Vol 45 No 12 | GHANA Fly me, I'm Moroni 11th June 2004 Ghana Airways, the bankrupt state airline, is to get a helping hand from an unlikely and controversial source two Mormon-owned companies from Salt Lake City in the...
Vol 45 No 8 | GHANA Registration rumpus 16th April 2004 Politicians blame bureaucrats, bureaucrats blame politicians. That's democracy Confusion and recriminations followed the voter registration process for December's presidential and parliamentary elections, which took place over two weeks last month. Many voters blame the...
Vol 45 No 4 | GHANA Judging Jerry 20th February 2004 In 1982, a few months after Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings successfully staged a coup, three High Court judges and an army officer were brutally murdered and their...
Vol 45 No 3 | GHANA Strong scent 4th February 2004 A heady whiff of vengeance pervades the parties' campaigns against corruption Ghana's most popular song these days is 'Scent noo, agye bebiara' ('The smell is everywhere', in Twi). Its subject is corruption, still a key political issue three years...
Vol 45 No 3 | GHANA Kaiser's bill 4th February 2004 It's election year and President John Kufuor wants to make the struggling economy look good. He promised his party's wealthy patrons a golden age for business; so far,...
Vol 44 No 22 | GHANA Politics get crude 7th November 2003 Money, oil and scandals are the key to pre-election politics The row over crude oil supplies to the state-owned Volta River Authority is turning into a full-scale political battle in the run up to next year's general elections....
Vol 44 No 22 | GHANANIGERIA Gaius says goodbye 7th November 2003 The sacking of Jackson Gaius Obaseki, Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, on 3 November, is linked to the growing problems with well connected firm Sahara...
Vol 44 No 14 | GHANA Diplomacy central 11th July 2003 President Kufuor's government is reaping new benefits from its regional security role Accra has become the centre for the inchoate efforts to end Liberia's civil war after weeks of hosting inconclusive peace talks and now, planeloads of foreign military planners....
Vol 44 No 10 | GHANA Cotton tales 16th May 2003 The previous government's financial misdeeds are a boon to President John Kufuor Three former officials of ex-President Jerry Rawlings's National Democratic Congress (NDC) were gaoled on 28 April for their part in the Quality Grain scandal, involving a loan of...
Vol 44 No 10 | GHANA Musical chairs 16th May 2003 President John Agyekum Kufuor's late March cabinet changes brought in some younger ministers and deputy ministers, but were dismissed by the opposition National Democratic Congress as 'more recycle...