ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — John Mahama was sworn in as president of Ghana for a third time Tuesday against the backdrop of the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation. Thousands of Ghanaians from all ...

Church leaders weigh competency and faith background as the West African nation heads to the polls. Update (Dec. 9): Ghanaians hoping to elect their country’s first Muslim president will have to wait ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “They asked, ‘Did your President actually write this?’” Mahama tells TIME in his presidential office within Accra’s Jubilee House.

ACCRA, Ghana — Ghana’s vice president and ruling party candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, conceded defeat Sunday to opposition candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama in the West African nation’s ...

Ghana President John Mahama’s return to power has been accompanied by a wave of ministerial and state-owned enterprise appointments that reflect a calculated blend of seasoned political figures and ...

In Ghana, celebrations broke out in the streets as former president and opposition candidate John Dramani Mahama declared victory in this weekend’s presidential election. The ruling party’s candidate, ...

Thousands of jubilant citizens dressed in the red, white, green, and black colours of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) thronged Ghana‘s capital Accra to welcome President John Mahama. They waved ...

A Ghanaian TikToker has been jailed for one year after admitting to publishing false claims that President John Mahama ...

Ghana’s bodies of water are being poisoned by mercury and cyanide. Babies are being born with severe health conditions. And now a chorus of voices is demanding the president invoke emergency powers to ...

Ghanaians voting on Saturday are confronted with a choice familiar to Americans: Return a one-term former president to office, or promote the vice president, at a time when anger over the economy is ...

John Dramani Mahama, Ghana’s incoming president, has won a chance to rewrite his legacy. He was voted out of office in 2016 by what was then the highest margin in the post-independence history of the ...