Vol 42 No 25 | GHANA Going private against the grain 21st December 2001 Ghana's privatisation efforts have so far done little more than cut the public payroll. State assets were often sold at cut price to politically connected companies operating under...
Vol 42 No 17 | GHANA Reality checks 31st August 2001 Party management, fighting recession and trying miscreants dominate the NPP agenda Eight months into his first term, the glister is coming off John Agyekum Kufuor's presidency. Glad-handing his New Patriotic Party government and demonising the outgoing National Democratic Congress...
Vol 42 No 11 | GHANA Ole Kufuor! 1st June 2001 The President scores on his first major international trip As a row simmered over security for former President Jerry John Rawlings, President John Kufuor jetted off to speak at the African Development Bank's 29-31 May meeting in...
Vol 42 No 9 | GHANA A hundred days of Kufuor 4th May 2001 The new government scores high on political tolerance but is struggling over how to tackle the economic mess it inherited No one can blame President John Agyekum Kufuor for the economic chaos he inherited on 7 January, when he took over from Jerry John Rawlings. However, plenty of...
Vol 42 No 8 | GHANA Cash and carry 20th April 2001 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...
Vol 42 No 2 | GHANA Brief honeymoon 26th January 2001 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...
Vol 42 No 1 | GHANA Jobs for Jak 12th January 2001 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...
Vol 41 No 25 | GHANA View of the Volta 22nd December 2000 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...
Vol 41 No 23 | GHANA A bandwagon for change 24th November 2000 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...
Vol 41 No 23 | GHANA My country right and left 24th November 2000 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...