Jerry John Rawlings (J.J.)

In the third Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for the second week of December should signal the final handover from the military era of Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings to his civilian successor...

After weeks of violence in which 100 of them were killed Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings flew to Libya on 7 October to bring home 238 Ghanaians...

Others accuse the Bank of being highly selective on corruption: why did it get tough in Ghana but led moves to resume multilateral lending to Kenya where the government has a longer and worse record of graft than President Jerry Rawlings' regime...

While Mr and Mrs Djentu were held in custody awaiting sentence Amnesty International regarded them as prisoners of conscience Carrying snippets of love trysts and life with the first family in banal detail the Ghana media is embarrassing the ruling National Democratic Congress ahead of December's elections when President Jerry Rawlings (and First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings) is to stand down after 18 years in power...

President Jerry Rawlings told a special convention of his National Democratic Congress (NDC) on 29 April: 'When - I am not saying if - when I step down let me assure you that I am not going anywhere...

Relations between President Jerry Rawlings' government and the World Bank are at their lowest ebb following the Bank's decision to cancel a US$100 million water project loan because of corruption concerns...

Compaoré will be carefully watching his southern neighbour Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings who is scheduled to make way for his successor after December's presidential elections...

The peaceful march by oppositionists to a rally at Accra sports stadium on 25 November has put the country's wobbly economy back at the political centre-stage and President Jerry John Rawlings' government on the defensive...

Though Ohene Kena must have cleared that statement with President Jerry Rawlings he was unceremoniously sacked on 13 October and replaced by Ekwow Spio-Garbrah a close political ally of First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings: at the same time the government said it hadn't made a decision on Lonmin's bid - to the surprise of Lonmin Chairman Sir John Craven...

President Jerry Rawlings' government has been ambivalent on debt relief since Tokyo warned it would cut bilateral aid if Accra accepted an HIPC deal...