The US Order Department on Monday announced it’ll restrict visas for folks who Washington deems to blame for undermining democracy in Ghana.
The circulate comes forward of presidential and parliamentary elections attributable to occur in the West African nation on 7 December.
Ghana has held accrued, free, magnificent, and clear elections for almost two a protracted time. However allegations of voter roll irregularities this yr possess created considerations just a few conceivable democratic backslide.
The December polls could presumably be the ninth consecutive overall election for the reason that nation’s return to multi-occasion democracy in 1992.
US Secretary of Order Antony Blinken used to be quoted as announcing that the visa coverage announced on Monday could presumably be directed best at folks “who undermine democracy” and now no longer on the authorities or folks of Ghana.
Last month, Ghana’s ideal opposition occasion, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), held nationwide protests disturbing an audit of the voter roll.
It alleged that it had detected thousands of unauthorised transfers and removals of voter names.
Incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is stepping down this yr after his 2d and closing four-yr term.
Thirteen candidates were authorized by the electoral fee to flee in the presidential election.
However analyst take into consideration it’ll be a two-man flee been former President John Dramani Mahama and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia.
