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The CFR asks if peaceful elections in Ghana are an anomaly or a signal of a wider trend to follow throughout Africa.

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Ghana

Mills transition into Ghanaian leadership has proved peaceful, says Michelle Sieff

Elections in Ghana

John Atta Mills of the National Democratic Party (NDC), the opposition party in Ghana, appears to have won the recent election. Elections were so close that official results had to be postponed for further scrutiny. 

With elections as close as they were, and coming in the wake of unsuccessful elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe, Ghana is all the more in the spotlight to show its tenacity in making democracy work. 

The Economist describes Mills as a moderate, "basically free-market" kind of guy leading a leftist party. His NDC party made some gains to become the nation's biggest party, but it is not a majority.