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Ghana

  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Opposition leader wins Ghana election as vice-president concedes

    Early votes show decisive rejection of incumbent party after years of economic turmoil

    John Mahama
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    FT SeriesWhere to go this autumn? The HTSI travel guide is here to help you make that booking
    Surf’s up! Riding the waves with the boarders of Busua

    A new community is growing in a tiny fishing village in Ghana. Can they go global?

    Surfer Prince at Busua beach in western Ghana
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    ObituaryHerman Chinery-Hesse
    Herman Chinery-Hesse, tech entrepreneur, 1963-2024

    He was an innovator who sought to tailor software to African realities

    Herman Chinery-Hesse
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Ghana to exit default after two years with debt restructuring

    Deal to reduce Accra’s debt load by nearly $5bn could pave way for return to markets

    President Nana Akufo-Addo
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
    Public health in global south faces vaccine cold storage challenge

    Issue hampers effort to exploit mRNA technology’s promise in tackling deadly viral outbreaks

    A female healthcare worker prepares a vaccine. Behind her in a chair is a woman and her baby
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    The new Grand Tour

    Where a young westerner should go to understand their century

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Cocoa prices tumble as African crop fears ease

    Hedge funds cut bullish bets as seasonal rains improve production outlook in Ghana

    A farmer holds an open, ripe cocoa pod on a farm outside of Kumasi, Ghana
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    Ghana strikes deal with bondholders to end debt default

    Once confirmed, agreement will lower value of $13bn of international bonds by nearly 40%

    Crowds of customers make their way through a food market covered with colourful umbrellas in Accra
  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    Ghana’s debt restructuring deal falters after IMF rebuff

    Fund says deal reached with holders of $13bn of foreign bonds does not reduce debt load sufficiently

    Food market in Accra
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Cocoa surpasses $10,000 a tonne as shortages squeeze ‘out of control’ market

    Poor harvests in critical production areas in west Africa double global prices in two months

    An Ivory Coast cocoa farmer holds beans
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Is private equity actually worth it?

    A look at whether the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund should add private equity to its mandate

  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    African economy
    Anti-LGBT+ law puts Ghana’s IMF and World Bank funding at risk, finance ministry warns

    Department says bill could derail billions of dollars in multilateral financing if signed into law

    A same-sex couple at a meeting in Ghana
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    The Big Read
    Why the cost of chocolate will keep rising

    Speculation, climate change and under-investment are combining to push up the price of the confection

    Close up of a farmer’s hand holding a cut open cocoa pod
  • 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?’
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