New ruler moves to pre-empt Ecowas The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has been reflecting on the regional response to events in Conakry with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara said to have spoken with the new military ruler Colonel Mamady Doumbouya on Monday while Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo organised an 8 September emergency regional summit...
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Then on 6 July hundreds of the NDC's youth wing marched through central Accra to hand in a petition to President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo and Parliamentary speaker Alvin Bagbin demanding the government 'de-politicise the security services… introducing reforms to give true meaning to (their) independence...
Civic activists and opposition politicians are pressing President Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government on its response to the Covid-19 pandemic particularly the lack of accountability around procurement...
The sentiment held good in Ghana where Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo won the presidency by a landslide in 2016 in part on promises that he would end the dead weight of political and corporate corruption on the country (AC Vol 57 No 25 A turning point vote for the Black Star)...
In March the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations Against Corruption lambasted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the dismissal of Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo after forcing him to go on a 167-day accumulated leave' (AC Vol 59 No 24 Hey big spender...
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They include South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara Senegal's Macky Sall Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Ethiopia's Sahle-Work Zewde Mozambique's Filipe Nyusi and Angola's João Lourenço together with three prime ministers: Spain's Pedro Sanchez Italy's Mario Draghi and Portugal's António Costa (AC Vol 62 No 4 France holds tight in the Sahel & Vol 62 No 9 Death on the front line a coup and then an about turn)...
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Like others in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government Ofori-Atta is taking civil society organisations more seriously these days...
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Government officials are using co-option and confrontation against the '#FixTheCountry' campaign which lambasts the economic and social policies of President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo's government...
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President Nana Akufo-Addo inherited this situation when he beat Mahama in the general election of December 2016...
THE ENTERPRISING MAHAMAS During Ghana's vigorous election campaigns ex-President John Mahama's National Democratic Congress and President Nana Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party trade vicious accusations about wholesale corruption by the other party but prosecutions are rare...
6 December In the general election Nana Akufo-Addo's NPP comes to power and Mahama loses office...
President Nana Akufo-AddoThe leader whose government commissioned a thorough investigation of the terms of the contracts between MPS and GPHA but ignored the conclusions of the report – that all terms should be completely renegotiated...
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Current Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta whose reappointment by President Nana Akufo-Addo still has to be vetted by parliament is in the United States on medical leave...
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At the same time the opposition has been contesting the Electoral Commission's results in the presidential election giving the NPP's Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo 51...