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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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