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  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Ghana replaces finance minister who negotiated $3bn IMF bailout

    Dismissal of Ken Ofori-Atta seen as ruling party’s attempt to draw a line under economic debacle

    Ken Ofori-Atta
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    News in-depth
    Ghana’s masked man reveals tactics behind unorthodox presidential bid

    Maverick businessman Nana Kwame Bediako says his headline-grabbing election strategy is anything but a gimmick

    A billboard displaying a masked face and the slogan ‘Leadership for the next generation’, in Accra, Ghana
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    EU foreign policy
    EU gives Ghana 100 military vehicles seized from Libya-bound ship

    Bloc seeks to shore up security in stable west African country with large donation of confiscated equipment

    Josep Borrell, the EU’s chief diplomat, and Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo shaking hands
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Ghana show fills in gaps in art history

    Exhibition curated by Ekow Eshun at Gallery 1957 in Accra hosts 19 artists from Africa and the diaspora

    A painting depicts a group of African people standing or sitting amid a cloistered structure with ornate pillars and a vaulted ceiling
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Darlington Akogo
    Accra provides lessons on how to run an AI start-up

    Scepticism towards artificial intelligence is to be expected but young Africans increasingly realise that can be overcome

    Person looking at the monitor of a computer workstation
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    David Adjaye
    David Adjaye gave names of alleged abuse victims to Ghanaian government

    High-profile architect fights to save reputation after FT investigation

    Sir David Adjaye
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    ReviewAlbums
    African Head Charge: A Trip to Bolgatanga — sounds of rural Ghana

    The duo transport listeners to the country’s northern region on their first album in more than a decade

    Adrian Sherwood and Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah sit on a leather sofa. Sherwood wears a crocodile skull on his head, Noah a patterned kaftan and glasses
  • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
    Deforestation
    Tropical forest loss increased by 10% in 2022

    Tree cover the size of Switzerland destroyed globally last year with Brazil top of the list for largest decline

    Deforested land in the rural city of Humaita, Amazonas
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    Behind the Money podcast18 min listen
    Is Africa’s debt cycle unbreakable?

    One west African country serves as a cautionary tale for the continent’s worsening debt crisis

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Ghana secures $3bn IMF deal after creditors agree to debt restructuring

    China, which is owed $1.5bn, among those that reached agreement on resolving long-running economic crisis

    The IMF logo
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
    Venice exhibition restores African architects to the story of Tropical Modernism

    The V&A shows how a ‘colonial’ style in fact always had diverse influences and practitioners

    A side-on view of a modernist building with washing hanging over many balconies
  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
    The Big Read
    How Ghana’s economy became a cautionary tale for Africa

    The decline of a regional champion rings alarm bells for other countries on the continent that overspent when debt was cheap

    A montage image with a green background, lines of a graph and a protester holding a sign reading, ‘Inflation is too high, why Nana Akufo-Addo?’
  • Monday, 1 May, 2023
    Ghana’s government to stop borrowing from central bank

    ‘Zero financing’ agreement deal with finance ministry helps pave way for $3bn IMF bailout

    Central bank governor Ernest Addison
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    FT SeriesDebt deadlock
    Ghana default puts domestic debt ‘can of worms’ in the spotlight

    IMF insists for first time that a government must deal with local creditors before it will approve a bailout

    Street vendors sell fresh produce at the Makola Market in Accra, Ghana
  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    Medical science
    Oxford malaria vaccine wins first regulatory approval from Ghana

    Research found booster dose of R21 showed efficacy as high as 80% in one group, and 70% in another

    A baby receives a vaccine
  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    Ghana’s bilateral creditors set to clear way for $3bn IMF bailout

    Accra’s finance minister is optimistic foreign governments will agree on debt relief deal

    Pedestrians on a street in Accra
  • 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’

    The headquarters of Ghana’s central bank in Accra
  • 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

    People on a busy street in Ghana
  • 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

    Germany midfielder Kai Havertz
  • 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

    Luis Suárez, left, and Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan after missing his penalty during the shootout in the  2010 World Cup quarter-final match
  • 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

    Nana Akufo-Addo looking pensive with elbow on his table and hand on his mouth.
  • 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

    Ghana’s Mohammed Kudus celebrates scoring the team’s third goal against South Korea
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