ACCRA, Ghana -- Taking a break from work, hotel desk clerk Augustine Kumi, 23, briefly wondered aloud why he and many fellow Ghanaians are poor. After all, his stable country enjoys a democratically elected government and, he pointed out, it boasts valued natural resources such as gold, timber and cocoa. That doesn't account for the high inflows of foreign aid, perhaps comprising more than 40 percent of the annual budget. But then Kumi answered his own question. "We don't have good leaders," he said. "They are greedy." Kumi's gripes, in part, are tied to his frustrations with President John Kufuor's government.
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