Vol 2 (AAC) No 3 | GHANACHINA Ghana's votes and China's dams 30th January 2009 The Beijing-Accra axis, which dates back to the heady Independence days of President Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, is an important one for both sides. Beijing wants a strong economic re...
Vol 49 No 25 | GHANA The winner has to wait 12th December 2008 After one of the closest presidential elections ever, the front-runners are preparing for a run-off vote in less than three weeks’ time The hard-fought general elections on 7 December saw many national political figures lose their parliamentary seats. Neither of the two leading presidential candidates gained enough...
Vol 49 No 25 | GHANA More pressure on the cedi 12th December 2008 Whoever wins the second round of the presidential election – John Atta Mills or Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – will have to make tough economic decisions as soon as they take power...
Vol 49 No 19 | GHANA A rough beginning 19th September 2008 The election campaign is under way and the battle is on for votes in the north In northern Ghana, the campaign got off to a violent start when Mahamudu Bawumia, vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party for the elections on 7 December, arrived in...
Vol 49 No 19 | GHANA Running mates 19th September 2008 The two main parties’ vice-presidential candidates are both under fifty years old and from northern Ghana. Otherwise they are very different. The National Democratic Congress’s Jo...
Vol 49 No 18 | GHANA Voting violence 5th September 2008 Concern about the conduct of December’s elections is growing in the wake of violent clashes during the primary elections, electoral registration and political rallies.
Vol 49 No 17 | GHANA Right number, right time 22nd August 2008 Just as the government runs out of money before the elections, along comes an offer that is hard to refuse It is a rule of politics that any substantial sale of state assets agreed less than six months before national elections needs close scrutiny. The government's decision to sell a ...
Vol 49 No 17 | GHANA The high price of political phones 22nd August 2008 Political controversy has dogged Ghana Telecom since the telecom sector was deregulated in the mid-1990s under the National Democratic Congress government. Its performance under th...
Vol 49 No 16 | GHANA Presidents and lawyers 1st August 2008 The tortuous prosecution of a former state oil company boss raises questions about the independence of the judiciary Even his opponents concede that Tsatsu Tsikata is a gifted lawyer, whose ties with ex-President Jerry John Rawlings have kept him at the centre of Ghana's bitter political battles....
Vol 49 No 14 | GHANA Industrial revolution 4th July 2008 Ghana seeks partners following its 19 June purchase of Alcoa's 10% stake in the 200,000 tonne/year Volta Aluminum Company (Valco) smelter, mothballed since March 2007. The statal V...