President John Dramani Mahama has touched down in the capital city of The Gambia, Banjul to help mediate in a post-election impasse between incumbent Yahya Jammeh and President-elect Adama Barrow.
The trip to Gambia is President Mahama's first foreign trip since losing Ghana's general elections to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo-Addo last Friday.
The vote, which saw opposition candidate Nana Akufo-Addo defeat President John Mahama, was only the second time an incumbent leader had been ousted in multiparty elections in West Africa.
El-Rufai was in Ghana to observe the elections as part of a delegation from the United States’s National Democratic Institute.
As Charlotte Osei, chairwoman of Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC), prepared to release the official results on 10 December, El-Rufai said that Ghana had set a “gold standard” for elections.
Legal reforms
The presidential transition process will face several challenges, a governance fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Professor Ransford Gyampoh has said.
Prof. Gyampoh explained that, the office of Administrator General, which is critical to overseeing the transition process, is in dire need of resources to execute its mandate under the amended Presidential Transitional Act.
After peaceful and successful elections, I woke up on a bright Sunday morning to the #CNNGetItRight hashtag.
Like many Ghanaians, I have been worried about the way some international media organizations always portray Africa in a negative manner. Some even go to the extent of telling stories that are untrue. The article on the CNN website claimed that Ghanaians had elections in 1998 (which is false).
Ghanaians have taken the American news network CNN to task over a report that erroneously described the country as a place where "Ghanians [sic] struggle to obtain food and day-to-day services. Rolling blackouts are common and citizens often stand in long line to obtain products."
The hashtag #CNNGetItRight trended over the weekend after football journalist Gary Al-Smith noted the story and tweeted "I didn't know Ghanaians 'stand in long lines to obtain products' or 'struggle to obtain food'. And I live there."
We're expecting the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to arrive in The Gambia today in an attempt to persuade President Yahya Jammeh to step down after he lost the election.
Mr Buhari is expected to be joined by Liberian leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Sierra Leone's Ernest Bai Koroma and Ghana's John Mahama, who himself lost an election last week and has said he will step down as president next month.
After initially accepting defeat, at the end of last week he claimed he no longer accepted the result and asked for a new poll run by a "Godfearing" electoral commission.
Ghana's President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo says he will set up a special team to investigate corruption but said it would not be a "witch-hunt".
He said his government would distance itself by allowing an independent prosecutor to investigate cases and make its own decisions.
Mr Akufo-Addo defeated incumbent John Dramani Mahama in last week's election.
Mr Mahama has been accused of not tackling a series of corruption scandals.
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President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated his appeal to leaders of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to call their members to order, following reports of attacks on some citizens and state properties.
The Police earlier said they had received reports nationwide that some NPP supporters “are attacking supporters of NDC in various parts of the country.”
The President on Sunday subsequently directed the security agencies to deploy and arrest any person caught in such acts.
Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko is a brilliant fight, make no mistake of that. However, it is not the fight and that is because Fury is not in one of the corners
There is a dreadful inconvenient truth attached to the far reaches of the glorious halo currently engulfing the fight at Wembley Stadium between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko next April and it is called Tyson Fury.
The planned fight could generate nearly fifty million pounds and could also change the very landscape of boxing for a long, long time.
