According to the office, the former first lady is alive and is in good health contrary to such reports. It is within this context that in Africa in general and in West Africa in particular, a good neighbourliness policy has been pursued, which saw Ghana under Kufuor brokering peace in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau, among other African states. .then(function (registration) { the Manhyia South MP, were present. When Kufuor was sworn in on 7 January 2001,[11] it marked the first time in Ghana's history that an incumbent government had peaceful transition of power to the opposition. Ex-President Kufuor informed of the death of the Drobomanhene Whenever i think of Ghana, this is the first face that comes to mind. All rights reserved. 31 August 2019 5:41am. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Ghana has yet to experience your kind of leadership after your exit. In the Fourth Republic Kufuor stood as the New Patriotic Party's candidate at the 1996 election, and then led it to victory in 2000 and 2004. Eyewitness? Mr. John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor, the former civilian
President of Ghana, is dead. You are a living legend. In the second round, held on 28 December, Kufuor was victorious, taking 56.9% of the vote. The rumour about Mr Kufuor s death was all over the country, with people placing calls to close contacts. During his visit to the Netherlands, he was interviewed by the newspaper NRC Handelsblad and the Internationale Samenwerking magazine. According to him, the ex-president is alive and kicking and will be joining the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate at Akropong for the constituency campaign launch in the Eastern Region. This page was last edited on 1 February 2023, at 06:55. Kufuor was reported to be uninjured. He was succeeded by Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania on 31 January 2008. You do not have any stains in your white shirt and neither was your government overthrown by unruly soldiers. [15] "readystatechange - "+document.readyState;"complete"===document.readyState||"loaded"===document.readyState? [citation needed]. [22][23], He renovated the Accra Sports Stadium and the Baba Yara Stadium as well as built the Essipong and Tamale stadium in 2008 to host the CAN 2008. Kufuor and his family reside in Accra, Ghana's capital. Russian President Vladimir Putin's spin doctor-turned-critic has died at the age of 71 at a Moscow hospice after a prolonged illness, his family announced. His administration's domestic policy in the first term was marked by fiscal and monetary stringency on the economic front, aimed at stabilising a national economy that had stagnated and was in decline. 133.18.228.216 By 1969 he was a member of Parliament and deputy foreign minister in the government of Kofi Busia. Distinction of Grand Cordon in the Most Venerable Order of the Knighthood of the Pioneers of the Republic of Liberia(2008). "I have gone through all these periods and I have come to the conclusion that perhaps, what our constitution should have, is to temper the extremes of our democracy. Kufuor was the 7th of 10 children of Nana Kwadwo Agyekum, an Asante royal, and Nana Ama Dapaah, a queen mother. The office of former president John Kufour has asked the public to disregard information on social media about the demise of former first lady, Theresa Kufuor. During Ghanas transition back to democracy in 1979, Kufuor returned to public life. [1], The scion of a royal and an aristocratic maternal lineage, John Kufuor was born in Daaban a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, and started his primary and elementary school at the Kumasi Government School located in Asem built by Sir Gordon Guggisberg. (b=!0,m=e,setTimeout(function(){y.requireModulesWithModuleBase(a,e,function(){var b=Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments,0);try{h=q.apply(null,b)}catch(e){d(14,a+" -> "+e);return}l.exec([h])})},0)):d(15,a)},getDeps:function(){return!0===b?m:[]},get:function(a){l.add(a)},closeDefine:function(){g=!0;!1===b&&(b=!0,l.exec([void 0]))}}}function K(a){function b(b,e,g){if(0c.length?d(5,a):(c.pop(),b(c.join("/")))}function b(a,b){var c=a.split("/"),n=b.split("/");if(0