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John Agyekum Kufuor

Date of Birth: 8 December 1938
Place of Birth: Kumasi, Ashanti Region


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Ruto revels in the western embrace

The first African head of state to secure a state visit to the US since Ghana's John Agyekum Kufuor in 2008 Ruto's tour appears restored Kenya to its former status as the most pro-US state in East Africa...


The succession race starts

In 2007 Kyerematen resigned from the same cabinet position under President John Kufuor for similar reasons but was defeated by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo the current President...


Oil spills and theft spike as big oil goes offshore

John Sentamu then the Archbishop of York in the United Kingdom was put in charge of the Commission with former Ghanaian President John Kufuor and former UK International Development Secretary Baroness Valerie Amos also on the panel...


The oil clean-up that didn't?

The Dickson panel includes John Sentamu Archbishop of York John Kufuor former President of Ghana Valerie Amos former Under-Secretary General of Humanitarian Assistance at the United Nations and academics...


JH Mensah, 1928-2018

Appointed as leader of government business and later senior minister by President John Kufuor JH played a key role in shaping policy in the earlier years of the administration...

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New order tackles old debts

Having worked on trade issues for the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa Kyerematen knows the brief and also held the Trade portfolio under the last NPP government led by John Kufuor...


It’s the contract election

President John Kufuor's New Patriotic Party government which made much of its success in doubling the size of Ghana's economy between 2000 and 2008 also had its critics on pre-election contracts...

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A moment of truth for the General

As the first results came through on the previous evening a trio of former presidents – Ghana's John Kufuor (who headed the election mission of the Economic Community of West African States) Malawi's Bakili Muluzi (heading the Commonwealth Observer Mission) and Liberia's Amos Sawyer – visited Jonathan to encourage him accept the results and slap down any attempt by his more rampant followers to derail the electoral process...

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Drill-ship in the dock

GNPC officials say the courts are likely also to hear claims of conflicts of interest over the choice of foreign lawyers after the NPP government dropped GNPC's legal team – and of an unhealthy relationship between Société Générale and the government of ex-President John Kufuor...


The vote on trial

The core group around Akufo-Addo led by Akyem people from his native Eastern Region has since 2008 marginalised many founding members seen as loyal to ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor and his Ashanti business friends...


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