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Ghana cocoa farmers eye bumper 2025/26 harvest amid persistent challenges
Food Business Africa Magazine
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June 25, 2025
GHANA – Cocoa farmers in Ghana are forecasting a significant increase in harvest volumes for the 2025/2026 season, driven by improved flowering, pod development, and overall plant health. This comes after several seasons of reduced output caused...
Cedi appreciation and its paradoxical impact on Ghana’s Real Estate Sector
Ghana News Agency
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June 25, 2025
Accra, June 25, GNA – In recent months, the Ghanaian Cedi has shown remarkable strength against major foreign currencies, bringing a wave of optimism across sectors that rely heavily on imports. Naturally, the real estate sector—a vital pillar of...
Ghana’s economic resilience undermined by decades of commodity dependence – Prof Bokpin
Joy FM
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June 25, 2025
Economist and finance professor, Prof Godfred Bokpin, has criticised the structural foundation of Ghana’s economy, stating that its over-reliance on primary commodities continues to erode true economic resilience. Speaking at the Joy Business...
Ghana needs US$3bn fuel reserves for 6 months in times of global supply chain disruption – Gabriel Kumi
Joy FM
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June 25, 2025
The Board Chairman of the Chamber of Oil Marketing Companies, Gabriel Kumi has revealed that Ghana will need approximately US$3 billion to secure six months’ worth of fuel reserves to cushion the country against external shocks in times of global...
Ghana must be geopolitically sensitive in global affairs – Ofosu-Dorte
Joy FM
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June 25, 2025
David Ofosu-Dorte, Senior Partner at AB & David Africa, has urged Ghana to adopt a more geopolitically conscious approach to its foreign policy and tactical decisions in light of evolving global power dynamics and shifting alliances. Speaking at...
The Inconvenient Truth with Douglas BOATENG (Prof): When wallets whisper from afar: The silent gravity of foreign financing and its uncanny ability to steer the destiny of nations under the guise of autonomy
Business and Financial Times
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June 25, 2025
In Africa’s theatre of statecraft, few roles appear as powerful and misunderstood as that of the finance minister. With the stroke of a pen, they can reshape lives. Or so it seems. The public often imagines them as custodians of overflowing...
Ghanaian Delegation Attends Global Conference on Foundationa...
Modern Ghana
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A high-powered delegation from Ghana's Ministry of Education and its agencies recently attended a global conference in Washington, D.C. to deliberate on key steps needed to improve the standard of education, with a particular focus on foundational...
Ghana's parliament approves $2.8 billion debt restructuring deal
Africanews
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June 25, 2025
Lawmakers in Ghana have approved a $2.8 billion debt restructuring deal in an effort to ease the country's worst economic crisis in decades. The West African nation signed a memorandum of understanding with 25 creditor nations, including China and...
KIC awards 22 businesses US$200,000 in start-up seed funding
Business and Financial Times
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June 25, 2025
The Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC), in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has awarded a total of US$200,000 in start-up seed funding to 22 teams of young entrepreneurs. The awards were presented during the final pitch session of the 2025...
Emerging African economies in the global world
Business and Financial Times
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June 25, 2025
By Louis GYIMAH In the mid-2020s, the world economy continues to demonstrate unprecedented complexity, interdependency, and velocity. The fragility of global economic systems was highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent supply chain...
CBOD urges NPA to prevent oil tanker MT Marlin Ametrine from berthing on Ghana’s shores
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
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June 25, 2025
By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH The Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) is urging swift action from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to halt the MT Marlin Ametrine’s attempted berthing on Ghana’s shores. According to CBOD, the move will...
Ghana marks 20 Years of anti-human trafficking fight with key gains
The Herald Ghana
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June 25, 2025
By Patrick Biddah Ghana’s fight against human trafficking, has recorded significant progress, especially over the past decade, as the country marks 20 years since the enactment of the Human Trafficking Act, 2005 (Act 694). At a media launch ahead...
Ghana Mining Ban Followed Online Surge in Anti-China Moves
News Central TV
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June 25, 2025
A coordinated online campaign of bot-driven disinformation fuelled anti-Chinese sentiment in the months preceding Ghana’s historic decision to bar foreigners from its domestic gold trade, according to researchers and evidence reported by AFP. The...
Ghana’s Economic Reset: Mahama, Forson, and the Path to Reco...
Modern Ghana
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As Ghana emerges from a period of intense fiscal turbulence, a new trajectory is taking shape—one that signals both economic recovery and institutional renewal. At the forefront of this effort is the administration of President John Dramani...
Ghana’s Railway Revival: From Promises to Progress
Modern Ghana
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Once a source of pride and economic promise, Ghana’s railway network now sits at a pivotal moment. Years of underinvestment, incomplete projects, and infrastructure decay have left much of the system inoperable. Yet hope still glimmers on the...
Probed for bilking taxpayers, suspect checks in from Ghana
City Pulse - Michigan
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June 25, 2025
By Kyle Melinn A professed aerospace manufacturing expert, whom the attorney general is investigating for doing nothing tangible with $2.5 million in grants he received in 2020 and 2021, says he’s in Ghana. And as long as Attorney General Dana...
Our economy has endured many crises – Prof Bokpin
Joy FM
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June 25, 2025
Economist and Finance Professor at the University of Ghana, Professor Godfred Bokpin, has warned that Ghana’s economic resilience has been significantly undermined by a series of crises over the past decade, leading to erratic growth and weakened...
Lack of institutional harmony threatens Ghana’s economic resilience – Ofosu-Dorte warns
Joy FM
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June 25, 2025
Senior Partner at AB & David Africa, David Ofosu-Dorte, has cautioned that the lack of coordination among key state institutions is significantly undermining Ghana’s efforts to build a resilient economy. Speaking at the Joy Business Economic Forum...
Ghana sets up committee to drive labour export strategy under Mahama’s vision
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
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June 25, 2025
The Office of the President of the Republic of Ghana, in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, has officially inaugurated the National Planning Committee for the Ghana Labour Exchange Program (GLEP), marking a major...
Deputy Energy minister backs nuclear power for Ghana’s future
Joy FM
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June 25, 2025
The Deputy Minister for Energy and Green Transition, Richard Gyan-Mensah (MP), has thrown his weight behind nuclear energy as a vital component of the country’s power generation mix. He said this is a decisive move to bolster Ghana’s long-term...