Ghana 2007
Yearbook 2007 Ghana. According to CountryAAH, Accra is the capital city of Ghana. President John Kufuor was elected President of the African Union (AU) in January. It was the second year in a row that the AU chose to bypass the Sudanese president because of the difficult situation in the Darfur region. In February, a former minister was sentenced to ten years in prison for embezzlement of state funds. The ruling led to his party, the former National Democratic Congress (NDC) ruling party, launching a boycott of parliamentary work. The NDC claimed that the government devoted itself to revenge on the previous administration instead of reviewing the corruption in its own ranks. In 1957, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan African country to break free from colonial dependence and proclaim its…