President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Banjul, The Gambia, this morning to meet with the country’s President, Yahya Jammeh, who lost the presidential election penultimate week. The Nigerian leader, who arrived together with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of…
ACCRA — Longtime Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo has won the presidency on his third attempt, defeating incumbent President John Mahama. Mahama acted just before the electoral commission officially announced Akufo-Addo as the winner of…
Voters in Ghana are awaiting official results from Wednesday’s election to choose the country’s next president and parliament. Ghana’s electoral commission is releasing provisional results from the presidential poll one constituency at a time over…
Vote-counting has begun in the West African nation of Ghana, after polls to choose the country’s next president and parliament. VOA’s Peter Clottey, reporting from Ghana’s capital of Accra, reports polls closed in Ghana at…
ACCRA — Voters in Ghana went to the polls Wednesday as the West African nation held elections for a new parliament and president. The presidential race is seen as a close contest between incumbent John…
President Mahama, running for a second term this Wednesday, is set to slug it out with his old opponent, opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo. The outcome as to whether Mahama will remain in Ghana’s Flagstaff House,…