Vol 45 No 25 | GHANA Now for the hard work 17th December 2004 Having won clean elections, Kufuor's government has serious work to do Ghanaians surprised themselves on 7 December, when 84 per cent of the electorate turned out to return John Agyekum Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party to the presidency...
Vol 45 No 24 | GHANA Talk of the towns 3rd December 2004 The ruling NPP is in the lead but tight budgets hurt it in the towns President John Agyekum Kufuor's ruling New Patriotic Party can take nothing for granted ahead of the 7 December elections, although his party is favoured to win the presidency...
Vol 45 No 21 | GHANA Smelling an elephant 22nd October 2004 The election was bad tempered even before it began and a car crash made it worse A road crash recalled the bad old days, dramatically opening the race for presidential and parliamentary elections due on 7 December. The victim was Alhaji Mohamed Mumuni, set...
Vol 45 No 16 | GHANA Caution, democrats at work 6th August 2004 Everyone is quarrelling healthily ahead of the elections and the result is still open The race to the national elections on 7 December is getting closer and noisier. Despite the governing New Patriotic Party's mixed record on the economy, it remains a...
Vol 45 No 14 | GHANA HIPC Junction 9th July 2004 Depending on donors is no easy task for a government which wants to get re-elected Ghanaians call it 'going HIPC': signing up to debt relief as prescribed under the World Bank's and International Monetary Fund's Highly Indebted Poor Countries initiative. President John Agyekum...
Vol 45 No 14 | GHANA Chinese puzzle 9th July 2004 Breaking a deafening government silence since a controversial Chinese loan agreement was rushed through parliament at the end of its last sitting in April, the embattled Finance and...
Vol 45 No 14 | GHANAAROUND AFRICA 419, and counting 9th July 2004 Advanced Fee Frauds or '419s', have become as common in Ghana as in Nigeria, where they were invented. Ghanaian banks have published warnings in the press that their...
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...