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		<title>National Reconciliation Commission</title>
		<link>http://ghanahistory.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/national-reconciliation-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Fourth Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armah-Attoh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Governance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reparations for victims of human rights abuses ACCRA, 17 October 2006 (IRIN) &#8211; The administration of President John Kufuor has begun paying reparations to about 2,000 Ghanaians who suffered human rights abuses under former governments.   Individual payments, which began on Monday, range from about US $217 to US $3,300 depending on the extent of abuse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=157&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Patriotic Party Retains Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 03:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The New Patriotic Party Retains Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atta-Mills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2004, eight political parties contested parliamentary elections and four parties, including the NPP and NDC, contested presidential elections. This election was reported to have a remarkable turnout of 85.12% according to the Election Commission. Despite a few incidents of intimidation and minor irregularities, domestic and international observers judged the elections generally free and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=72&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President John Kufuor Takes Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2000 03:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The December 2000 elections ushered in the first democratic presidential change of power in Ghana&#8217;s history when John A. Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) defeated the NDC&#8217;s John Atta Mills – who was Rawling&#8217;s Vice President and hand-picked successor. Kufuor defeated Mills by winning 56.73% of the vote. The elections were declared free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=70&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Jerry Rawlings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 1993 03:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The constitution entered into force on January 7, 1993, to found the Fourth Republic. Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings was inaugurated as President and members of Parliament swore their oaths of office. In 1996, the opposition fully contested the presidential and parliamentary elections, which were described as peaceful, free, and transparent by domestic and international [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=68&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fourth Republic</title>
		<link>http://ghanahistory.wordpress.com/1992/12/29/the-fourth-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 18, 1992, the ban on party politics was lifted in preparation for multi-party elections. The PNDC and its supporters formed a new party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to contest the elections. Presidential elections were held on November 3 and parliamentary elections on December 29, 1992. Members of the opposition boycotted the parliamentary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=66&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Pressure Mounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 1992 03:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under international and domestic pressure for a return to democracy, the PNDC allowed the establishment of a 258-member Consultative Assembly made up of members representing geographic districts as well as established civic or business organizations. The assembly was charged to draw up a draft constitution to establish a Fourth Republic, using PNDC proposals. The PNDC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=64&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping a Road to Democracy</title>
		<link>http://ghanahistory.wordpress.com/1984/07/01/mapping-a-road-to-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 1984 03:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1984, the PNDC created a National Appeals Tribunal to hear appeals from public tribunals; changed the Citizens&#8217; Vetting Committee into the Office of Revenue Collection; and replaced the system of defense committees with Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. They also created a National Commission on Democracy to study ways to establish participatory [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=62&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decentralizing Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 1982 03:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PNDC proclaimed its intent to allow the people to exercise political power through defense committees in communities and in units of the armed forces and police – Ghana would, however, remain a unitary government. In December 1982, it announced a plan to decentralize government from Accra to the regions, the districts, and local communities, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=60&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Limann&#8217;s Fresh Hope Fails and Rawlings Returns</title>
		<link>http://ghanahistory.wordpress.com/1981/12/31/limanns-fresh-hope-fails-and-rawlings-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 1981 03:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1979 constitution was modeled on those of Western democracies. It provided for the separation of powers between an elected president and a unicameral Parliament, an independent judiciary headed by a Supreme Court, which protected individual rights, and other autonomous institutions, such as the Electoral Commissioner and the Ombudsman. The new President, Dr. Hilla Limann, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=56&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating the Third Republic</title>
		<link>http://ghanahistory.wordpress.com/1979/09/24/creating-the-third-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 1979 03:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through a combination of force and exhortation the AFRC attempted to rid Ghanaian society of corruption and profiteering. At the same time, the AFRC accepted, with a few amendments, the draft constitution that had been submitted; permitted the scheduled presidential and parliamentary elections to take place in June and July; promulgated the constitution; and handed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ghanahistory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4780240&amp;post=54&amp;subd=ghanahistory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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