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| | Ghana (08/05) |
 | | Ghana's government returned to civilian authority under the Second Republic in October 1969 after a parliamentary election in which the Progress Party, led by Kofi A. Busia, won 105 of the 140 seats. | | | On July 1, 1960, a new constitution was adopted, changing Ghana from a parliamentary system with a prime minister to a republican form of government headed by a powerful president. | | | Ghanas stated goals are to accelerate economic growth, improve the quality of life for all Ghanaians, and reduce poverty through macroeconomic stability, higher private investment, broad-based social and rural development, as well as direct poverty-alleviation efforts. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2860.htm
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| | Ghana (03/05) |
| | The December 2000 elections ushered in the first democratic presidential change of power in Ghana's history when John A. Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) defeated the NDC's John Atta Mills--who was Rawling's Vice President and hand-picked successor. | | | Ghana stated goals are to accelerate economic growth, improve the quality of life for all Ghanaians, and reduce poverty through macroeconomic stability, higher private investment, broad-based social and rural development, as well as direct poverty-alleviation efforts. | | | Ghana was the first country in the world to accept Peace Corps volunteers, and the program remains one of the largest. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2860.htm
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| | Freedom in the World 1998-99: Ghana |
| | Ghanas 200-member legislature, elected on a single-member district system, is controlled by the NDC, which holds 133 seats. | | | Ghanas political class appeared focused on the 2000 presidential elections set to mark President Jerry Rawlings departure from office after nearly two decades in power. | | | However, the elections were also marked by the ruling partys extensive use of state media and patronage to support incumbents. |
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http://www.freedomhouse.org/survey99/country/ghana.html
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| | Global Initiative to Enfranchise People with Disabilities: Publications - www.ifes.org |
| | Mercy Apoe, a member of the Ghana Association of the Blind from the Northern Region, noted that her presence at the polling stations was at first met with surprise, then acceptance. | | | It was also noted, by Humphrey Akaba of the Ghana Association of the Deaf, that due to the lack of information, deaf citizens often did not understand the issues involved in the election, and were not sure why they needed to register. | | | Kangah also noted that the election law provides for voters with disabilities who require assistance to "be assisted by a person of his or her own choice" and that voters "who are unable to go to the polling station personally can exercise their franchise by appointing a proxy…" Mr. |
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http://electionaccess.org/publications/briefings/01_05_Ghana.htm
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| | Ghana |
| | Ghana is a constitutional republic dominated by a strong presidency. | | | The Council also listed 23 `genuine Troxovi shrines' in Ghana, describing them as educational institutions and as part of the "Afrikania religion." These claims were widely refuted by chiefs, the press, and NGO's. | | | These elections were held on a nonpartisan basis, as called for in the 1992 Constitution. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/af/index.cfm?docid=803
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| | Ghana (06/05) |
| | Ghana's government returned to civilian authority under the Second Republic in October 1969 after a parliamentary election in which the Progress Party, led by Kofi A. Busia, won 105 of the 140 seats. | | | On July 1, 1960, a new constitution was adopted, changing Ghana from a parliamentary system with a prime minister to a republican form of government headed by a powerful president. | | | Ghanas stated goals are to accelerate economic growth, improve the quality of life for all Ghanaians, and reduce poverty through macroeconomic stability, higher private investment, broad-based social and rural development, as well as direct poverty-alleviation efforts. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2860.htm
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| | Ghana Physical |
| | Ghana is a constitutional democracy and gained its independence from the United Kingdom on March 6, 1957 | | | Through efforts in the 1990's, Ghana made gradual but steady progress rebuilding its economy. | | | Ghana has a tropical climate that is warm and relatively dry along the southeast coast, hot and humid in the southwest, and hot and dry in the north. |
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http://www.elca.org/countrypackets/ghana/country-print.html
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| | Graphic Ghana - News |
| | Addressing a press conference in Lomé at the end of a two-day diplomatic mission to Togo,President Mamadou Tandja said the ECOWAS high-powered delegation which included President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali was mainly focused on the restoration of Togo back to the normalcy of respect for the constitutional order and legality. | | | For example, said the ECOWAS Chairman there was the imperative necessity to involve all political parties in the revision of a viable and credible voters electoral list in order to ensure free,fair,transparent elections. | | | The press conference was held in the presence of the Interim President of Togo El Hajj Abass Bonfoh, and Prime Minister Koffi Sama.Others present included Togo's Foreign Affairs Minister Kokou Tozoun, Information Minister, Pitang Tchalla, and Professor Charles Kondi Agba, Minister for High Education. |
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http://www.graphicghana.info/article.asp?artid=4630
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| | Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles |
| | The strength of this was underlined in December 2000 when, for the first in its history, Ghana witnessed the election of an opposition party. | | | The first case of HIV/AIDS reported in Ghana was in 1986. | | | Ghanaâs first post-independence ruler, Kwame Nkrumah, was the pioneer of âAfrican socialismâ and advocated the application of European socialism, modified to take account of the circumstances of Africa. |
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http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019672601848
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| | People's Daily Online -- Politically stable Ghana hold elections, hoping for economic development |
| | The competition for presidency in Ghana is widely expected to be between two candidates, the incumbent and his longtime rival, or President John Agyekum Kufuor from the ruling New Patriotic Party and John Evans Atta Mills from the National Democratic Convention (NDC). | | | Kufuor came to the power in the elections in 2000, defeating in a runoff with Mills, who is the successor of Jerry Rawlings that had ruled the country for 19 years after a coup in 1981 and stepped down according to constitution. | | | A new constitution, restoring multiparty politics, was approved in 1992. |
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http://english1.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/08/eng20041208_166521.html
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| | Concluding Observations/Comments - Ghana |
| | It also notes that the State party, through a multisectoral committee, in 1995, engaged in a comprehensive law reform process to ensure full compatibility between national laws and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. | | | Furthermore, the Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption of 1993. | | | While taking note of the measures undertaken in the field of law reform, including the intention to adopt a Children's Act, the Committee notes with concern that currently several provisions of the law are incompatible with the provisions and principles of the Convention, especially in the fields of civil rights, adoption and juvenile justice. |
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http://www.law.wits.ac.za/humanrts/crc/ghana1997.html
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| | CRC/C/3/Add.39 - State Party Report - Ghana |
| | The Ghana National Commission on Children was constituted by statute in 1979 (AFRC Decree 66). | | | After the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Ghana National Commission on Children became the main coordinating body, both for publicizing the Convention, as well as facilitating the processes needed to give effect to the provisions of the Convention. | | | The establishment of the Ghana National Commission on Children (GNCC) in 1979 constituted the main governmental agency responsible for advocacy on behalf of children and coordinating the activities of child-related agencies in respect of services to promote child welfare. |
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http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord1997/documentation/tbodies/crc-c-3-add39.htm
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| | USAfrica Elections |
| | With a day to go before the December 7, 2000 general elections in Ghana, Monday's clash between jittery police and frustrated opposition protestors, and the controversial and highly charged issue of voter identification, have again fanned the flames of political tension. | | | Comparatively young, at 53, the future of Jerry Rawlings is of concern to many in Ghana who see Thursday's election as the end of an era, but not necessarily the end of Rawlings, and are uneasy about the implications. | | | The presidential and parliamentary polls in Ghana this week are likely to turn into a vote on the Rawlings' legacy. |
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http://www.usafricaonline.com/ghana_electionsy2k.html
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| | CNN.com - Polls close in Ghana elections - December 7, 2000 |
| | ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- With the sun beating down, long lines of laughing, jostling voters formed at ballot stations in presidential elections Thursday that mark the end of an era for this West African nation. | | | Ghana has been hit in recent years by plummeting international prices for the country's major exports, cocoa and gold, and by oil price hikes. | | | Ghana, which has experienced five military regimes since independence from Britain in 1957, has evolved under Rawlings, its longest-serving leader, blossoming into a multiparty nation with a flourishing independent press. |
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http://cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/12/07/ghana.elections.ap/index.html
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| | Ghana - Introduction |
| | By early 1995, the case was before the Supreme Court of Ghana. | | | Rawlings's visit was the first to the United States by a Ghanaian head of state in at least thirty years. | | | In 1960 a new constitution created the Republic of Ghana, the same year that Nkrumah was elected president. |
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http://countrystudies.us/ghana/3.htm
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| | Ghana's Opposition Wins Elections |
| | This will be Ghana's third successful attempt at holding presidential and parliamentary elections. | | | If the Ghanaian run-off election succeeds, Ghana would be joining the privileged club of a few African countries - Senegal and South Africa - where the idea of competitive electoral politics is becoming gradually institutionalized. | | | NPP won 97 seats in parliament while the ruling party won 93. |
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http://www.theperspective.org/ghana.html
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| | ABC News: Ghana a Model for African Elections |
| | Kufuor's election in 2000 marked the first peaceful transition of power in Ghana since it gained independence from Britain in 1957. | | | Strong Turnout in Ghana's Presidential Vote Marks Steadying of Africa's Older Democracies | | | Ghana was the first former colony in Africa to win independence, igniting a fierce independence movement that swept the continent in the early 1960s. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=308844&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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| | Ghana |
| | Ghana is a constitutional republic with a strong presidency and a unicameral 200-seat Parliament; multiparty elections have been held every 4 years since the country returned to constitutional rule in 1992. | | | The Constitution provides citizens with the right to change their government, and citizens exercised this right through a democratic process in presidential and parliamentary elections held in December 2000, which despite a few incidents of intimidation and election fraud, domestic and international observers judged to be generally free and fair. | | | In December 2000, six opposition parties and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) contested presidential and parliamentary elections, which despite a few incidents of intimidation and election fraud, domestic and international observers judged generally free and fair. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8379.htm
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| | Ghana |
| | In the parliamentary elections held on December 29,1992, the Progressive Alliance made up of the National Democratic Congress, the National Convention Party and the Egle Party won 198 seats out of a total of 200, within the Alliance the NDC won 189 seats, the NCP had 8, the Egle Party 2, and Independents 2. | | | He became prominent as a leader of West African organizations in London and was invited to return to Ghana as general secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention. | | | Ghana spearheaded the political advancement of Africa and Dr. Nkrumah laid the foundations for the unity later expressed in the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). |
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http://pirate.shu.edu/~adjeisam/favorite.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - Ghana - Developing Democratic Institutions Ghanaian Information Resource |
| | It presented itself as the "constitutional" party, the objectives of which are to ensure that constitutional rule is established in Ghana and that the private sector becomes the engine of growth and development. | | | The minor opposition parties of the Nkrumahist tradition, which had boycotted dialogue with the NDC government, also managed after a long period of internal bickering to put their houses in order in anticipation of the 1996 presidential and parliamentary elections. | | | The institutions created were the National Commission on Civic Education, the National Electoral Commission, the District Assemblies Common Fund, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, the Minerals Commission, the Forestry Commission, the Fisheries Commission, the National Council for Higher Education, and the National Media Commission. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/ghana/ghana127.html
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| | New Mexico Delegation to the 2004 Republican National Convention Among the Most Diverse in Party History |
| | NEW YORK, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Mexico delegation to the 2004 Republican National Convention is among the most diverse in the nation, with 43 percent of its delegation minorities. | | | Under his leadership, the party has grown significantly and will welcome its most diverse delegation ever to the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. | | | This is his first time as a delegate to a Republican National Convention. |
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http://www.forrelease.com/D20040805/dcth048.P2.08052004145217.28716.html
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| | Ghana Life |
| | abral Blay-Amihere, president of the West Africa Journalists Association, is a man accorded great respect and admiration throughout Africa for his relentless work toward a free press in Ghana and the rest of the continent. | | | On 1st July,1960 Ghana became a republic with Kwame Nkrumah as its first President. | | | Ghana has taken a lead role in supporting the African Crisis Response Initiative, and is also in the forefront of African countries that have made positive steps toward consolidating democracy. |
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http://www.library.yale.edu/~fboateng/fbhp.htm
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| | Citizens With Disabilities Observe Ghana's National Elections |
| | Following the December 28 run-off elections, representatives from the ADD and FODA will meet with the Ghanaian Electoral Commission to suggest recommendations on improving access to the disabled in the election process. | | | Following the training, each participant was fully accredited as a "domestic election observer" by the Ghanaian Electoral Commission. | | | Among the election observers were members of the Ghana Association of the Blind, the Ghana National Association of the Deaf, the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled, and key members of the ADD and FODA network. |
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http://electionaccess.org/publications/news/00_12_26_Ghana_Release.htm
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| | GRi Election Information |
| | The leader of the United Ghana Movement (UGM), Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby and his running mate were also present. | | | They were the Democratic People's Party (DPP), Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere (EGLE) Party, Ghana Democratic Republican Party (GDRP), Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), People's National Convention (PNC), People's Convention Party (PCP), National Democratic Congress (NDC), New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Convention Party (NCP). | | | The lifting of this ban in 1990 to usher in the Fourth Republic of Ghana brought more than a sigh of relief to all Ghanaians. |
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http://www.ghanareview.com/Elect2000.html
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| | GRi Feature |
| | Ghana could only move forward now, and the National Democratic Congress has just received the requisite shot in the arm to ensure just this. | | | In its new operational philosophy, A Social Democratic Agenda for Ghana", the National Democratic Congress (NDC) makes it very clear that it is a social democratic party committed to equality and the egalitarian treatment of all persons, with respect to their political, economic, social, cultural and religious relations in a multi- party environment. | | | This move is very relevant now since Ghana's geo-political situation and the economic realities of the times also make it imperative that we push the cause of West African sub-regional integration as hard as possible and in line with the progressive operationalisation of the African Union. |
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http://www.mclglobal.com/Features/27e3f.html
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Ghana |
| | Ghana struggles to accommodate returning nationals who worked in the cocoa plantations and escaped rebel fighting in Cote d'Ivoire | | | Ghana opted for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) program in 2002. | | | Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gh.html
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| | Elections in Ghana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ghana elects on national level a head of state - the | | | Elections in Ghana gives information on election and election results in Ghana. | | | An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Ghana
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| | ABC News: Ghana's President Holds Lead in Vote |
| | An unidentfied man looks at election news a day after general elections in Accra, Ghana, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004. | | | Ghana's present President, John Kufuor, seeking re-election, is curently leading his main opponent, John Atta Mills, of the National Democratic Congress or NDC, after partial counting of the polled votes. | | | "The elections were orderly and peacefully conducted and every member of our delegation would like to congratulate the people of Ghana," Desomond Luke, chairman of the 19-member team from the Economic Community of West African States, told reporters in the capital, Accra. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=315213
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