Ghana

© Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo addresses the Investing in African Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa February 5, 2019. REUTERS

multi-billion investments

Premium badgeGhana: Can the private sector deliver the renewable energy dream? In the face of the global energy transition and rising demand for renewable sources, Ghana is raising $562bn in investments over the next five decades...
© Flight operators scan a package for delivery amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Accra, Ghana April 16, 2020. Picture taken April 16, 2020. Zipline/Handout via REUTERS

Big plans

Premium badgeGhana: Zipline builds on Jumia pilot to diversify into home deliveries Zipline Ghana’s planned expansion into e-commerce and home deliveries will take lessons from the company’s recent pilot programme with Jumia, says cou...
© Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they pose for photograph during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing September 3, 2018. Andy Wong/POOL Via REUTERS

Great Wall of Debt

Premium badgeGhana: China debts, pension funds cloud prospects for IMF bailout Lack of transparency over Ghana’s debts to China, and the need for pension funds to take part in domestic debt restructuring mean that getting a bailo...
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Sofa time

Ghana: Cassava Republic presents ‘Crossing The Stream’ by Elizabeth-Irene Baitie Each week, we will bring you an excerpt from a book to be published by the Nigeria-based Cassava Republic, a renowned publisher on the continent leadi...

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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© Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s finance minister, speaks with Stephane Roudet, IMF Mission Chief for Ghana, during a news conference in Accra, Ghana December 13, 2022. REUTERS

Haircut time

Ghana: IMF urges ‘swift’ action from creditors meeting next week Ghana’s creditors are expected to meet next week to discuss a debt restructuring that could pave the way for a $3bn bailout from the International Mon...
© Ghanaian businessman Joseph Siaw Agyepong (photo: supplied)

‘DIRTY’ business

Premium badgeGhana: Meet Joseph Siaw Agyepong, the garbage collector with the fat purse In the mid-noughties, Ghana had a problem, one that partly inspired a state-run anti-indiscipline campaign. The West African nation’s largest cities, ...
File photo of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo. © Nipah Dennis / AFP.

separation anxiety

Premium badgeGhana gets tough on secessionists two years after major raid Ghana has served notice to a revolutionary separatist movement seeking to forge a new West African nation by jailing five of its members for 25 years ...
© A driver recharges the battery of his Tesla car, at a Tesla Super Charging station, in a petrol station on the highway in Chateauvillain, France, February 20, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Li-ion Roar

Premium badgeAtlantic Lithium plans Ghana stock market listing as it gears up to supply Elon Musk’s Tesla Atlantic Lithium will list on Ghana’s stock market as it seeks local investors for its project which will supply electric vehicles made by Elon Musk’s...

who's who

Premium badgeGhana’s 2024 presidential race: Who has jumped on John Mahama’s comeback train? John Mahama believes he has unfinished business with Ghana and his wide network of friends and family across the country will play an important role i...
© An informal gold miner in a gold mining pit at the site of Nsuaem-Top, Ghana. (Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

huge losses

Premium badgeGhana: Violent attacks on mining companies could hamper sector growth An upsurge in violent clashes in Ghana between mining companies and illegal small-scale miners in their host communities in the last six months could ...