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	Welcome to the Republic of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Agyekum Kufuor was born on December 8, 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana.
		Kufuor was nominated by 1034 out of 2000 delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) drawn from all the 200 Constituencies of the Country to run for the President of Ghana on December 10, 1996.
		J.A. Kufuor won the presidential elections in Dec. 2000 and was sworn in as president on January 7 2001.
	www.ghana.gov.gh /governing/executive/index.php (993 words)

	President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana
		John Agyekum Kufuor was subsequently confirmed, in accord with Oxford traditions, with the Master's degree by the University.
		John Kufuor was a member of the 1968-69 and the 1979 Constituent Assemblies that drafted the Constitutions of the Second and Third Republics respectively.
		John Agyekum Kufuor, however, resigned within seven months of acceptance of the position after having satisfied himself that the PNDC Government was not the national Government that it promised to be.
	www.joinafrica.com /africa_of_the_week/johnkufuor.htm (1029 words)

	Rawlings, Jerry John - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Jerry John Rawlings, born in 1947, president of Ghana (1982-2000).
		The NPP edged Rawlings’s party in legislative elections, and NPP candidate John Kufuor defeated Rawlings’s vice president in the vote for president.
		Kufuor was sworn in as president in January 2001, the first time since Ghana’s independence that power changed hands peacefully and democratically.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761584105__1/Rawlings_Jerry_John.html (434 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Ghana's president accepts re-election
		Kufuor told Ghanaians he hoped to spark greater economic growth and vowed to fight corruption with "all weapons" in his next four years.
		Kufuor rode his popularity for maintaining peace and democratic gains and for nudging along the economy of the world's No. 2 cocoa producer and leading gold producer.
		Kufuor, who has been active in peace negotiations for nearby Liberia and Ivory Coast, urged leaders in a region where coups are still common to advance democratic practices in their own nations.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2004/12/10/ghanas_president_accepts_re_election (524 words)

	PRESIDENTIAL MILESTONES
		CLANCY: President John Kufuor of Ghana, who swept into power earlier this year in a vote many saw as a mandate for change, says a part of that change will be ensuring the private sector can work without political constraints.
		JOHN KUFUOR, GHANAIAN PRESIDENT Of course I am also very concerned about the state of the economy for which I have got an economic team working feverishly to prepare budgets that should come out in about a month's time.
		Kufuor, your arrival in power is seen by many Ghanaians as the arrival at long last of democracy and a more open society.
	prempeh.org /points/milestones6.html (891 words)

	Kufuor John Agyekum - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Kufuor, John Agyekum (1938-), Ghanaian politician, President of Ghana (2001-).
		NPP leader John Kufuor won the presidential elections, defeating...
		By 1983 the economy had been severely disrupted by Rawlings’s hostility to the Lebanese merchant community (half of whom left the country), and by...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Kufuor_John_Agyekum.html (101 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Ghana election profile: John Kufuor
		John Agyekum Kufuor, 61, has succeeded in second shot at the presidency after losing to outgoing President Jerry Rawlings in 1996.
		Since his nomination as the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) candidate two years ago, Mr Kufuor has beaten paths into the remote countryside, pressing the flesh of folks and drinking from their water-pots in an effort to break the NDC's rural stranglehold and reverse his party's urban/bourgeois image.
		Mr Kufuor studied law at Oxford University and became an MP and Deputy Foreign Minister in 1969 at the age of 30.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1048624.stm (283 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Kufuor re-elected president of Ghana, turnout tops 80 percent
		Kufuor, an Oxford-educated lawyer who Ghanaians affectionately call "the Gentle Giant," received 52.75 percent of the vote in Tuesday's election with results from 225 of 230 legislative districts tallied, Election Commission Chairman Kwadwo Afari-Gyan said late Thursday.
		Kufuor, first elected in 2000, rode high on his popularity for maintaining peace and democratic gains and for nudging along the economy of the world's No. 2 cocoa producer and one of the leading gold producers.
		Kufuor's party, the New Patriotic Party, also was poised to take a majority of the 230 seats in parliament.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041209-1615-ghana-elections.html (500 words)

	Who is Dr Nkrumah’s natural successor - John Kufuor or Atta Mills? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John A. Kufuor is gradually emerging as the true successor of late President Nkrumah.
		It is true that due to the way the world economy is structured, the type of free education that we and our parents enjoyed can never be repeated, but the conditions can be created to ease the suffering on the poor to enable them send their children to school.
		As our compatriots make the choice between Professor Atta Mills and President John Kufuor on December 7 2004, they should be made aware that they are not only voting for a party to rule for 4 years, but they will be making a very important choice regarding our very existence as a nation state.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=71248&comment=1281647 (1060 words)

	John Agyekum Kufuor, Schema-Root news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President John Agyekum Kufuor, standing in a castle built by the Portuguese and used in part to facilitate slavery, and partly to sustain commerce,...
		John Agyekum Kufuor, the distinguished current Chairman of the African Union, and the good Ghanaian public to have a clear picture of the current situation...
		The parade, presided over by the president of Ghana, His Excellency John Kufuor, was honoured by the presence of 24 African heads of state.
	schema-root.org /region/africa/west_africa/ghana/government/officials/john_kufuor (1040 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Kufuor: Ghana's gentle giant
		For John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor, becoming the president of Ghana has been a long-held ambition, comparable to that of a barefoot child who kicks a rotten orange about in the backyard and sees himself as a soccer star - say, George Weah or Abedi Pele.
		Mr Kufuor became a member of parliament, and deputy foreign minister at the age of 30 in the government of Prime Minister Kofi Busia, which lasted just two and a half years.
		Mr Kufuor is married to Theresa, a nurse.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1104166.stm (617 words)

	CNN.com
		John Kufuor took the oath of office as Ghana's president, marking the first transfer of power in the country from one elected government to another.
		Kufuor's inauguration was the beginning of the first real test of Ghana's young democracy.
		President John Kufuor gave us a tour of the property, and then sat down for a conversation about a young democracy, its economy, and some of the challenges that lie ahead.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0301/11/i_if.01.html (3498 words)

	CNN.com - Kufuor named Ghana presidential winner - December 29, 2000
		Kufuor pledged to work with Ghana's private sector during his term to create the wealth needed for a healthy Ghana.
		Kufuor and Mills were forced into a runoff when neither candidate could muster 50 percent of the vote in the December 7 general election.
		Kufuor's New Patriotic Party broke Rawlings' National Democratic Party's (NDP) hold on the legislature in the December 7 election, taking 99 of parliaments' 200 seats to 92 for the NDP.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/12/30/ghana.elex.02/index.html (560 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Ghana opposition complains of harassment during election
		Kufuor won a second and final four-year mandate Thursday after taking more than half the votes in the first round.
		His main rival John Atta Mills, who also lost to Kufuor in a runoff in 2000, said he was worried members of the National Democratic Congress party had been harassed during parliamentary elections held alongside the presidential vote.
		Kufuor, a tall, Oxford-educated lawyer known as the "gentle giant," who oversaw four years of economic stability in his first term, said he believed the election had been fair.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041210-0734-ghana-election.html (438 words)

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		Kufuor, who took over from Rawlings in 2001 in Ghana's first peaceful transition of power since independence, alleged Rawlings was planning a repeat of the military coup in 1981 which swept him to office.
		Kufuor did not name the country where he alleged Rawlings had travelled to raise funds.
		Atta-Mills and Kufuor were in Ghana's Ashanti region for a by-election in the Offinso-South constituency.
	today.reuters.com /News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L2483370 (375 words)

	allAfrica.com: From allAfrica's Reporters
		John Agyekum Kufuor has been sworn in as the fourth president of Ghana in a colourful ceremony attended by four west African heads of state and the deputy president of South Africa, as well as the outgoing Ghanaian leader, Jerry Rawlings.
		The new president of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor, has praised the women of Ghana and promised to create a new ministry of women’s affairs, which will also be a cabinet position.
		Today, President John Agyekum Kufuor, the fourth president of the Republic of Ghana, spoke at Independence Square, Accra, after he and the vice president, Alhaji Aliu Mahma were sworn in on the forecourt outside Parliament House.
	allafrica.com /inhouse/bydate/?n=61 (1121 words)

	John Kufuor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Agyekum Kufuor (born December 8, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Kufuor was recently re-elected in presidential and parliamentary elections held on December 7 2004 with 52.45% of the popular vote, EHandler: no quick summary.
		He has also allowed for a great deal of media freedom in Ghana.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_kufuor.htm (544 words)

	ipedia.com: John Kufuor Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President George W. Bush during a visit to the USA in 2001]] John Agyekum Kufuor is the current president of Ghana.
		John Agyekum Kufuor (born December 8, 1938) is the current president of Ghana.
		He ran for election in 2000 and won, succeeding Jerry Rawlings and having perhaps the first peaceful transition of power in Ghana since the country's independence was declared.
	www.ipedia.com /john_kufuor.html (206 words)

	Kufuor - Webled.com
		[ President Kufuor is on a three-day state visit to renew the historic ]...
		[ Victor Kofi Kufuor, Son to The President of the Republic of Ghana and ]...
		[ Edward Agyekum Kufuor, Son to The President of the Republic of Ghana ]...
	www.webled.com /Kufuor.htm (577 words)

	Rawlings denies Ghana coup plot, brought to you by African News Dimension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kufuor told a by-election rally last weekend that Rawlings had asked an unnamed oil-rich country for money.
		He described it as a sign that Kufuor was panicking and said he had had to bite his lip when he heard it.
		BBC reported that,it was no surprise that Rawlings used the occasion to launch a tirade against the current government which he accused of being corrupt and had reversed the progress made when he had been in power.
	westafrica.andnetwork.com /index?service=direct/1/Home/recent.fullStory&sp=l54881 (298 words)

	Browse Articles By Country \| Africa Confidential, Inside information for over 40 years
		The election of President John Kufuor to the Chairmanship of the African Union was a personal victory for his Foreign Minister and presidential aspirant, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
		Kufuor faces three major problems: how to manage the NPP with its wafer-thin parliamentary majority; how to goad the sluggish economy into life as recession looms in the West; and how to handle the crop of allegations against leading members of the previous regime of grand corruption and human rights abuses.
		Kufuor came over as presidential but accessible, in an inquisition managed by his spokesperson, Elizabeth Ohene; she and Attorney General Nana Akufo-Addo want the obnoxious criminal libel laws abrogated this year.
	www.africa-confidential.com /index.aspx?pageid=22&countryid=22 (5160 words)

	PRESIDENTIAL MILESTONES
		Kufuor is only 60; JH Mensah (a non-Amanfoo) is 73 years old.
		Kufuor reiterated his desire to form an all-inclusive government.
		Colin Lucas, on Friday congratulated President John Kufuor, an alumni of the prestigious British University, and wished him a successful term of office.
	prempeh.org /points/milestones.html (449 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Incumbent Kufuor Re-Elected President of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ACCRA - Incumbent President John Kufuor has been re-elected president of Ghana, according to official results announced by the president of the electoral commission, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, on Thursday.
		According to official results from 225 of the 230 constituencies in the west African country after Tuesday's polls, Kufuor had a lead of 52.75 percent of the ballots over his main opponent John Atta Mills, with 44.32 percent, Afari-Gyan told a news conference.
		Afari-Gyan said that results from constituencies that had not yet been counted would not change the final outcome of the election, which eliminates the need for a run-off originally scheduled for December 28.
	en.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-9/24843.html (125 words)

	freedomforum.org: Election outcome in Ghana seen as victory for country's independent news media
		Kufuor's inauguration was greeted by Ghana's newspapers with huge banner headlines that declared: "New Era Dawns," "Hail the President" and "Kufuor takes over from J.J.," a reference to Rawlings' initials and nickname.
		During the September debate, Kufuor, who was runner-up to Rawlings in elections in 1996, called a free flow of information "critical" to Ghana's emerging democracy and criticized the government's use of criminal libel laws.
		At his inauguration, Kufuor pledged to build a stronger Ghana by tackling the poverty and economic decline that have plagued his country.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=12999 (536 words)

	USA/Africa Dialogue, No. 136: Ghana's Elections, IV
		While the elections have come and gone with Kufuor winning an easy victory, the controversy it threw up lingers and one of them was the allegation by Rawlings that Nigeria not only interfered in the process but that his life was threatened by security operatives allegedly sent in by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
		President Kufuor said the problem with Rawlings is that he cannot see anything good in his administration because Ghanaians rejected his party and candidate at the polls four years ago and he cannot live with that.
		President Kufuor was chosen for the second time by his party as the presidential candidate to contest the vote in 2000, which he won.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/136.html (3786 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Ghana Prepares for Presidential Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On Wednesday, the paper claimed that President Kufuor refused to acknowledge twin children he fathered during an extra-marital affair.
		The paper went on to say if the president was given another four years in office he would continue to be responsible for illegitimate children.
		The editor Ebenezer Josiah has since retracted the statement along with claims that President Kufuor was using local magic known as Juju.
	en.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-4/24726.html (332 words)

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