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    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Darlington Akogo
      Accra provides lessons on how to run an AI start-up

      Scepticism towards artificial intelligence is to be expected but young Africans increasingly realise that can be overcome

      Person looking at the monitor of a computer workstation
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      David Adjaye
      David Adjaye gave names of alleged abuse victims to Ghanaian government

      High-profile architect fights to save reputation after FT investigation

      Sir David Adjaye
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      African Head Charge: A Trip to Bolgatanga — sounds of rural Ghana

      The duo transport listeners to the country’s northern region on their first album in more than a decade

      Adrian Sherwood and Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah sit on a leather sofa. Sherwood wears a crocodile skull on his head, Noah a patterned kaftan and glasses
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Deforestation
      Tropical forest loss increased by 10% in 2022

      Tree cover the size of Switzerland destroyed globally last year with Brazil top of the list for largest decline

      Deforested land in the rural city of Humaita, Amazonas
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Behind the Money podcast18 min listen
      Is Africa’s debt cycle unbreakable?

      One west African country serves as a cautionary tale for the continent’s worsening debt crisis

    • 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

      The IMF logo
    • 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

      A side-on view of a modernist building with washing hanging over many balconies
    • 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

      A montage image with a green background, lines of a graph and a protester holding a sign reading, ‘Inflation is too high, why Nana Akufo-Addo?’
    • 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

      Central bank governor Ernest Addison
    • 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

      Street vendors sell fresh produce at the Makola Market in Accra, Ghana
    • 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

      A baby receives a vaccine
    • 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

      Pedestrians on a street in Accra
    • 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’

      The headquarters of Ghana’s central bank in Accra
    • 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

      People on a busy street in Ghana
    • 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

      Germany midfielder Kai Havertz
    • 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

      Luis Suárez, left, and Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan after missing his penalty during the shootout in the  2010 World Cup quarter-final match
    • 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

      Nana Akufo-Addo looking pensive with elbow on his table and hand on his mouth.
    • 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

      Ghana’s Mohammed Kudus celebrates scoring the team’s third goal against South Korea
    • 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

      Traffic in a street in Ghana’s capital, Accra
    • 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

      Police officers in Accra stand guard as protesters march during a demonstration on the current cedi currency depreciation
    • 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

      Cooking oil is prepared for sale at a market stall in Lilongwe, Malawi
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