GHANA IS DOING WELL?

Ghana by Eli Shany אלי שני

Ghana is having elections.

Ghana is doing well.

Its economy is growing at nearly 10 % a year.

It has oil, cocoa and gold.

The World Bank now describes Ghana as a 'middle-income country'.

The mortality rate for children below the age of 5 has almost halved in the past 20 years.

76 % of its children go through primary school.

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Politics in Ghana is partly tribal.

Politics in Ghana is partly about the struggle between the USA and China for Africa's mineral wealth.

The present government is led by President John Atta Mills, of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

The NDC is centre-left, believing in a strong role for the state in running the economy and managing Ghana's new oil wealth

The opposition is led by Nana Akufo-Addo, of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The NPP is centre-right, believing in the free market. The NPP's last time in government ended with a huge budget deficit.

The NPP has a small lead in the polls.

The NDC has been criticised for arranging a $3 billion loan from the China Development Bank in return for oil from the Ghana National Petroleum Corp.

The state electricity company has failed to collect debts of more than $200 million, much of it owed by multinational companies.

The NDC tends to be supported by the Ewe tribes, while the NPP tends to be supported by the Ashanti. Both tribal groups are mainly Christian.

The Dagomba in the north are Islamic.

So far, Ghana has largely avoided tribal and religious conflict.

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THE USA IN GHANA AND NIGERIA

Ghana - by Wieland Koerbel

"The US Africa Command is now at war on the continent of Africa.

"And not surprising, the war is about oil." (AFRICOM Goes To War In Africa -m)

Ghana made its first big oil find off the coast in 2007, and turned on the taps in 2011.

Reportedly, Mossad and the CIA are very active in oil-rich Ghana and Nigeria.


There is a fear that Ghana could become a failed state, just like Nigeria.

Politicians in both Nigeria and Ghana have their armed militias.

The CIA used militias to get control of the oil in Libya.

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On 28 January 2012, at modernghana.com, Lord Aikins Adusei has written:

"Azorka Boys and Bamba Boys: the coming Boko Haram in Ghana?"

According to Adusei:

1. Nigeria's former head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo predicted that Nigeria would be counted among the 'ten leading nations in the world by the end of the (20th) century.'

But, Nigeria has become a failed state.

2. Professor Wole Soyinka, in a BBC interview, described the Boko Haram terrorist group as people from the Islamic madrassas, armed and employed by the elite in the north.

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In November 2011 some top people, including Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, were arrested after it was discovered that they had met and supported Boko Haram.

In January 2012 President Goodluck Jonathan announced that members of his own government were supporters and sympathisers of the Boko Haram terror group.

3. In the south of Nigeria, politicians also have their armed militias.

These militias steal ballot boxes and carry out assassinations.

The Area Boys attack their political opponents, rob oil tankers, and kidnap oil workers for ransom.

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4. In Ghana, the ruling NDC have their Azorka Boys.

The opposition NPP have their Bamba Boys.

The Azorka Boys and Bamba Boys are 'violent and lawless thugs' working for certain politicians.

During elections they are supplied with weapons.

Brig. Gen. Robert Ferrell, U.S. Africa Command C4 director; Maj. Gen. David R. Hogg, U.S. Army Africa Commander; and Brig. Gen. Joseph Searyoh, director general of Defense Information Communication Systems, Ghana Armed Forces

5. Ghana's problems include:

Corrupt politicians, civil servants, judges and police.

Extreme poverty and inequality in the northern part of Ghana.

Politics based on tribe and religion.

A failing educational system.

Massive unemployment.

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