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A day after Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani declared himself Niger’s new leader, a picture is emerging of a presidential guard commander who is little known to the public but has long
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(Bloomberg) Investors are betting on the incumbent, President Nana Akufo-Addo, to sort out Ghana’s fiscal challenges if he wins a second term in Monday’s election.
The New Patriotic Party’s Akufo-Addo will face off against his main opponent and predecessor, John Mahama, of the National Democratic Congress. The two parties have dominated Ghanaian politics since 1992.
The havoc wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic drove Ghana’s ratio of debt to gross domestic product to 71% in September, the highest in four years. Before the global health crisis, the West African nation was already under fiscal pressure due to the costs of cleaning up the banking sector and meeting energy-sector liabilities.
Investors, businesses look towards macro-economic stability in 2021
The completion of the December 7 general elections which has seen incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo re-elected for a second four year term in office, was supposed to be a cause for celebration for the business community which has tacitly supported the macro-economic policies of the incumbent administration , if not the government itself. But the political log jam confronting the country following the refusal of the opposition National Democratic Congress to accept the result, plus the real prospect of a hung Parliament is taking a lot of the shine off the elections. All this however will not have a major impact how their operating environment can be expected to evolve in 2021.