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Melissa Chemam with RFI

Ghana voters carry economic pain to the polls

Supporters of the former Ghana president and presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress, John Mahama, gather during the party's final rally, in Accra on Thursday, 5 December, 2024. AP - Misper Apawu

Eighteen million people in Ghana will choose their next president and 275 parliamentarians on Saturday amid the country's worst economic crisis in decades.

The race pits Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) against former president John Dramani Mahama of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), with 10 other candidates also running.

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