Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

In November the Ghanaian President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo delivered a stern indictment of Africa's dependency on European benefactors both economically and politically during a visit to Accra by President Emmanuel Macron of France (AC Vol 58 No 25 Power to the president's elbow)...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo starts the year well ahead of the governing New Patriotic Party in the popularity stakes after a difficult first year in power...

Beating John Dramani Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) by nearly a million votes in the presidential election the NPP entered office under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on a wave of high hopes...

While Nana Akufo-Addo's governing New Patriotic Party will milk this apparent turnaround in the court of public opinion much as the former National Democratic Congress government did in the first full year of Ghanaian oil production back in 2011 (when growth reached double digits) this figure is likely to be a one-off...

Under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's new government Ghana is coming to terms with an inherited debt of about 80% of its GDP: it is restructuring its domestic liabilities stretching out its IMF programme until the end of next year and renegotiating some of the ruinously overpriced energy projects contracted by its predecessor (AC Vol 58 No 5 A racing start in spite of the rocky finances)...

' The newly elected Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo also has a US PR team KRL International LLC...

This was underlined by his visits to Ghana which is seen as less sympathetic under its new President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the Western Sahara's Polisario Front and to Nigeria whose President Muhammadu Buhari the King invited to Morocco...

So in his first state of the nation address on 21 February President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo pushed ahead with his ambitious agenda for social and economic reform after first sounding some grave warnings about his government's economic inheritance...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party have a good relationship with neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Dramane Ouattara who was guest of honour at the swearing in ceremony in Accra on 7 January (AC Vol 58 No 1 New order tackles old debts)...

The clear victory of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo by over 900 000 votes in the 7 December presidential election triggered a business-like transition with most new ministers due to start work on 11 January (AC Vol 57 No 25 A turning point vote for the Black Star)...