No reports on election-related violence against supporters of members of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) in the June 1998 election for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please see below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Africa Confidential [London]. June-July 1998. Vol. 38. Nos. 6-7.

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series [Oxford]. June-July 1998. Vol. 35. Nos. 6-7.

Amnesty International. 1999. Amnesty International Report 1999 http://www/amnesty.org/ailbi/aireport/ar99/afrindex.htm

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1998. 1999. United States Department of State. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Press.

Keesing's Record of World Events [Cambridge]. June-July 1998. Monthly. Vols. 44.

Political Handbook of the World 1998. 1998. Edited by Arthur S. Banks. Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications.

Electronic sources: IRB databases, Internet, LEXIS/NEXIS, World Network Connection (WNC)

Four oral sources did not provide information on the requested subject.