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  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Ghana secures $3bn IMF deal after creditors agree to debt restructuring

    China, which is owed $1.5bn, among those that reached agreement on resolving long-running economic crisis

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
    Venice exhibition restores African architects to the story of Tropical Modernism

    The V&A shows how a ‘colonial’ style in fact always had diverse influences and practitioners

  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
    The Big Read
    How Ghana’s economy became a cautionary tale for Africa

    The decline of a regional champion rings alarm bells for other countries on the continent that overspent when debt was cheap

  • Monday, 1 May, 2023
    Ghana’s government to stop borrowing from central bank

    ‘Zero financing’ agreement deal with finance ministry helps pave way for $3bn IMF bailout

  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    FT SeriesDebt deadlock
    Ghana default puts domestic debt ‘can of worms’ in the spotlight

    IMF insists for first time that a government must deal with local creditors before it will approve a bailout

  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    Medical science
    Oxford malaria vaccine wins first regulatory approval from Ghana

    Research found booster dose of R21 showed efficacy as high as 80% in one group, and 70% in another

  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    Ghana’s bilateral creditors set to clear way for $3bn IMF bailout

    Accra’s finance minister is optimistic foreign governments will agree on debt relief deal

  • 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

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