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An informal gold miner carries a shovel as he climbs out from inside a gold mining pit at the site of Nsuaem-Top, Ghana November 24, 2018. Picture taken November 24, 2018. To match Special Report GOLD-AFRICA/POISON REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Mutual trust

Premium badgeA $275m dispute with Cassius Mining unlikely to dent Ghana’s attractive FDI reputation A subsidiary of the Australian company is looking for compensation for alleged violations of licensing agreements. Experts doubt it will rock Ghana’s ...
Michael Mensah

'Pipe dream'

Premium badgeGhana’s aluminium plan too good to be true? The West African country is hoping to be the first nation on the continent to achieve full vertical integration in the aluminium industry; doubters ru...
Ghana’s speaker of parliament, Alban Bagbin, says the bill will be passed before the end of the year. (Photo: Twitter @askbagbin)

Tug-of-war

Premium badgeGhana: Advocates stand up to parliament’s push for anti-LGBTQ+ bill The bill toughens punishments for same-sex relationships and gay rights advocacy, with sentences of up to 10 years.
Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia hopes to ‘break the eight’. (AFP/Nipah Dennis)

CLIFF HANGER

Premium badgeGhana: Will the NPP prove Mahama wrong by sticking with Bawumia? Mahamudu Bawumia could make history as the first vice president to go two full terms with a president and then take over as Ghana’s head of state.

Ghana top stories

Who’s who in Vice President and presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia.

inner circle

Premium badgeGhana: Who’s who in VP Bawumia’s campaign team? Ghana’s VP Mahamudu Bawumia stands on the verge of history at the presidential primaries of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) on 4 November.
© Edward Gyambrah, the officer-in-charge of the Domestic Tax and Revenue Division at the Ghana Revenue Authority. Photo supplied

taking a gamble

Premium badgeGhana: Betting tax stirs public anger, experts’ doubts over economic impact Controversy is brewing in the West African nation as the government’s recent introduction of a 10% withholding tax on betting and lottery winnings ign...
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Cocoa beans are pictured next to a warehouse at the village of Atroni, near Sunyani © FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Cocoa beans are pictured next to a warehouse at the village of Atroni, near Sunyani, Ghana April 11, 2019. Picture taken April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Ange Aboa/File Photo/File Photo – RC2353A8341Z

Not enough

Premium badgeGhana: Cocoa farmers still disgruntled despite hiked price The announcement on 9 September that cocoa price went up from GH¢800 to GH¢1,308 ($113) per bag evoked mixed responses from farmers.

Ghana top stories

Who’s who in Vice President and presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia.

inner circle

Premium badgeGhana: Who’s who in VP Bawumia’s campaign team? Ghana’s VP Mahamudu Bawumia stands on the verge of history at the presidential primaries of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) on 4 November.
© Edward Gyambrah, the officer-in-charge of the Domestic Tax and Revenue Division at the Ghana Revenue Authority. Photo supplied

taking a gamble

Premium badgeGhana: Betting tax stirs public anger, experts’ doubts over economic impact Controversy is brewing in the West African nation as the government’s recent introduction of a 10% withholding tax on betting and lottery winnings ign...
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Cocoa beans are pictured next to a warehouse at the village of Atroni, near Sunyani © FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Cocoa beans are pictured next to a warehouse at the village of Atroni, near Sunyani, Ghana April 11, 2019. Picture taken April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Ange Aboa/File Photo/File Photo – RC2353A8341Z

Not enough

Premium badgeGhana: Cocoa farmers still disgruntled despite hiked price The announcement on 9 September that cocoa price went up from GH¢800 to GH¢1,308 ($113) per bag evoked mixed responses from farmers.

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WATCHDOGS

Premium badgeGhana: Who’s who in Akufo-Addo’s anti-terrorism network? The Africa Report takes a look at the security leaders maintaining Ghana’s reputation as the oasis of peace in the troubled West Africa.
Preparations at Atlantic Lithium’s Ewoyaa project in Ghana. Photo supplied.

undervalued assets

Premium badgeGhana: Lithium production in limbo after stalled negotiations Australia’s Atlantic Lithium Ltd is hoped to be the first international company to reap benefits of Ghana’s lithium stores via the Ewoyaa project.
Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana talks during the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee new conference in Accra

ULTIMATUM

Premium badgeGhana’s central bank boss under pressure to resign over fiscal recklessness Ernest Addison and his deputies have been given an ultimatum to leave the Central Bank or face the wrath of the opposition party.
University students at All Nations University in Koforidua, Ghana.(AP/Christian Thompson)

regaining control

Premium badgeAfrican scholars fight to reclaim intellectual space For the first time in over three decades, African scholars are collaborating to revive the 1900s movement for the decolonisation of African scholarshi...
© Kwabena Asante-Poku, Coverage Director for Ghana, BII; Chris Chijiutomi, MD and Head of Africa, BII; Albert Essien, GIP Chairman; Jacob Kholi, GIP CEO & Investment Officer; Benson Adenuga, Head of Office and Coverage Director for Nigeria, BII; Dirk Holshausen, Coverage Director for South Central Africa, BII (clockwise) photo supplied

growth capital

Premium badgeGhana: BII bets on GIP to deliver flexible SME financing Ghana’s SME financing gap is estimated at $4.8bn, with sectors such as agriculture and environment significantly lagging behind.
© Ghanaian novelist Kobby Ben Ben.

Diaspora dance

Documenting Ghana’s ‘Year of Return’ in a genre-defying novel ‘No One Dies Yet’, Kobby Ben Ben’s high-energy debut set in Accra, delves into the Ghanaian government’s invitation to the African diaspora.