Jerry John Rawlings (J.J.)

Some more ideological middle-ranking officers frustrated by continuing economic and political mismanagement speak of skipping a generation - forcibly pushing out the current ruling group military and civilian and installing a revolutionary regime modelled on that of Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings in Ghana...

Jerry John Rawlings in a junior officers' coup...

An astute change of strategy by President Jerry Rawlings to secure victory for his National Democratic Congress in the 2000 elections owes something to American history...

The latest state television advert in Nigeria celebrates the achievements of great military leaders who have pulled their countries back from the brink of disaster: men such as George Washington Charles de Gaulle Jerry Rawlings and yes President Suharto...

Closer to home Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings and Gambia's Yahya Jammeh have publicly approved...

The best chance for the ruling National Democratic Congress to win the election in 2000 would be to find a way to put up incumbent President Jerry John Rawlings for a third term...

Other than Jerry Rawlings and Atta-Mills the frontrunner for the NDC ticket is First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings whose political standing has been boosted by a cluster of well- financed extra-governmental (rather than non-governmental) organisations such as the 31 December Women's Movement (31 DWM) and the Verandah Boys (with its Nkrumaist echoes) organised by Faustina Nelson a Nana Konadu acolyte...

Car thefts at gun-point a high-speed chase through the streets of Accra on a hot Sunday afternoon live commentary on the car-chase on local radio a track-suited President Jerry Rawlings joining the hunt and finally a suspect arrested in a stolen car...

While he doesn't face a regional alliance against him of the sort that ousted Mobutu Sese Seko regional governments view his military regime with a mixture of frustration and alarm; they (including new friends such as Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings and Liberia's Charles Taylor) regard its project to oust Koroma as perverse costly and likely to end in fiasco...

It was Ghana's Jerry Rawlings who then sought support especially from Nigeria for an intervention force to evacuate non-Liberian West Africans trapped in the conflict...