John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills

For the first time since the return to constitutional rule in 1992 a sitting President John Evans Atta Mills (AC Vol 51 No 21) is being challenged by one (and perhaps two) members of his own party...

Of the seven leaders present four had credible electoral mandates: Ghana’s John Atta Mills Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Mali’s Amani Toumani Touré and Senegal’s Abdoulaye Wade...

housing project with Jiangsu International Group in Angola which signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ghanaian government during President John Atta Mills’s September 2010 trip to Beijing (AAC Vol 3 No 12 A consensual affair)...

More than halfway through President John Atta Mills’s ‘Action Year’ and almost a year since the government first announced that Ghana’s Eastern Corridor was to be rehabilitated a late July pledge from the China State Construction Engineering Corporation suggests that the development is closer to kick-off...

Critics of President John Atta Mills’s trade deals with China are claiming that two of the biggest financing arrangements are unlikely to go ahead as planned...

promised from Beijing during President John Atta Mills’s visit to China last month Abbey said such levels of debt looked ‘unsustainable’ regardless of projected oil revenues...

This exclusive and binding agreement between ExxonMobil and Kosmos foundered on the concerted opposition of the GNPC Minister of Energy Joe Oteng-Adjei and ultimately President John Evans Atta Mills...

’ In late July John Atta Mills set up a committee to review the transaction and suggest a way to resolve the dispute...

President John Evans Atta Mills has remained above the fray throughout the dispute between the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and Kosmos Energy but has set up two committees to advise him on policy on the contentious sale...

Since then President John Atta Mills’s government has blocked the deal initially because of a complex dispute between the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation and Kosmos about the company’s use of Ghana’s geophysical data in the sale negotiations...

That will make it all the more difficult for President John Atta Mills’s committee to reach a speedy conclusion on the matter...