John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills

To mark his hundredth day in office on 17 April President John Evans Atta Mills gave his government eight out of ten for trying to fight corruption protect citizens from armed robbers cut the costs of government and fuel prices (AC Vol 50 Nos 2 & 3)...

They all held senior positions during Flight Lieutenant (Retired) Rawlings's 1981-2001 military-cum-civilian government in which John Atta Mills served as Vice-President; PV Obeng was effectively Prime Minister (until he resigned over corruption allegations in 1996); Tsikata ran security (until he was forced out in a squabble over control of the party); and Kwamena Ahwoi was Local Government Minister...

Perhaps the toughest job in President John Atta Mills's government is the Finance and Economic Planning portfolio held by Kwabena Duffuor...

Three weeks after being sworn in as President in succession to John Agyekum Kufuor Professor John Evans Atta Mills has completed his cabinet line-up and set about formulating an economic blueprint which he hopes will last throughout his four-year term...

President John Evans Atta Mills tactfully tries to distance himself from Rawlings' excesses and from his dodgier friends...

Six months ago John Atta Mills told Africa Confidential in Accra that he had grave concerns about Acheampong's management of the police and its failure to act against drug trafficking...

The National Democratic Congress' John Evans Atta Mills won the second round of the presidential elections on 28 December with less than 50 000 votes...

Estimating the government's budget deficit at 14% of gross domestic product (GDP) and the trade deficit higher still Diwan wrote to new President John Atta Mills: 'Tackling the twin deficits is an urgent priority both to avoid the occurrence of a socially painful financial crisis and also to lay the ground for a period of accelerated growth when oil revenues start flowing most probably around 2011...

The narrowness of the victory (fewer than 50 000 of over 8 000 000 votes cast) by John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress over Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) reflects sharp national political divisions...

New President John Atta Mills tried to dampen down tension and has appointed some non-NDC members to his team...

President John Atta Mills's government has been negotiating with CNOOC which has announced its interest in buying the Kosmos stake...

On 20 September Fu met President John Evans Atta Mills in Accra and signed a deal for CNOOC to provide the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) with technical and financial cooperation in oil exploration...

In Africa the row surfaced after Ghana's new government under President John Atta Mills inquired into the source of hundreds of thousands of bags of rice warehoused in Accra...