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GRi Newsreel 28 – 03 - 2003

Dr Addo Kufuor, The Minister of Defence, Dr KwakuAfriyie Minister of Health, and Mrs Gladys Asmah Minister of Women and Children's Affairs retained their current portfolios.

Others left unscathed were Major Courage Quarshigah Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kwamena Bartels Minister of Private sector Development and Ms Christine Churcher, Minister of State in Charge of Girl Child Education.

A government statement signed by Kwadwo Mpiani, Chief of Staff said Nana AddoDankwaAkufo-Addo, who until the change was the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, would assume duty as the Minister of Foreign Affairs while Papa Owusu Ankomah takes over from him as the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General.

Kwadwo Baah Wiredu becomes the new Minister of Education, Youth and Sports and Jake ObetsebiLamptey moves from the Ministry of Information and Presidential Affairs to become the Minister of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City.

Dr PaaKwesi Nduom becomes the Minister of Energy, Professor KasimKasanga, Minister of Science and Environment while Felix Owusu Adjapong is now the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.

Other changes were Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Yaw Osafo Maafo, Minister of Lands and Forestry Professor Dominic Fobih, Minister of Interior, Hackman Owusu Agyeman and the Minister of Manpower Development and Employment Yaw Barimah.

The rest are Minister of Roads and Highways, Dr Richard Anane, Minister of Communications and Technology Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister of Regional Cooperation and NEPAD Dr Kofi Apraku and Minister of Ports, Harbours andRailways, Prof AmeyawAkumfi.

The statement said Mrs Cecilia Bannerman becomes the Minister of Mines, K. Adjei Darko assumes duty as the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Ms Elisabeth Ohene, Minister of State for Tertiary Education and IshmealAshitey, Minister of State at the Ministry of Trade, Indu

Leader of Ghana in 1979 and 1981–2001

Jerry John Rawlings (born Jerry Rawlings John; 22 June 1947 – 12 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator and politician who led the country for a brief period in 1979, and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military junta until 1993, and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana. He was the longest-serving leader in Ghana's history, presiding over the country for 19 years.

Rawlings came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a bloody coup d'état in 1979. Prior to that, he led an unsuccessful coup attempt against the ruling military government on Tuesday, 15 May 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due to take place. After handing power over to a civilian government, he overthrew the democratically elected Government through a military coup on Thursday, 31 December 1981 as the chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). Under his military regime there were numerous human rights abuses.

In 1992, Rawlings resigned from the military, founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and became the first president of the Fourth Republic. Rawlings brokered a ceasefire in 1995 during the First Liberian Civil War. He was re-elected in 1996 for four more years. After two terms in office, the limit according to the Ghanaian Constitution, Rawlings endorsed his vice-president John Atta Mills as a presidential candidate in 2000. Rawlings served as the African Union envoy to Somalia. He died in 2020 at age 73 and was accorded a state funeral.

Background

Rawlings was born as Jerry Rawlings John on Sunday, 22 June 1947 in Accra, Ghana, to Victoria Agbotui, an Anlo Ewe from Dzelukope, Keta, and James Ramsey John, a British

President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009

For his son, the Ghanaian businessman, see John Addo Kufuor.

John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938) is a Ghanaian politiciana who served as the tenth president of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. He was the fifth chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008 and his victory over John Atta Mills at the end of Jerry Rawlings' second term marked the first transition of power in Ghana from a democratic party to another democratic party.

Kufuor's career has been spent on the liberal-democratic side of Ghanaian politics, in the parties descended from the United Gold Coast Convention and the United Party. As a lawyer and businessman, he was a minister in Kofi Abrefa Busia's Progress Party government during Ghana's Second Republic, and a Popular Front Party opposition frontbencher during the Third Republic. 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. Having served two terms in power, he retired from politics in 2008. He is popularly known as the Gentle Giant.

Early life and schooling

The scion of a royal maternal lineage, John Kufuor was born in Daaban, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He started his primary and elementary school at the Kumasi Government School located in Asem built by Sir Gordon Guggisberg. Kufuor was the 7th of 10 children of Nana Kwadwo Agyekum, an Asante and Nana Ama Dapaah, a Queen Mother. In 1951, he continued his primary (then called 'standard' three) education at Osei Tutu Boarding School (Osei Tutu Senior High School) from 1951 to 1953. At Prempeh College from 1954 to 1958, he schooled from Form 1 to Form 5. Arriving in London on 30 April 1959, he was by June accepted into Lincoln's Inn, London (1959–61) t