Ghana

Ghana's Boom Bursts

In Ghana workers marching through the capital and other cities were showing their dismay at recent price hikes and taxes, which have increased the cost of electricity by 59%, water by 67% and fuel by 28%. At the end of last year, inflation in Ghana was running at 17.7%.  “We are drumming home our concerns generally,” says Kofi Asamoah, secretary general of the Trade Union Congress, “to let the public and government know how serious we are.” More

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