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Mahama's two defeats by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2016 and 2020 point to his campaigning weaknesses...
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Vol 64 No 10 |
- GHANA
- UGANDA
Weeks after Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo played down the prospects of his approving a draconian anti-homosexuality bill Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni had appeared to be following similar tactics by calling for parliament's original draft of the bill to be revised...
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's promise in his State of the Nation speech that the US$3 billion IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) would be presented to the Fund's Executive Board by the end of March did not come to pass...
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On 31 March despite stiff opposition from trade unions Parliament passed three tax bills presented by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government as part of its efforts to increase domestic revenue in order to secure the International Monetary Fund's Board Approval for a US$3 billion bailout...
Of the three commissioners who were sworn in by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 20 March the appointment of Peter Appiahene an assistant professor at the at the University of Energy and Natural Resources who was a long-time activist with the NPP's student wing has prompted most objections...
In a rowdy session in parliament on 8 March President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo used his state of the nation address to explain how the government planned to address the economic meltdown and payments crisis...
President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo's failure to address the issue during his state of the nation address in Parliament on 8 March prompted Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa an opposition lawmaker for the National Democratic Congress to demand an inquiry committee 'to probe the killing and the high-handedness meted out to the residents'...
Populist threatElected civilian presidents such as Ouattara Ghana's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Senegal's Macky Sall see the military regimes and their nationalistic rhetoric as a threat to the region's established governing class and its longstanding security and geopolitical alignment with Europe and the United States...
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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...
Lacking alternatives to the government's economic strategy the NDC calculates that blaming President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's team for the financial woes should suffice...
