The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), a regional civil society organization, in collaboration with the National Peace Council (NPC), has launched the Election Situation Room to monitor the December 7 polls.

The two main contenders for this year’s presidential election, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and former President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), will sign the Presidential Elections Peace Pact (PEPP) today to commit them and their parties and supporters to non-violence, the resort to judicial process to seek redress in case of disputes and work towards eradicating vigilantism.

Chairman of National Peace Council, Dr Ernest Adu Gyamfi says President Akufo Addo and the Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will on Friday, December 4, sign a peace pact.

The Baptist World Alliance recently announced its 22nd Baptist World Congress will be held virtually in July 2021 — a year after the original, in-person event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chairman of the National Peace Council, Rev Dr Ernest Adu Gyamfi has called on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to boycott arrangements for a Citizens’ Arrest Task Force ahead of the elections.