World

Ghana Elections, Second Round Sunday, Mills or Addo ?

by SOLARLIFE | December 27, 2008 at 02:59 am

230 views | 1 Recommendation | 1 comment

Borders closed for 2nd vote on sunday

Election report on sunday. Borders with Togo, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso are closed for Sunday's vote.

Voice of America: Fair elections

Presidential candidates in Ghana wrapped-up their campaigning Friday ahead of Sunday's run-off election to succeed out-going President John Kufuor.

Akufo-Addo or Prof. Atta-Mills both close to 49% first round

Akufo-Addo ruling party candidate
The ruling party candidate stays for 5% economci growth since years
educated in england and france he understands as ancient attorny-general
to keep the country going, age 64 years.

Prof Atta-Mills Opposition candidate
The candidate for social change, the 64 years old law professor
would bring in more middle class thinking.

Economy Ghana

Africa's second largest producer of gold and the world's second
biggest exporter of cocoa. Middle class starts to buy Homes

Electricity, power ruptures

1500 MW installed, plans to upgrade to 5000 MW for Bauxite to Aluminium transformation
Rural electrification: "Electronet Lighting Africa" with village on-site power on
the planning board by local coop Bluewave eng. The demand for lighting is high.
Interrupting power distributed in switching area by area

Business culture

High international level, Westcoast style (can develop to california of Africa)
Business language: English

Ghana's Oil discovery 2010

150 000 barrel/day forecasted for 2010 with recent discovered oil fields

Observers elections
First round elections ended with no one reaching the 50% majority.
All observers speak about fair elections. Second round present
Economic Community of West Africa States, the Pan-African Parliament,
the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers, the European Union,
and the U.S.-based Carter Center.