Ghana politics and election news

Former President John  Mahama has appealed to members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to desist from insulting the person of the party’s founder - ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, even if they disagree with some of his comments.

30-year-old Bogolo Joy Kenewendo is Botswana’s new Minister of Investment, Trade, and Industry.

Ex-President John Mahama says the National Democratic Congress, does not have any intention to remove the “super incompetent” Akufo-Addo administration through coup.

Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini says President Akufo-Addo disappointed Ghanaians in his address to the nation on the Ghana-US military Agreement.

Opposition NDC is currently embarking on its 7th Unity Walk in the Upper West Regional capital WA.

President Akufo-Addo on April 5, 2018, broke his silence on the disputed military agreement between Ghana and the United States of America.

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament,  says President Akufo-Addo’s national address on the Ghana-US Defence Deal on Thursday evening was insulting to Ghanaians.

Opposition candidate Julius Maada Bio has won a narrow victory in a run-off election to become Sierra Leone’s next president, according to official results by the country’s electoral body.

President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has said he is confident all his campaign promises will be fulfilled by the end of his first term in office as President.

Former President John Mahama has refuted allegations that he was part of a plot to rig the just ended Presidential Run-off election in favour opposition leader Julius Maada Bio.

Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, says President Akufo-Addo has reduced the presidency to a family and friends affair to the extent of appointing ex-girlfriends to high positions in Ghana.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected with 97 percent of votes, after the late March election in which his only challenger was a supporter of his administration.

The Editor in Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper Malik Kweku Baako Jnr has intercepted a letter, part of which suggests ex-president John Mahama gave approval for Ghana to be used as a base for a US military operation that will protect “US citizens and facilities in the sub-region.”

The Southern African nation of Botswana has sworn-in its new president in the person of Mokgweetsi Masisi. The 55-year-old becomes the country’s 5th president.

The candidate of the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), Julius Maada Bio, blamed the presence of security forces at polling stations for the low turnout during the second round of a presidential election on Saturday.