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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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 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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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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	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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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	     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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	     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 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...