WORLD BRIEFING | AFRICA
Ghana: Runoff Election Is Forced
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 10, 2008
Neither the governing party nor the opposition secured enough votes to win Sunday’s presidential election outright, forcing a runoff in Ghana, one of Africa’s few stable democracies. Nana Akufo-Addo, of the governing New Patriotic Party, received 49.1 percent of the vote — just 1 percentage point shy of what he needed to win the election in the first round. The opposition candidate, John Atta Mills, received 47.9 percent of the 8.6 million votes cast, according to returns from all but one of the country’s 230 precincts. The runoff will be held on Dec. 28.
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