Ghana votes for new president to usher in oil era

Ghanaians queued up and began voting on Sunday to pick a new president in a tight race between two foreign-educated lawyers competing to lead the West African nation as it prepares to cash in on offshore oil reserves. Peaceful elections, as most observers are expecting, would be a shot in the arm for African democracy campaigners after electoral violence in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.Voters in the coastal capital Accra began forming hundreds-strong queues from the early hours."I was here at 3.15 (3.15am GMT). I'm anxious for my party to win," Gregoire Adukpo (62) a retired private security official, said at a polling station set up at a Catholic Church in Accra.