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Ashanti Business Owners Welcome Reduction in Reference Rate
The Ashanti Business Owners Association (ABOA) has commended the Bank of Ghana and the Ghana Association of Banks for their...
Businesses Mount Pressure for Fresh Rate Cut as Inflation Falls to 3.3%
Expectations are mounting across Ghana’s private sector for another cut in the policy rate by the Bank of Ghana, as...
Inflation drops to 3.3% in February 2026
Year-on-year inflation rate eased further to 3.3 percent in February 2026, marking the 14th consecutive monthly decline and the lowest...
Ivory Coast Reassures Farmers over Purchase of Excess Cocoa Stock Following Strike Threats
Ivory Coast has given assurances that it will continue a programme to buy a residual stock of 100,000 metric tons...
Olam Agri launches 2026 healthy baker campaign for 10,000 Ghanaian bakers
Olam Agri Ghana has officially launched the 2026 edition of its flagship Healthy Baker Campaign, an annual initiative that has...
Beyond survival: Pineapple emerges as a climate-smart lifeline for farmers in Northern Ghana
Across vast stretches of northern Ghana, smallholder farmers cultivate cereals, legumes and tuber crops beneath an increasingly unpredictable sky. Farming…
Zenith Bank rolls out maiden SME Business Empowerment Lab to support growth of Ghanaian Enterprises
Zenith Bank Ghana has rolled out the maiden edition of the Zenith SME Business Empowerment Lab, a quarterly webinar series,...
Africa’s capital markets are moving again. Here’s how
Kenyan beverages giant East African Breweries recently refinanced an existing KES11billion corporate bond through a medium-term note priced at 11.8…
Over 70% of Uganda Hass avocados rejected for export
Farmers under the Busoga Avocado Farmers Cooperative Union (BAFCU) report losses after more than 70% of their Hass avocado harvest...
Kenyan macadamia growers seek lift on raw export ban
Macadamia farmers in Kirinyaga County, Kenya, are calling on the government to lift the ban on the export of raw...