Ghana’s new president took office Wednesday following a peaceful but tense election that secured the country’s status as one of the continent’s few stable democracies.

Ghana’s Electoral Commission says opposition leader John Atta Mills has won the presidency of this West African nation.

Ghana’s leader appealed for calm Friday as residents of a single district cast ballots that could decide the outcome of the tight presidential race in this West African nation.

Residents of a single district that could decide the outcome of Ghana’s presidential election cast their ballots on Friday, despite attempts by the ruling party to stop the vote.

Ghana’s ruling party says it will boycott a single district’s repeat presidential vote that could decide who will lead the African nation.

Electoral officials in Ghana said Tuesday they will rerun an extraordinarily tight presidential vote in a single disputed constituency that could end up deciding the West African nation’s next leader.

The top U.S. envoy for Africa has warned that Zimbabwe could face the same fate as Guinea when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe dies.

Ghana’s presidential runoff vote appeared to go smoothly Sunday, observers and analysts said, even though the West African nation’s ruling party and opposition traded allegations of rigging.

Ghanaians returned to the polls Sunday for a presidential runoff vote in a race that has become a referendum on whether the country’s stunning growth of the past eight years has trickled down to ordinary people.

Ghana’s presidential contest heads to a runoff vote Sunday, a race that has become a referendum on whether the West African country’s stunning growth of the past eight years has trickled down to ordinary people.