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Jerry John Rawlings (J.J.)

Date of Birth: 22 June 1947
Place of Birth: Accra
Died: 12 November 2020


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Rawlings does it

Jerry Rawlings has delivered the knockout blow he had promised for the 7 December presidential election (AC Vol 37 No 22) finishing some fifteen points ahead of his main rivals in the opposition Great Alliance which put forward John A...


Francophone friends

The opposition led by Joseph Ki-Zerbo's Parti pour la Démocratie et le Progrès has been notably mute over the affair while in late October President Jerry Rawlings sent Compaoré a special message of Ghana's esteem...


Close call

President Jerry Rawlings is far more popular than his ruling National Democratic Congress; the opposition 'Great Alliance' has been running only since August and is short of money...


Abacha's agbada

West Africa's civilianising military tradition has been established by Ghana' s Jerry Rawlings Niger' s Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara and Gambia' s Y ahya Jammeh all of whose governments have been recipients of Nigerian largesse...


Dodging democracy

Jammeh shows signs of emulating Ghana's Jerry Rawlings with plans to recreate himself as civilian leader after tilting the state and constitutional apparatus in his favour...


To Boutros or not

Washington's offered support for an African candidate for the UN post as well as Liberia was on the agenda at the impromptu talks between Jerry Rawlings and General Sani Abacha on 2 July...


Together against Jerry 

However party members are demanding an effective alliance against President Jerry Rawlings and his National Democratic Congress in the 10 December legislative and presidential elections...


Asylum? No, thanks

If things are not settled we hear the Ecowas Chairman Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings may recommend to its annual summit in August that its peacekeeping force should pull out...


Out of control

Boley was in Ghana and in touch with officials there but was unable to reach President Jerry Rawlings the Ecowas Chairman...


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