1.0link154968<![CDATA[Ghana Election: Opposition Leader Wins Presidency]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/03/ghana-election-opposition_n_154968.htmlACCRA, Ghana — Opposition leader John Atta Mills was declared Ghana's next president Saturday in a peaceful ballot that secured the West African nation's place as a beacon of democracy on a volatile continent.
The country is one of the few in Africa to successfully transfer power twice from one legitimately elected leader to another, proof that Ghana's democracy has truly matured after an era of coups and dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.