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Ghana

Population: 33.74m
GDP: $75.24bn
Debt: 83.6% of GDP (2024)

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Cash and carry

After 100 days in office President John Kufuor and his New Patriotic Party have problems with corruption - mostly involving their predecessors, the National Democratic Congress. Outgoing NDC...


Brief honeymoon

President Kufuor's new team will have to take some tough decisions on the economy

The rest of the world congratulated Ghanaians for two well-run rounds of voting and a credible transition from one elected government to another. The New Patriotic Party's victory...


Jobs for Jak

After his chaotic inauguration ceremony on 7 January, new President John Agyekum Kufuor has earned the local sobriquet of 'Jak'. With a transition period of just eight days...


View of the Volta

A victorious opposition should remember Ghana's poorest people voted against it

Opposition politicians brim with confidence after the 7 December elections gave the New Patriotic Party 99 seats in the 200-seat parliament against 92 for the incumbent National Democratic...


A bandwagon for change

As President Rawlings prepares to bow out, the opposition parties have their best chance of winning power in a decade

One of Ghana's experienced political observers recently confided to a friend in Accra: 'For the first time in this country, I have no idea what is going to...


My country right and left

The seven presidential candidates and parties contesting the 7 December elections offer an odd mix of professed ideologies and political histories. For 50 years, Ghanaian political allegiance has...


Platonically yours

The plot reads like a cross between West African market literature and an American soap opera. Yet the 'love story' - or mere 'platonic relationship' - between presidential...


As you were

The suspense is over. President Jerry Rawlings told a special convention of his National Democratic Congress (NDC) on 29 April: 'When - I am not saying if -...


Turning off the taps

Relations between President Jerry Rawlings' government and the World Bank are at their lowest ebb following the Bank's decision to cancel a US$100 million water project loan because...


Tarnished gold

Confusion in the markets, muddle at the top and elections ahead

The peaceful march by oppositionists to a rally at Accra sports stadium on 25 November has put the country's wobbly economy back at the political centre-stage and President...


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