During Rawlings’s administration, the following companies were in Ghana for exploration activities without success: NUEVO 1998, Dana 1999, Hunt oil 1999, Fusion oil and gas from Australia in 1999, Santa Fe, 2000. Unfortunately all the wells drilled by these companies yielded no viable commercial discoveries.

AFRIKA WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER!!!
African revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the
United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to
establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that will be permanently
resident in Africa to oversee the country's imperialist interests.

The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Horst Koehler, sent the following message to the Government and people of Ghana on Ghana’s 53rd Independence Day:

As Ghana celebrates 53 years of Independence this Saturday, the ambassador to the United States is hailing the strong bilateral relations between Accra and Washington.