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rigid regulation

Premium badgeGhana needs stricter regulation and technology to fight off gold-smuggling hub tag

‘The State of the Illicit Economy’ report, presented at the AfCFTA Business Forum in Cape Town, South Africa last month by OriginAll, a company that c...

© Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta speaks during a news conference in Accra, Ghana December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

purse manager

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things to know about Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is steering the affairs for Ghana’s long journey towards a $3bn IMF bailout. The investment banker turned politician e...
© Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Visual Art Awards, London, 2016. John Phillips/Getty Images via AFP

Gifted & Black

Premium badgeGhana-UK: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative Black portraiture After showing at the Tate, this painter is being welcomed by the Guggenheim, where 70 of her works are showcased.
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Coffee with...

Premium badgeUrsula Owusu-Ekuful, Ghanaian minister pushing for more women, rural folk to be digital savvy It’s a hot day in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on the sidelines of the Smart Africa connectivity conference as we sit down with Ghana’s Minister for Comm...

Ghana top stories

© File photo of an artisanal miner climbing out of a gold mine with a bag of rocks broken off from inside the unlicensed mining site of Nsuaem Top in Ghana. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

rigid regulation

Premium badgeGhana needs stricter regulation and technology to fight off gold-smuggling hub tag ‘The State of the Illicit Economy’ report, presented at the AfCFTA Business Forum in Cape Town, South Africa last month by OriginAll, a company that c...
© Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta speaks during a news conference in Accra, Ghana December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

purse manager

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things to know about Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is steering the affairs for Ghana’s long journey towards a $3bn IMF bailout. The investment banker turned politician e...
© Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Visual Art Awards, London, 2016. John Phillips/Getty Images via AFP

Gifted & Black

Premium badgeGhana-UK: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative Black portraiture After showing at the Tate, this painter is being welcomed by the Guggenheim, where 70 of her works are showcased.

Ghana top stories

© File photo of an artisanal miner climbing out of a gold mine with a bag of rocks broken off from inside the unlicensed mining site of Nsuaem Top in Ghana. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

rigid regulation

Premium badgeGhana needs stricter regulation and technology to fight off gold-smuggling hub tag ‘The State of the Illicit Economy’ report, presented at the AfCFTA Business Forum in Cape Town, South Africa last month by OriginAll, a company that c...
© Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta speaks during a news conference in Accra, Ghana December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

purse manager

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things to know about Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is steering the affairs for Ghana’s long journey towards a $3bn IMF bailout. The investment banker turned politician e...
© Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Visual Art Awards, London, 2016. John Phillips/Getty Images via AFP

Gifted & Black

Premium badgeGhana-UK: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative Black portraiture After showing at the Tate, this painter is being welcomed by the Guggenheim, where 70 of her works are showcased.

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financial fix

Premium badgeAnalysts say fiscal discipline needed following Ghana-IMF deal Government will need to maintain radical economic reform to honour the arrangement with the IMF, say financial experts.
© The Ghana cedi (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)

retirement woes

Premium badgeGhana: Pensioners halt protest following payment promise Pensioners in Ghana put a stop to the most recent swathe of protests after a payment deal was reached between the Pensioner Bond Holders Forum and the...
© John Dramani Mahama in Accra, Ghana December 5, 2016. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

THIRD ATTEMPT

Premium badgeGhana: Will ex-president John Mahama be third time lucky? The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has kicked off the political season by voting to retain John Mahama as its flagbearer for the 2024 poll.
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positive steps

Premium badgeGhana closer to IMF deal, but has a way to go in talks with creditors Ghana’s official creditors have made formal commitments towards a restructure of the country’s debts, pushing the West African country a step closer t...
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Easy Money

Premium badgeGhana: Economists fear central bank to print money for financial stability fund Ghana needs to anchor expectations that the Financial Stability Fund (FSF) intended to stabilise the country’s banks won’t be financed with printed mo...
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SHOWDOWN

Premium badgeGhana: Opposition NDC presidential polls in limbo over injunction notice On Saturday (13 May), Ghana’s largest opposition, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is set to hold a crucial poll to elect its presidential and ...