Ghana's inflation slows for 11th straight month in November

ACCRA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Ghana's consumer inflation slowed for the 11th consecutive month, falling to 6.3% year on year in ...
Al Jazeera English

Ghana elections: Who is running and what’s at stake?

Voters in the West African nation of Ghana are heading to the polls on Saturday to decide the country’s next parliament and president in tense, tightly contested elections that come amid biting ...
The Journal Gazette

Exploring culture, history in Ghana

The biggest luggage pieces that had been packed onto a flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International are unloaded and ...
NPR

A new home for the African diaspora in Ghana stirs tensions

ASEBU, Ghana — Nestled in the sleepy town of Asebu, a few miles inland from the Atlantic along Ghana's Cape Coast, lies a serene 5,000 acre rural settlement. A mud road at the entrance weaves ...
BBC

How Ghana's central bank lost $5bn in one year

Ghana - once touted as a trailblazing African economic success story - is facing an unprecedented financial crisis. This week, hundreds of protestors took to the streets in the capital Accra, ...
The New York Times

Ghana’s Voters Look for Leader to Fix a Broken Economy

Ghanaians voting on Saturday are confronted with a choice familiar to Americans: Return a one-term former president to office, or promote the vice president, at a time when anger over the economy is ...
The Daily Beast

How W.E.B. Du Bois Found His Final Resting Place in Ghana

ACCRA, Ghana — At the end of a globetrotting career that took U.S. civil-rights pioneer and author W.E.B. Du Bois from his home in America to Germany, the Soviet Union, China, and many other ...
BBC

Stevie on the Wonder of becoming a Ghanaian citizen

Signed, sealed and delivered: Stevie Wonder was all smiles as he was granted citizenship by Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo (R) Legendary singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is officially Ghanaian. On ...
The New York Times

Crisis and Bailout: The Tortuous Cycle Stalking Nations in Debt

The government of Ghana is essentially bankrupt, and has turned to the International Monetary Fund for its 17th financial rescue since 1957. The Makola market in Accra, Ghana. Inflation is above ...
Human Rights Watch

Ghana: LGBT Activists Face Hardships After Detention

(Johannesburg) – Arbitrary arrests and detention of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Ghana, and a proposed draconian anti-LGBT bill are causing serious economic hardship and ...

Ghana’s Economic Growth Downshifts Slightly in Third Quarter

Ghana’s economy expanded at a slower pace in the third quarter as the contribution from the services and industrial sectors ...