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New ambitions

Premium badgeTelecel optimistic about new venture in Ghana after Vodafone acquisition, says chairman Telecel Group has completed the 70% shares acquisition in Vodafone Ghana after exchanging contracts and signatures in Accra last month. Taking over th...
© File photo of former Ghanaian president John Mahama, who is vying for Ghana’s top job in 2024. (Amuzujoe/CC/Wikimedia Commons)

third try

Premium badgeGhana: ‘I’ve been tried and tested’, says Mahama at 2024 campaign launch The long-expected declaration came at the beginning of March – former Ghanaian president John Mahama made his open secret an official statement by ann...
© Chairman of the AU and Rwandan President Paul Kagame (L), President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou (C) and Chairperson of AU Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat (R) unveils a plaque of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in Kigali, Rwanda on March 21, 2018 (Xinhua/Gabriel Dusabe) (zxj)

Coffee with

Premium badgeGhana: Mistrust, instability will hinder AfCFTA’s free trade objective, says security chief Political instability in Africa heightened by the growing threat of terrorism and mistrust among nations will continue to slow the continent’s goal of...
Josephine Anan-Ankomah has been appointed head of Ecobank’s Kenyan subsidiary ©Ecobank

'TRUE' ECOBANKER

Premium badgeWhy Ecobank is sending Josephine Anan-Ankomah to Kenya As CEO of Ecobank Kenya, the experienced Ghanaian banker will lead the group’s largest regional zone, a position generally given to veterans of the pa...

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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© File photo of Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool

Presidential presentation

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things about Akufo-Addo’s 2023 State of the Nation agenda After going back on his vow not to return under an IMF programme in July 2022 amidst the country’s dwindling economic fortunes, Ghana’s President Akuf...
© Ghanaian-Ivorian director Pascal Aka (photo: twitter)

getting started

Ghana: Why Pascal Aka does not want to be put in a box  Pascal Aka made the Afro-noir epic, ‘Gold Coast Lounge’ – now streaming on Netflix – to reimagine the idea of African cinema. He tells The Africa Repo...
© Relatives of late Ghanaian soccer player, Christian Atsu, 31, who died in the earthquake in Turkey, wait at the Kotoka International Airport to receive his remains. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

honourable man

Ghana: Christian Atsu remembered as a footballer and humanitarian News of the death of international footballer Christian Atsu has hit the football world, while in his home country of Ghana he is being mourned and ce...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking during a plenary session at the Russian-Africa Summit of Sochi (Russia), October 23, 2019. © Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/AFP

weaving new partnerships

Behind the scenes of the preparation of the Russia-Africa summit Six months from the Saint Petersburg summit, where African and Russian journalists and influencers were scheduled to come together for an online webin...
© Runaway inflation has left Ghanaians struggling to meet basic needs. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Groundhog Day

Premium badgeNew IMF programme for Ghana won’t help any more than the last seventeen   Ghana has had 17 IMF programmes since 1966. There’s no reason to think that the next one will put the economy on a sustainable path.
© President of Ghana, Nana Akuffo Addo, stands for the national anthem during the celebrations for Ghana 65th Independence Day at the Cape Coast Stadium on March 6, 2022. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP)

elevated risks

Lessons for Africa from Ghana’s strange debt ‘exchange’ After five extensions since its initial launch on 5 December 2022, the government aims to tie all remaining loose ends of Ghana’s strange domestic deb...