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Ghana

John Agyekum Kufuor

Date of Birth: 8 December 1938
Place of Birth: Kumasi, Ashanti Region


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The winner has to wait

The failure to create jobs fast enough to absorb the growing jobless queue will be seen as one of the key shortcomings of President John Kufuor NPP’s government – even if the pace of job creation has stepped up during the last two years of boom...


More pressure on the cedi

Since then President John Kufuor’s New Patriotic Party government has beaten down inflation by over 40% to just under 10% only to see it rise to 18% again this year...


A rough beginning

Mills’s ethnic-based attack on President John Kufuor accusing him of neglecting the interests of Central region fishermen ‘because there is no sea in the Ashanti region’ is seen as a sign of desperation...


Running mates

He has advised President John Kufuor's government on crucial economic decisions such as joining the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative inflation targeting revaluation of the cedi and reform of the banking sector to prepare for the oil industry...


The neighbours start to turn

Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Nigeria and John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana also recently censured the regime’s economic and political tactics...


Paying the price

President John Agyekum Kufuor’s government faces new problems both political and economic as it prepares for national elections in December when the President will step down...


A last chance reshuffle

Three days after announcing his economic package President John Kufuor completed his much-delayed reshuffle...


The departed return

Two weeks later President John Agyekum Kufuor persuaded him to walk back in again...


Can the opposition fight and can it rule?

Now they have gone beyond the region to build closer ties with Raila Odinga in Kenya (whose party they see as a possible model for Zimbabwe) and President John Kufuor of Ghana...


Cash call

President John Agyekum Kufuor discreetly backed Kyerematen – popularly known as ‘Alan Cash’ for his free-spending campaign style – to succeed him and was unhappy that Kyerematen lost...


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