With Ghana’s 2026 Mid-Year Budget Review now just a few weeks away, the organized private sector, represented by the various key business associations, has begun concerted lobbying of government’s economic …
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ClimateInvestmentsNationalTop Story
Finance Ministry credits GH¢350m to flood relief and mitigation accounts
The Ministry of Finance has credited the designated National Disaster Management Committee accounts with GH¢350 million from the Contingency Fund to finance emergency flood relief and mitigation measures following severe …
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EconomyNationalNewsTop Story
Inflation rises to 5.3% in June as transport, services and domestic cost pressures drive uptick
Ghana’s year-on-year inflation rate increased to 5.3 percent in June 2026, up from 3.7 percent in May, marking the third consecutive monthly increase since inflation fell to a low of …
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EconomyEnergyNationalOil & GasTop Story
OMCs begin fuel price cuts as GOIL reduces petrol to GH¢12.79 per litre
Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have started implementing fuel price reductions for the first pricing window of July, with market leader GOIL leading the adjustments after slashing the pump price of …
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Banking & FinanceEconomyInvestmentsNationalTop Story
Borrowers face tighter, higher cost financing conditions
The launch of Ghana’s Sustainable Finance Roadmap on June 30, 2026 represents a major evolution from Ghana’s Sustainable Banking Principles introduced in 2019. Whereas those principles largely encouraged banks to …
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ClimateInvestmentsNationalTop Story
President authorises GH¢300m emergency flood relief, mitigation fund after heavy rains
President John Dramani Mahama has directed the immediate release of GH¢300 million from the Contingency Fund to support emergency flood relief operations and finance mitigation measures following severe flooding in …
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ClimateHousingNationalNewsTop Story
NADMO orders residents to immediately vacate Weija Dam spillway areas
NADMO Weija-Gbawe has issued an urgent appeal to all residents living along the Weija Dam spillway to move to higher ground immediately, as the dam’s management opens its spill gates …
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The torrential rains that swept across large parts of southern Ghana on Monday, June 29, are likely to trigger one of the busiest claims periods for Ghana’s non-life insurance industry …
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AgricultureCommodityNationalTop Story
Gov’t attributes inherited cocoa sector challenges to supplier debt
The Deputy Minister of Finance, Thomas Ampem Nyarko, has attributed the Ghana Cocoa Board’s (COCOBOD) outstanding debts to fertiliser and agrochemical suppliers to longstanding financial and structural challenges within the …
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Ghana’s inflation is expected to average 12.8 percent in 2027, up sharply from a projected 6.0 percent in 2026, as easing exchange rate gains, weather-related risks and external economic pressures …
