This complicates President John Dramani Mahama's ambitious economic plans – the development of a 24-hour economy focusing on agro-processing pharmaceuticals and construction to drive higher growth and employment...
Through his visits to the military rulers of Mali Niger and Burkina Faso in the week ending 14 March Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama may have helped thaw the froideur between the three Sahelian states and the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) bloc they quit on 29 January...
Reading the 2025 budget to parliament on 11 March Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson kept to the economic reset script and promises of a far-reaching National Economic Dialogue championed by President John Dramani Mahama...
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Vol 66 No 6 |
- SAHEL
- ECOWAS
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has stepped up his efforts to reconcile the three juntas who quit Ecowas to set up the breakaway Alliance of Sahel States with the regional bloc (AC Vol 66 No 3 Sahel-exit tests western miners and Russia's military muscle)...
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The original award of the Offshore Cape Three Points licence to ENI under President John Mahama's first administration in January 2015 had attracted some controversy with critics arguing that the terms were disproportionately generous to Eni (AC Vol 59 No 10 Tax and spend dilemmas)...
Cruising to power on promise-packed manifesto John Dramani Mahama has made several radical moves in his first two months in office but his plan to sell off the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) could cut across more vested interests than most of the policy shifts...
That's why Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has appointed his former security coordinator Larry Gbevlo-Lartey as Accra's envoy to the Sahel juntas to restore military and economic cooperation...
The new government in Accra under John Dramani Mahama faces local pressure to reverse this...
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Tackling illegal mining threatens to be an early and potentially intractable problem for President John Mahama who was reelected in December eight years after being ousted by the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (AC Vol 65 No 25 Mahama lacks time to turn his promised reset into reality)...
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On 7 January thousands of Ghanaians thronged Black Star Square in central Accra for John Dramani Mahama's ‘second coming' as many were calling his inauguration and return to the presidency...
This dismissal does not prevent a new petitioner trying to secure the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo under new President John Dramani Mahama's government...
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