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John Mahama John Dramani Mahama pronunciation (help·info) (/məˈhɑːmə/ ; born 29 November 1958) is the current President of Ghana. Mahama served as the Vice President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012, and took office as President on 24 July 2012 following the death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills. He was elected to serve his first term as President in the December 2012 election.
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- organized by Kwame Nkrumah & W.E.B. Dubois, the Congress met f… aimed at the economic, intellectual & political cooperation of… declared Ghana a republic and himself president for life in 19…
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Togo president 'wins re-election' Togo president 'wins re-election'. The president of Togo has won re-election in a disputed vote, according to electoral authorities. The Togolese president, Faure Gnassingbe, right, with the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills Photo: AFP/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI.
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- Born on November 20, 1957 in Ogbia, Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, is a politician who was the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He is a former zoologist who became Nigeria’s vice-president in the year 2007.
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Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo Mohamed (Somali: Maxamed Cabdulaahi Maxamed Farmaajo, Arabic: محمد عبد الله محمد‎‎; born 11 March 1962) is a Somali diplomat and politician who is the 9th and current President of Somalia.
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Ghana's president reshuffles ministers 19/01/2016. Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama has reshuffled his Ministers in accordance with Article 79(1) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana. The recent shake up in government is the last of the first term of President Mahama, as the West Africa country goes to the polls in November.
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OKOMFO ANOKYE THE GREAT AFRICAN PROPHET AND CO-FOUNDER OF ASHANTI KINGDOM Statue of Okomfo Anokyie at Kumasi. Okomfo Anokye is the greatest and celebrated mystic man in the history of Ghana. He was an Ashanti priest, statesman and lawgiver. He occupies a Merlin-like position in Ashanti history. A co-founder of the Empire of Ashanti in West Africa, he helped establish its constitution, laws, and customs.
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Kwame Nkrumah In September 2009, President John Atta Mills declared 21 September (the 100th anniversary of Kwame Nkrumah's birth) to be Founder's Day, a statutory holiday in Ghana to celebrate the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah.
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- Eric Amoateng is a politician and a former Member of Parliament in Ghana. He was arrested for drug trafficking in 2005 in the United States and jailed for drug trafficking. Kwame Amoateng Soccer, Athlete, Measured person, Football player, Person. Kwame Amoateng is a Swedish professional footballer of Ghanaian origin who currently plays for GAIS.
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- On October 18 2013, Kwame Anthony Appiah received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Edinburgh, in recognition of his “global influence on philosophy and politics,” alongside his friends John Kufuor, former President of Ghana, the historian Emma Rothschild, and the legal philosopher Jeremy Waldron.
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- On 6 March 1957 at 12 a.m Kwame Nkrumah declared Ghana's establishment and autonomy as the first Prime Minister of Ghana and on 1 July 1960, following the Ghanaian constitutional referendum, 1960 and Ghanaian presidential election, 1960 Nkrumah declared Ghana as a republic as the first President of Ghana.
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Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first prime minister and president of Ghana, having led it to independence from Britain in 1957.
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President of Ghana The 1992 constitution of Ghana divides powers among a Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces (President of Ghana), parliament (Parliament of Ghana), cabinet (Ministers of the Ghanaian Government), council of state (Ghanaian Council of State), and an independent judiciary (Judiciary of Ghana).
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- Executive authority resides with the president and the cabinet. In 2005 President Hosni Mubarak won a fifth consecutive six-year term with 88 percent of the vote in the country's first presidential election, which was marred by low voter turnout and charges of fraud.he National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) is a subsidiary of the Shura Council in consultative status. The NCHR continued to monitor government abuses of human rights, formally submitting citizen complaints to the government, and issued reports critical of the government.
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List of Mahama government ministers This is a listing of the ministers who serve in the National Democratic Congress government of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana starting most recently in 2013 and the original formation on 24 July 2012 following the death of John Atta Mills. 1 Ministers (January 2013 onwards) 1.1 Nominations for vetting. 1.2 List of ministers from January 2013.
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- The current President of Ghana is John Dramani Mahama, who leads the executive branch of the Government of Ghana since succeeding to the presidency of the Republic of Ghana on 24 July 2012 and inaugurated on 7 January 2013.
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President-Elect Buhari Tells Nigerians Not To Expect 'Miracles' President-Elect Buhari Tells Nigerians Not To Expect 'Miracles'. Nigerians have elected a former military strongman to be their next president. Muhammadu Buhari, who insists he's a changed man, says his first order of business will be to crush Boko Haram militants. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer. Nigeria defied predictions of widespread election violence and for the first time has elected an opposition challenger.
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- In the period of [African colonial independence] the beacon country from Africa was Ghana, first to achieve independence in 1957. The new nation's most influential figure was its prime minister, later president, Kwame Nkrumah. When Nkrumah was born in 1910, Ghana was still the Gold Coast, a British colony known for its plantations and for being the world's largest producer of cocoa.
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- Maritime Organisation for West and Central Africa (MOWCA) The MOWCA partners and especially AMSSA would like to send a great thanks to the long standing dynamic and honourable Secretary-General . . Prof. Magnus Teye ADDICO Republic of Ghana . . . for his incredible advances and dedicated service for the MOWCA member states and regions.
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Protests signal serious challenge to Gambia's 'billion-year' president Protests signal serious challenge to Gambia's 'billion-year' president. Yahya Jammeh’s iron grip on power contested by unprecedented popular uprising. Jammeh once infamously told a reporter that he would rule for ‘a billion years’. Pressure is mounting on Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh after a series of unprecedented opposition protests demanding an end to his 20-year rule. Citizens first took to the streets of Banjul in mid-April in the biggest act of public defiance against the president since he took power in a coup in 1996.
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Explore Barack Obama, Congratulations, and more! Hongera to John Magufuli who was inaugurated as Tanzania's fifth president on November This is the official kanga for the State House celebrating the occasion and Tanzania's newest president. It was produced by Nida Textiles in Dar es Salaam.
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Gambia: Why there's political turmoil in this small African nation He has declared a state of emergency; Adama Barrow set to be inaugurated. ( 1 CNN)Gambia's outgoing President Yahya Jammeh should have spent his last day in office Wednesday but he has refused to accept defeat in last month's election and hand over power to victor Adama Barrow, whose inauguration is due Thursday.
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Guinean forest-savanna mosaic  [show article only] hover over links in text for more info Ghana's growing economic prosperity and democratic political system has made it a regional power in West Africa. It is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Group of 24 (G24).
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Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa of West Africaâs Ashanti Empire Nana Yaa Asantewaa. Nana Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840 – 17 October 1921) was appointed queen mother of Ejisu of the Ashanti Empire—now part of modern-day Ghana—by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpese, the Ejisuhene “ruler of Ejisu”. In 1900 she led the Ashanti rebellion known as the War of the Golden Stool against British colonialism.
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- The head of the Economic Community of West African States is the President of the Commission, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo.æ He became the President on March 1, 2012.