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  • Monday, 19 December, 2022
    Ghana halts payments on large swaths of foreign debt

    Highly indebted African nation is facing a ‘major economic and financial crisis’

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Burkina Faso
    Burkina Faso latest to ‘hire Russian mercenaries’, Ghana alleges

    Akufo-Addo tells Blinken that Wagner Group has ‘entered into an arrangement’ with Ouagadougou to fight jihadist revolt

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Ghana reaches preliminary $3bn deal with IMF

    Officials in Accra must agree conditions with other creditors before three-year loan is signed off

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    News in-depthFIFA World Cup
    World Cup briefing: Germany beat a hasty exit

    Plus, VAR line call goes Japan’s way, Ghana grudge match

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    FIFA World Cup
    World Cup: Ghana-Uruguay grudge match shows attraction of the villain

    West African nation out for revenge after last-minute Luis Suárez handball denied it a semi-final berth in 2010

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    David Pilling
    Ghana faces rude awakening as the tide of cheap money recedes

    More countries will be unable to pay their debts after Covid and Ukraine, but ‘malevolent forces’ may not be the only problem

  • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
    Global Economy
    The World Bank’s guarantee debacles

    Adventures in super-seniority

  • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
    Sovereign bonds
    FUD and the Ghana 2030 Bond

    When guarantees lead to a guaranteed headache

  • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
    FIFA World Cup
    World Cup briefing: Ghana win shows flaws in Fifa rankings

    Plus, England take on Wales, a moment of magic from Cameroon

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    Lex
    Ghana: admission of default is a welcome reality check Premium content

    Risks are priced in with yields on the country’s sovereign bonds barely budging on the news

  • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
    Ghana’s economy battling ‘malevolent forces’, says president

    In a reversal of fortune, west African nation now has one of world’s worst performing currencies

  • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
    Food & Beverage
    Cadbury maker Mondelez to invest $600mn on sustainable cocoa sourcing

    Ivory Coast and Ghana boycott annual meeting amid rising tensions in chocolate industry

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    News in-depthAfrican economy
    Global inflation pushes millions of Africans back into poverty

    People across continent struggle to cope with impact of weak currencies and high prices

  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Special ReportAfrican Development
    Nigeria and Ghana’s health systems stand in contrast

    Africa’s largest economy has some of the worst outcomes in the world

  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    Ghana raises interest rates to 22% in biggest move for 20 years

    Central bank seeks to counter soaring inflation and depreciating currency

  • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
    Pandemic financial response ignored poor countries’ concerns, says Ghana minister

    Measures aggravated problems for many countries now struggling to service debts, says Ken Ofori-Atta

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Agricultural commodities
    Nestlé to pay cocoa farmers to stop using child labour

    Maker of Kit Kat to tackle root cause through direct payments to smallholders

  • Saturday, 24 July, 2021
    Enuma Okoro
    The life-long art of making friends

    At any age, to encounter someone new with whom you feel a genuine connection is an immeasurable gift

  • Saturday, 5 June, 2021
    FT SeriesInflation: a new era?
    Developing economies threatened by US inflation

    Investors demand higher bond yields, posing refinancing challenge for indebted countries

  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    David Pilling
    Making chocolate can give Ghana a taste of prosperity

    Producing bars at home, rather than exporting raw cocoa, is one way to break neocolonial trading patterns

  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    AMC butters up retail investors, Naomi Osaka and the media

    A wave of high-profile ransomware assaults over the past two months has convulsed the insurance market

  • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
    Travel
    How I fled London for a 1,000-mile trek across Ghana

    Stifled and lost in his city office, Robert Martineau flew to Accra and set out on foot for a remote desert shrine

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    David Pilling
    The man who helped make ordinary Africans’ voices heard

    Gyimah-Boadi’s Afrobarometer has worked to energise civil society and make the case for better government

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Ghana becomes first country to receive free Covax vaccines

    African officials complain of delay in delivery to other member states

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Orla Ryan
    Chocolate is a treat but leaves a sour taste in cocoa farmers’ mouths

    For families growing the crop in west Africa, the farmgate price is low and the life uncertain

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