Just hours before President Nana Akofu Edu was sworn in yesterday, the army entered the Ghanaian parliament to settle differences between opposition lawmakers. The clashes highlighted tensions following the December 7 election, which led to extraordinary unrest in Ghana, a cocoa and gold-producing country considered a stronghold of democracy in West Africa. When a member of the President’s NPP party picked up some ballot papers during an overnight vote to elect the Speaker of the House.