Ghana

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

A three-headed battle for control of Ghana's flagship Ashanti Goldfields Corporation began after its board declared on 28 September that it couldn't meet potential liabilities of US$450 million...

Britain's Department of International Development is at the centre of a political row after cancelling a contract with consultants linked to the opposition Reform Movement. The consultants, United...

Jerry John Rawlings' ruling National Democratic Congress is frenetically purging party ranks and has launched a full-frontal assault on a group of dissident NDC politicians known as...

Suffering from one of his recurrent bouts of malaria and against medical advice, President Jerry John Rawlings insisted on personally addressing, inter alia, the armed forces, the security...

The election season has come early. National elections are two years away but the two main parties - the ruling National Democratic Congress and the opposition New Patriotic...