Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (born March 29, 1944) is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat. He was one of the founding members of the centre New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 1992, and was also the founder and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights. He was educated at the Lancing College, Sussex, England, and the University of Ghana, Legon, and graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc) in Economics degree.

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  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (born March 29, 1944) is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat. He was one of the founding members of the centre New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 1992, and was also the founder and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights. He was educated at the Lancing College, Sussex, England, and the University of Ghana, Legon, and graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc) in Economics degree. Nana Akufo Addo trained as a lawyer in England and was called to the English Bar in July 1971 as well as the Ghanaian Bar in July 1975. He had a stint with the Coudert Freres, a major US law firm, as an associate counsel, at its Paris office in France between 1971 and 1975. The Foreign Minister also worked as a junior partner at the chambers of U.V. Campbell, and in 1979 co-founded, with Dr Edmund Prempeh, the law firm, Akufo-Addo, Prempeh and Company in Accra. Nana Akufo-Addo has served on the boards and committees of a number of political, legal and social organisations in the country. He is also the Chairperson of DHL, Ghana Limited; Chairperson, Kinesec Communications Company Limited, publishers of the Statesman. Under President John Kufuor, Akufo-Addo was the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from 2001 to 2003; he was then Minister for Foreign Affairs from April 2003 to July 2007, when, in accordance with his political party's rules, he resigned, along with seven others, to seek the presidential nomination of his party. On December 23 2007, Akufo-Addo was elected as the NPP's 2008 presidential candidate at a party congress, receiving 47.96% of valid votes (1,096 votes). Although he fell short of the required 50%, the second-place candidate, John Alan Kyeremanten, conceded defeat and backed Akufo-Addo. In the 2008 presidential election, Akufo-Addo received the highest number of votes in the first round of voting, but since he failed to obtain a majority, the election went into a second round runoff between him and National Democratic Congress candidate John Atta-Mills. In the runoff, he lost the election to Atta-Mills by a 50.23%–49.77% vote.
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (* 29. März 1944) ist ein Anwalt und Politiker in Ghana. Er war bis zum 31. Juli 2007 Außenminister Ghanas sowie Minister für regionale Integration und Minister für The New Partnership und Africa's Development (NEPAD) (Regional Integration & NEPAD). Aufgrund seines Wunsches als Kandidat einer Partei bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen des Jahres 2008 anzutreten trat er zum 31. Juli 2007 freiwillig vom Ministerposten zurück. Er galt neben John Atta-Mills als aussichtsreichster Kandidat der New Patriotic Party (NPP) bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen im Jahr 2008, als die zweite und verfassungsmäßig letzte Amtszeit von Präsident John Agyekum Kufuor endete, konnte sich aber nicht gegen Atta-Mills durchsetzen.
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, est un homme politique ghanéen. Ministre des Affaires étrangères du 1 avril 2003 au 27 juillet 2007. Il est de janvier 2001 au 1 avril 2003, ministre de la Justice.
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, ghański polityk i dyplomata. Minister sprawiedliwości w latach 2001-2003, minister spraw zagranicznych w latach 2003-2007. Kandydat w wyborach prezydenckich w grudniu 2008.
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo är en ghanansk politiker. Som det Nya patriotiska partiets presidentkandidat erövrade han flest röster (49,13 %) i första valomgången 2008 och ställs i andra valomgången, den 28 december mot sin huvudmotståndare John Atta Mills.
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  • Politician and lawyer, Foreign Minister of Ghana
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  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (born March 29, 1944) is a Ghanaian politician and diplomat. He was one of the founding members of the centre New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 1992, and was also the founder and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights. He was educated at the Lancing College, Sussex, England, and the University of Ghana, Legon, and graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc) in Economics degree.
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (* 29. März 1944) ist ein Anwalt und Politiker in Ghana. Er war bis zum 31. Juli 2007 Außenminister Ghanas sowie Minister für regionale Integration und Minister für The New Partnership und Africa's Development (NEPAD) (Regional Integration & NEPAD). Aufgrund seines Wunsches als Kandidat einer Partei bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen des Jahres 2008 anzutreten trat er zum 31. Juli 2007 freiwillig vom Ministerposten zurück.
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, est un homme politique ghanéen. Ministre des Affaires étrangères du 1 avril 2003 au 27 juillet 2007. Il est de janvier 2001 au 1 avril 2003, ministre de la Justice.
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, ghański polityk i dyplomata. Minister sprawiedliwości w latach 2001-2003, minister spraw zagranicznych w latach 2003-2007. Kandydat w wyborach prezydenckich w grudniu 2008.
  • Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo är en ghanansk politiker. Som det Nya patriotiska partiets presidentkandidat erövrade han flest röster (49,13 %) i första valomgången 2008 och ställs i andra valomgången, den 28 december mot sin huvudmotståndare John Atta Mills.
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