Questions about political bias and conflicts of interest are being raised by the double-hatted post of Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice currently held by Godfred Dame a protégé of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (AC Vol 64 No 6 Fights over debt and public spending are shaping the election campaign)...
Outgoing Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah was lauded by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo but castigated by the opposition National Democratic Congress for his handling of their appeal against the results of the 2020 elections...
Ghana's highest court has ruled unconstitutional President Nana Akufo-Addo's demand three years ago for the Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo to go on leave...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo told the Qatar Economic Forum on 24 May that the IMF deal would help Ghana reposition its economy bring down interest rates and manage public spending...
Although West Africa's second largest economy had been expected to receive an International Monetary Fund deal in the coming months the IMF's 17 May announcement – that its Executive Board has approved the US$3 billion three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) requested by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government – is a major development that has already boosted the cedi Africa's worst performing currency in 2022...
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But controversy still swirls around the government's 'gold purchase' and 'gold-for-oil' programmes that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo touted in his March 'State of the Nation' address as 'already bearing fruit'...
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Mahama's two defeats by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2016 and 2020 point to his campaigning weaknesses...
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Vol 64 No 10 |
- GHANA
- UGANDA
Weeks after Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo played down the prospects of his approving a draconian anti-homosexuality bill Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni had appeared to be following similar tactics by calling for parliament's original draft of the bill to be revised...
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's promise in his State of the Nation speech that the US$3 billion IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) would be presented to the Fund's Executive Board by the end of March did not come to pass...
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On 31 March despite stiff opposition from trade unions Parliament passed three tax bills presented by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government as part of its efforts to increase domestic revenue in order to secure the International Monetary Fund's Board Approval for a US$3 billion bailout...
Of the three commissioners who were sworn in by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on 20 March the appointment of Peter Appiahene an assistant professor at the at the University of Energy and Natural Resources who was a long-time activist with the NPP's student wing has prompted most objections...