former Youth and Sports Minister E...
