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Ghana: Party Boss Angered Over Election Results

Posted: 03/03/2010
Mr. Stephen Ayensu Ntim, a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who lost the national chairmanship race narrowly to Mr. Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, has expressed regret over certain developments that occurred during the party's national conference held in Kumasi on Saturday.

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Ghana: Political Kudos

Posted: 01/13/2009
"It's a triumph for Africa," headlined Kenya's Daily Nation on January 7, as Ghana's new President, opposition leader John AttaMills, was sworn in after a closely fought election (http://tinyurl.com/9sdwqs). The sentiment was repeated around the continent and the world, often with pointed comments on the contrast to other recent elections on the continent.

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Ghana: World's Press Celebrates Election

Posted: 01/12/2009
The world's press is celebrating Ghana's peaceful transfer of power after an extremely close run-off election. Opposition candidate John Atta Mills defeated the ruling party's Nana Akufo-Addo by less than one half of a percentage point of the vote.

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Ghana's new leader takes office

Posted: 01/07/2009
John Atta Mills is sworn in as Ghana's new president at celebrations in the capital, Accra.

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Ghana: Nation Appoints First Woman Speaker

Posted: 01/07/2009
Ghana has confirmed the appointment of her first ever woman Speaker of Parliament, Justice Mrs Joyce Bamford-Addo, a retired Supreme Court judge.

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Ghana: President-Elect Takes Office Today

Posted: 01/07/2009
Thousands of Ghanaians and other invited guests have been gathering at Ghana's Independence Square in Accra since 5 am this morning to witness the swearing-in ceremony of Professor John Atta Mills as the third President of the fourth republic.

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John ATTA MILLS Wins Ghana's Presidential Run-Off Election

Posted: 01/07/2009
Ex-law professor and former Ghanaian Vice President John ATTA MILLS, candidate of the National Democratic Congress, was declared winner on Saturday of a tense presidential run-off election. ATTA MILLS beat his opponent Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO ADDO of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) by a razor-thin margin of 40,586 votes, or a scant 0.46 percent of the vote, in a run-off poll only concluded after delayed voting in a single constituency on January 2. While the run-off election was held in the country's 229 other constituencies on December 28, problems with the distribution of ballots forced election officials to postpone voting in the rural Tain constituency until January 2. With the votes from all constituencies finally counted and results certified, ATTA MILLS was sworn into office on Wednesday.

Source: ElectionGuide

Ghana: UN Lauds Elections

Posted: 01/05/2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated the people and Government of Ghana on the peaceful and organized end to their recent presidential and legislative elections.

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Ghanaian leader in plea to rivals

Posted: 01/02/2009
Ghanaian President John Kufuor urges both candidates in the election to choose his successor to respect the result.

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Ghana: Ruling Party Seeks Poll Delay

Posted: 01/02/2009
Ghana's ruling party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), said yesterday it was seeking for security reasons to delay voting scheduled for today in Tain constituency that will decide a knife-edge presidential election. The party has gone to court for this purpose.

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Ghana: Yield to Election Commission, Kufuor Urges

Posted: 01/02/2009
President John Agyekum Kufuor, in his New Year message, has urged the two leading parties, the NPP and NDC, to yield to the authority of the EC to ensure the transitional process is kept on track. President Kufuor is expected to hand over to a new president on January 7.

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Ghana: Voting Begins in Key Area Despite Boycott

Posted: 01/02/2009
Voters in the rural Tain constituency of western central Ghana were trickling into polling stations Friday in an election that could decide who becomes the country's next president.

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Ghana: Ruling Party Tries to Block Election Result

Posted: 01/02/2009
An Accra fast track court, with Justice Amoako Asante sitting, has ordered the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its chairman, Peter Mac Manu (plaintiffs) seeking an injunction on the Chair of Ghana's Electoral Commission from announcing the December 28 presidential run-off elections, to serve the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Afari Gyan and the New Democratic Congress as interested parties before the case will be heard.

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Single Constituency Will Determine Winner in Ghana's Presidential Run-off Today

Posted: 01/02/2009
Voters in the Tain constituency will determine the outcome of their country's presidential run-off election in a delayed vote today. While voters in each of the country's other constituencies cast their run-off votes on Sunday, December 28, problems with the distribution of ballots in Tain forced election officials to postpone the poll in the rural constituency until January 2. And as officials tallied the votes cast on December 28, it became clear that Tain's some 53,000 registered voters would be given the responsibility of choosing the country's next president. Official results from the country's other 229 constituencies show candidate John Evans ATTA-MILLS of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) leading rival Nana Addo Dankwa AKUFO ADDO of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) by a razor-thin margin of 23,055 votes. Earlier this week, the NPP filed a legal motion to postpone the January 2 vote in Tain, which the country's Electoral Commission denied. Polls opened on time in Tain this morning and vote count will commence upon their closure at 5:00pm, local time.

Source: ElectionGuide

Scramble for decisive Ghana votes

Posted: 12/31/2008
Opposition candidate John Atta Mills heads for the Ghana constituency which will decide the tight presidential run-off.

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Ghana: Election Goes Into Second Run-Off

Posted: 12/31/2008
Ghanaians still have to wait till Friday, and perhaps beyond, to know who succeeds John Kuffuor as President - even with the election already held twice this month.

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Ghana: Election Stalemated, Set for Another Run-off

Posted: 12/31/2008
For the second time since her December 7, 2008 national election, Ghana has again failed to elect a new president even with the runoff held last Sunday.

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Ghana: No President-Elect Yet

Posted: 12/31/2008
Ghana's test as a model democracy in coup-wracked West Africa will be stretched over a few more days as election officials investigate fraud allegations and conduct a missed poll in one district.

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Ghana: Nation on Knife Edge as Election Result Delayed

Posted: 12/30/2008
The announcement of Ghana's presidential election result is being delayed as parties haggle over vote counts in disputed constituencies, according to Ghanaian radio reports.

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Ghana: Run-Off Hits Major Hitch

Posted: 12/29/2008
The Chronicle independent monitoring of yesterday's presidential run-off especially in Volta and Ashanti regions has revealed that violence were visited on some of the agents who were sent to monitor the election. Most of the NPP agents who were sent to the Volta region for instance were prevented from doing their work by the local people. At Sogakofe in the South Tongu constituency for instance these NPP agents were.

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Ghana examines vote fraud claims

Posted: 12/29/2008
Ghana poll monitors are probing fraud claims, as partial unofficial results project a slender lead for the opposition presidential candidate.

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Ghana: Opposition Holds Narrow Election Lead

Posted: 12/29/2008
The Electoral Commission has released 109 certified results 20 hours after the polls closed across the country. With the 109 certified results released so far, the NDC�s Professor Evans Atta-Mills is ahead with 54.42% and NPP�s Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo has 45.58% of the total votes cast. The media has however released over 210 provisional results so far. The EC has promised to release the results of presidential run-off within 48 hours after polls closed. It is however not clear what is going to happen to that timeline with results from the Tain constituency still outstanding. Voters in Tain have yet to cast their votes in the presidential run-off following a dispute over missing ballot papers.

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Ghana: Election is Not War - Kuffuor

Posted: 12/29/2008
Election is not a do-or-die affair in Ghana, its President, John Kuffuor, said on Sunday in his counsel to voters in the rerun poll to choose his successor.

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Ghana: Opposition DFP Backs Ruling Party Ahead of Run-Off

Posted: 12/16/2008
THE DEMOCRATIC Freedom Party (DFP) has opted to throw its weight behind the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) led Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the December 28 presidential run-off.

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Ghana Set for Presidential Run-Off on December 28

Posted: 12/11/2008
Ghana's electoral commission announced on Thursday that it would hold a presidential run-off election on December 28, 2008, because none of the eight candidates running in the December 7 poll won an absolute majority of the vote. Ghana's constitution requires candidates to win an absolute majority of the popular vote in order to be elected the country's highest office. Nana Addo Danquah AKUFO-ADDO of the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) and John Evans ATTA MILLS of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who won the two largest proportions of the December 7 first round vote, will face one another in the December 28 run-off. Domestic and international observers monitoring the December 7 poll praised election commission's administration of the electoral process. Observer John STREMLAU of the Atlanta-based Carter Center concluded that, "these were high quality, very transparent, orderly, peaceful, patient fine elections."

Source: ElectionGuide

Ghana election to go to a run-off

Posted: 12/10/2008
Ghana's presidential election must be decided in a second-round vote, the electoral commission announces.

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Ghana: Signs Point to Runoff in Presidential Poll

Posted: 12/10/2008
Hundreds of journalists and representative of political parties have gathered at the national headquarters of Ghana's Electoral Commission where the Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, is expected announce the results of Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections.

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Ghana: Aspirants Run Neck-and-Neck as Polls Deadline Looms

Posted: 12/10/2008
As the deadline for the release of Ghana's election results approached on Wednesday, the main presidential contenders were still running neck-and-neck.

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Ghana: Africa, Europe Endorse Polling

Posted: 12/10/2008
The conduct of the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana continued to receive more endorsements yesterday with the African Union (AU), European Union (EU), the Carter Foundation and the Commonwealth Observer Missions hailing the polls as orderly, peaceful and transparent.

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Ghana: Anxiety Mounts Over Election Results

Posted: 12/09/2008
The delay in the release of official results of Sunday's presidential election in Ghana seemed to have started raising political temperature in the West African country.

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Ghana: Voters Head for Polls in Tight Race

Posted: 12/05/2008
Ghanaians head to the polls Sunday to vote in what could be prove to be tightly-contested presidential and parliamentary elections.

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Ghana: Critical Issues in 7 December Elections

Posted: 12/04/2008
As closely-fought electoral campaigns close before the anticipated presidential and legislative 7 December elections, observers say Ghanaians have enjoyed a rare chance to focus on critical issues.

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Ghana: Poll Predicts Ruling Party to Win First Round

Posted: 12/03/2008
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) have swiftly reacted to a nationwide survey conducted by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), which predicted a first round win for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

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Ghana: Electoral Commission Pledges Neutrality

Posted: 12/03/2008
Mr. Steven Opoku-Mensah, Western Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) said the Commission will not hesitate to dismiss any polling assistant found to have taken sides with any political party.

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Ghana: Election Focuses on Issues, Not Personalities

Posted: 12/02/2008
This Sunday, December 7, the people of Ghana will go to the polls to elect a new President and National Assembly. This will be the second transfer of power between presidents through the democratic process and the fifth national election held since Ghana ended military rule in 1992. Meanwhile, in the past eight years, Ghana has become one of Africa's success stories.

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Ghana: Presidential Candidate Condemns Tribalism

Posted: 11/26/2008
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called on Ghanaians to reject the politics of tribalism and ethnicity.

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Ghana: Presidential Candidates Face Off in Debate

Posted: 10/30/2008
Four Presidential candidates -Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Professor John Evans Atta Mills, National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Edward Mahama, Peoples National Convention (PNC) and Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, Convention People's Party (CPP), last night sent their numerous supporters into wild jubilations after displaying intelligence in answering the questions that were put to them at the much anticipated Presidential debate.

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Ghana: The Presidential Race Officially Begins

Posted: 10/17/2008
THE REAL battle for the December 7 general elections kicked off yesterday as the three main presidential candidates filed their presidential nomination forms.

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Ghana: The Steep Price of Getting Elected

Posted: 10/17/2008
Mawusi Awity and her husband were willing to jeopardize his military career for her dream of running for parliament in Ghana but there was another price to pay that she could not afford.

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Ghana: Pre-Election Violence Escalates

Posted: 09/09/2008
Following an upsurge of pre-election violence that has killed three people and injured many others in northern Ghana, experts fear hostilities will continue in the months leading to December presidential and legislative elections.

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Ghana: Kufour Attacks Opposition Ahead of Polls

Posted: 09/09/2008
THE CHIEF Executive Officer of the land, President John Agyekum Kufuor says it will be a mistake and a taboo for Ghanaians to vote the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) back to power. This is because the NDC, which is being led by Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, lacked the capacity and aptitude to prosecute sound economic policies that can help move the developmental agenda of Ghana forward.

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Ghana: Gunshots Disrupt Electioneering

Posted: 09/01/2008
There was pandemonium at the Jubilee Park in Tamale, yesterday, when unknown gunmen allegedly opened fire and succeeded in scuttling away supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who had turned up in their numbers to listen to Nana Akufo-Addo's running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The shots reportedly came from the direction of the Tamale Regional Hospital.

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West Africa: Ghana's Election Tests Democracy

Posted: 08/28/2008
Ghana's upcoming Election 2008 in December is a test for the West African region as it struggles for democratic consolidation.

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Ghana: IDEG Urges Stakeholders to Rid Register of Unwanted Names

Posted: 08/22/2008
The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), has urged all stakeholders, especially the Electoral Commission to purge the register of the names of dead, under-age and aliens from the voter register.

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Ghana: 2008 Elections is Not a Do Or Die Affair - Palmer-Buckle Stresses

Posted: 08/22/2008
The Metropolitan Catholic Archbishop of Accra, Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer- Buckle has added his voice to several eminent Ghanaians for the country to ensure a peaceful, united country before and after the December polls.

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Ghana: Pre-Election Violence And Irregularities Worries Watchdogs

Posted: 08/07/2008
Independent observers and civil society groups in Ghana say voter registration, the first major step towards landmark general elections in December, is being marred by violence and irregularities.

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Ghana: Akufo Addo Sets Tone for 08 Duel

Posted: 01/04/2008
The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Hon. Nana Akufo Addo, over the last few days dropped hints of what the campaign of 2008 was going to look like when he described his relationship with fellow presidential aspirants- Dr. Papa Kwesi Ndoum, and Professor Fiifi Mills with whom he attended the university of Ghana, and believed, could wage a campaign without insults and lies as good comrades.

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Ghana: Campaign Spending

Posted: 11/27/2007
An informal ADM survey in Accra shows that many people are not impressed and are actually put off by all the spending to attract the votes of only about two thousand five hundred people out of a national voter's register of eight million. Said a tailor at Abeka to ADM: This is just for their delegates' congress, can you imagine how much they will waste in the national elections ?"

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Ghana: Country Polarized, Says Presidential Candidate

Posted: 08/30/2007
Professor John Evans Atta Mills, National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, has said that should he become the president of Ghana, he would not "waste" his mandate on calling the predecessor government and his political opponents names.

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Ghana: Election Campaigns Resume After Celebrations

Posted: 03/12/2007
In the past week or two, perhaps in deference to the approaching penultimate day of the Ghana@50 celebrations, NPP presidential aspirants reined in their horses and all was quiet on the succession front.

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Ghana: Will Election be a Battle of the Vice-Presidents?

Posted: 01/16/2007
Conventional wisdom, which in this instance can be taken as a fait accompli is that Election 2008 is going to be a life and death fight between the NPP and NDC.

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Ghana: EC Postpones District Elections!

Posted: 09/08/2006
The Electoral Commission has deffered the district level and unit committee elections to Tuesday September 26 2006. This the commission said is to enable it have enough time to comply with an order of an Accra High Court.

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