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Ghana News
Would you like to access news/blog content published by sources located in Ghana?
Code example
If you'd like to make a REST call, then make a following POST request:
Endpoint /api/v1/article/getArticles
Request body
{
"sourceLocationUri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana",
"resultType": "articles",
"apiKey": "API_KEY"
}
If you'd like instead to do a GET request then call:
/api/v1/article/getArticles?sourceLocationUri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGhana&resultType=articles&apiKey=API_KEY
Example of JSON response
Below is an example JSON object that you would receive as the result of the request. You can retrieve also additional properties such as concepts, categories, source details, etc. by specifying additional parameters in the request as described on the documentation page.
{
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"title": "KPA, coastal counties line up Kenya's first blue bond",
"body": "Capital market stakeholders, coastal counties and Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) are in a race against time to structure and market the country's inaugural blue bond before the close of 2026.\n\nA blue bond refers to specialised debt instrument raised by either a corporate or government with the proceeds dedicated to financing of marine, ocean-based and coastal resilience-based projects.\n\nAccording to officials of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), the planned issuance will be the first of a multi-tranche series whose aggregate ticket size for capital raise stands at $300 million (Sh38.83 billion) under the Kenya Go Blue Green Bond Programme. The bonds are to be denominated in Kenya shillings.\n\n\"The transaction is being developed around bankable blue economy projects involving coastal counties, Kenya Ports Authority and related value chains,\" NSE's chief officer in charge of Strategy, Risk and Compliance Irungu Waggema said on the sidelines of the ongoing Our Ocean Conference taking place in Mombasa.\n\n\"The final structure is still under consideration but the likely approach is a phased issuance aligned to project readiness and investor appetite.\" Capital markets players are keen to have the debut blue bond go to market before the close of 2026, allowing it to ride on the recent wave of corporate debt issuances which have seen Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company (KMRC) raise Sh3 billion through an eight-year sustainability linked bond priced at 12.2 percent which attracted bids worth Sh9.38 billion.\n\nIn November 2025, Safaricom Plc also issued a similar instrument which raised Sh20 billion after attracting bids worth Sh41.6 billion for a five-year debt instrument priced at 10.4 percent.\n\n\"The tenor of the issuance will ultimately be determined by the underlying projects and investor feedback, but we are anticipating medium to long-term capital consistent with infrastructure and sustainability financing requirements,\" Waggema says.\n\n\"The immediate focus is on project preparation, investor engagement, transaction structuring and anchor investor mobilisation. We are looking forward to closing this because it makes a great opportunity both for Kenyan and international investors.\"\n\nThrough this, Kenya will be looking join Seychelles, Namibia and Gabon as the countries in Africa which have had issuance of blue bonds.\n\nSeychelles issued the world's first sovereign blue bond in 2018 raising $15 million (Sh1.9 billion) in a transaction that was backed by a guarantee from the World Bank and targeted at improving the economy's fisheries management and providing support for the ocean economy.\n\nNamibia's Kelp Blue raised $20 million (Sh2.6 billion) in 2024 marking Africa's first corporate blue bond with the proceeds earmarked for the financing of the expansion of forests along the country's coastline.",
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"url": "https://www.ghanamma.com/2026/06/16/when-africa-turns-on-itself-what-the-au-must-confront-before-afcfta-can-deliver/",
"title": "When Africa Turns on Itself: What the AU Must Confront Before AfCFTA Can Deliver",
"body": "A two-hour flight from Accra to Dakar costs nearly the same as flying to London. A Ghanaian trader crossing into Burkina Faso spends more time at the border than she does on the road. A Cameroonian shop owner who has built his business in Durban for twenty years can have it dismantled in an afternoon by a mob, while the state watches.\n\nThese are not isolated inconveniences. They are symptoms of the same structural failure. And from June 24 to 27, 2026, when African heads of state convene the African Union's (AU) Mid-Year Coordination Meeting in El Alamein, Egypt, they will spend considerable time celebrating the African Continental Free Trade Area as the continent's most promising vehicle for shared prosperity.\n\nThey will not be wrong. But they will be incomplete.\n\nBecause AfCFTA cannot deliver what it promises if Africa keeps attempting to move goods without moving people. And right now, the continent is not only failing to move people freely. It is turning on itself.\n\nWhat AfCFTA Promises and What It Requires\n\nThe African Continental Free Trade Area is, on paper, one of the most consequential economic agreements in the world. Fully implemented, it would create a single market of 1.4 billion people, the largest in terms of the number of participating countries in history. The AU estimates that free movement under AfCFTA could increase intra-African trade by over 50%. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa projects it could lift 30 million people out of extreme poverty by 2035.\n\nThose projections are real. The potential is real.\n\nBut every serious analyst of regional integration knows what Africa's leaders are reluctant to say aloud: trade agreements do not work in isolation. They require the free movement of people to function. Entrepreneurs, traders, professionals, and workers need to cross borders to build the supply chains, service networks, and business relationships that make trade come alive. The European Union understood this instinctively. The 1985 Schengen Agreement did not follow economic integration. It accompanied it. People and goods moved together because that is the only way integration works.\n\nAfrica is trying to do it the other way around. It is building the trade architecture while leaving its people behind checkpoints, visa queues, and now, in some cases, the threat of violence.\n\nThe Mobility Gap at the Heart of AfCFTA\n\nThe numbers are unambiguous. According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), over 21 million Africans already live in another African country, making intra-African migration one of the largest internal migration systems in the world. Nearly 80% of all African migration happens within the continent, not toward Europe or North America. Africa is already a continent in motion.\n\nYet the 2025 Africa Visa Openness Index recorded a significant setback. The share of trips requiring a prior visa rose from 47.1% to 51.1%, exceeding half of all travel scenarios for the first time in years. Visa-on-arrival availability fell to its lowest level yet. Four countries that previously granted visas on arrival shifted to requiring prior applications, moving in the opposite direction from AfCFTA's logic.\n\nMeanwhile, the AU's Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, adopted in 2018, has been ratified by only four countries. It needs fifteen to enter into force. The African passport, launched with a ceremony in 2016, remains limited to diplomats and senior officials. A decade after its symbolic debut, ordinary Africans cannot use it.\n\nSome countries are showing what is possible. Benin, The Gambia, Rwanda, and Seychelles welcome all African passport holders without visas. Ghana implemented full visa-free entry for Africans in January 2025. These are not small gestures. They are demonstrations that the political will exists somewhere on the continent, even when it is absent at the continental level.\n\nBut AfCFTA cannot be built on the leadership of four countries while major economies, including Egypt, Algeria, and Kenya, rank in the bottom ten for visa openness. A free trade area in which people cannot freely move is not a free trade area. It is a series of bilateral arrangements dressed up as continental ambition.\n\nThe Human Cost That the Trade Agenda Cannot Ignore\n\nWhat makes the mobility gap more than an economic problem is what has been happening in South Africa. Because the AfCFTA's promise rests on the assumption that African migrants and traders will find safety, dignity, and legal protection in the countries where they live and work. That assumption is being tested and failing.\n\nIn April and May 2026, a citizen-led movement called \"March and March\" organised demonstrations against undocumented migrants across Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Durban, with violent and sometimes fatal results. The movement targeted African and Asian foreign nationals, with an inadequate response from police and state authorities. Nigeria threatened retaliatory measures and began repatriating hundreds of its nationals. Ghana repatriated over 1,000 citizens and provided them with psychosocial support. Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, formally called on the AU to place xenophobia on the summit agenda, describing it as a direct threat to continental unity, trade, and human rights.\n\nThis is not a new story in South Africa. It follows the 2008 attacks that killed over 60 people and displaced 100,000. It follows the 2015 violence that required military intervention. It follows vigilante groups in 2025, blocking migrants from accessing public health facilities. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has described this pattern as a grave violation of the African Charter. The pattern continues regardless.\n\nBut the specific relevance to AfCFTA cannot be overstated. South Africa is the continent's most industrialised economy and one of AfCFTA's most significant anchor markets. It is where intra-African commerce is supposed to scale. It is where African traders, professionals, and entrepreneurs are supposed to build the supply chains that make continental trade real. If an African migrant cannot safely live and work in Durban, AfCFTA's promise does not reach them. The trade framework exists. The safety net does not.\n\nWhat El Alamein Must Actually Decide\n\nThe AU's 2026 agenda rightly centres on water, sanitation, and AfCFTA implementation. These are serious priorities, and they deserve serious treatment. But implementation without addressing the conditions that make implementation possible is not a plan. It is a projection.\n\nThree decisions would make El Alamein matter for AfCFTA in concrete terms.\n\nFirst, ratify the Free Movement Protocol. Every head of state in El Alamein should leave with a binding national commitment to a ratification timeline. The protocol has existed for eight years and has four signatures. There is no technical reason for that number. There is only political reluctance. A trade agreement whose signatories will not allow each other's citizens to move freely is a contradiction the AU can no longer afford to paper over with communiqués.\n\nSecond, establish a continental anti-xenophobia enforcement framework. AfCFTA requires that African traders and workers be protected in the countries where they operate. The AU must define xenophobic violence as a continental security and trade integrity issue, not merely a domestic law enforcement matter. Member states must face real consequences, including trade-related mechanisms, when they fail to protect African nationals on their soil. Ghana's foreign minister has already made the formal call. El Alamein is where it must be answered.\n\nThird, connect water and sanitation investment to AfCFTA's implementation logic. This year's AU theme on water and sanitation is not separate from trade. The communities most dependent on AfCFTA's expansion, smallholder farmers, cross-border traders, and women-led market enterprises, are often the same communities without reliable water access. Investment in water infrastructure in those communities is an investment in the human foundation of trade. The AU should say so explicitly and build that link into how AfCFTA's implementation plans are designed.\n\nThe Larger Question\n\nAfrica's share of global GDP has stagnated at 3.1% for two decades. Ninety per cent of its exports consist of unprocessed goods. The continent is rich in resources, young in population, and increasingly connected by digital infrastructure. What it keeps failing to build is the institutional architecture to convert that potential into shared prosperity.\n\nAfCFTA is the most serious attempt to change that. Its existence is worth defending. Its implementation is worth demanding. But it will not deliver on its promise if the people it is supposed to serve cannot safely cross the borders it claims to be opening.\n\nThe EU is not a perfect model. But on the core question of whether a continent can link the movement of goods to the movement of people, create binding rules, and enforce them, Europe answered yes.\n\nAfrica keeps separating the two and wondering why the sum is less than its parts.\n\nEl Alamein is not a ceremonial occasion. It is a decision-making meeting. The AfCFTA agenda gives African leaders a framework. The xenophobia crisis in South Africa and the stalled Free Movement Protocol give them an urgent, specific test of whether that framework means anything beyond the documents that contain it.\n\nThe question is not whether Africa can build a continental economy.\n\nThe question is whether Africa's leaders are prepared to make the political choices that would allow it to.\n\nThat responsibility cannot be deferred to the next summit. Because the traders crossing borders right now, the shop owners building livelihoods in cities that may not protect them, the migrants moving in one of the world's largest internal migration systems without legal recognition or protection, they are not waiting for El Alamein to tell them what is possible.\n\nThey are already doing it.\n\nThe AU's job is to catch up.",
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They have failed to keep a clean sheet during that period.\n\nThat weakness could have played directly into Partey's strengths.\n\nHis ability to deliver accurate forward passes from deep positions would have provided opportunities for Ghana's pacey attackers, particularly Antoine Semenyo and Ernest Nuamah.\n\nPanama generally favour a possession-based attacking style, often committing numbers forward.\n\nSuch an approach can leave spaces between midfield and defence and precisely the areas Partey excels at exploiting.\n\nHis threat from set-pieces would also have represented another potential weapon against a defence that has struggled to remain organised under pressure.\n\nCan Ghana cope without Partey?\n\nThe challenge for Portuguese coach Queiroz is not simply replacing a player but replacing a profile.\n\nElisha Owusu offers discipline and positional awareness but lacks Partey's range of passing. 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It's very difficult to play at this pace in today's football.\"\n\nThose comments suggest Ghana may not be losing the peak version of Partey.\n\nYet international football often tells a different story.\n\nDespite injuries, legal distractions and reduced club minutes, Partey continued to perform for Ghana whenever called upon.\n\nThat resilience is one reason his absence is generating such concern ahead of the Panama encounter.\n\nAnalysis\n\nGhana can still beat Panama without Thomas Partey.\n\nThe Black Stars possess attacking quality, athleticism and enough experience to compete.\n\nBut they will undoubtedly lose some of the control, composure and midfield authority that Partey has provided for almost a decade.\n\nHis absence removes a player capable of dictating tempo, breaking opposition pressure and turning defence into attack with a single pass.\n\nAgainst a Panama side that concedes regularly but also poses attacking threats of its own, those qualities could have been decisive.\n\nFor now, there is clarity that Partey will not feature and, while it is a real dampener for Ghana, it presents an opportunity for others to rise to the occasion.",
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"body": "A two-hour flight from Accra to Dakar costs nearly the same as flying to London. A Ghanaian trader crossing into Burkina Faso spends more time at the border than she does on the road. A Cameroonian shop owner who has built his business in Durban for twenty years can have it dismantled in an afternoon by a mob, while the state watches.\n\nThese are not isolated inconveniences. They are symptoms of the same structural failure. And from June 24 to 27, 2026, when African heads of state convene the African Union's (AU) Mid-Year Coordination Meeting in El Alamein, Egypt, they will spend considerable time celebrating the African Continental Free Trade Area as the continent's most promising vehicle for shared prosperity.\n\nThey will not be wrong. But they will be incomplete.\n\nBecause AfCFTA cannot deliver what it promises if Africa keeps attempting to move goods without moving people. And right now, the continent is not only failing to move people freely. It is turning on itself.\n\nWhat AfCFTA Promises and What It Requires\n\nThe African Continental Free Trade Area is, on paper, one of the most consequential economic agreements in the world. Fully implemented, it would create a single market of 1.4 billion people, the largest in terms of the number of participating countries in history. The AU estimates that free movement under AfCFTA could increase intra-African trade by over 50%. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa projects it could lift 30 million people out of extreme poverty by 2035.\n\nThose projections are real. The potential is real.\n\nBut every serious analyst of regional integration knows what Africa's leaders are reluctant to say aloud: trade agreements do not work in isolation. They require the free movement of people to function. Entrepreneurs, traders, professionals, and workers need to cross borders to build the supply chains, service networks, and business relationships that make trade come alive. The European Union understood this instinctively. The 1985 Schengen Agreement did not follow economic integration. It accompanied it. People and goods moved together because that is the only way integration works.\n\nAfrica is trying to do it the other way around. It is building the trade architecture while leaving its people behind checkpoints, visa queues, and now, in some cases, the threat of violence.\n\nThe Mobility Gap at the Heart of AfCFTA\n\nThe numbers are unambiguous. According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), over 21 million Africans already live in another African country, making intra-African migration one of the largest internal migration systems in the world. Nearly 80% of all African migration happens within the continent, not toward Europe or North America. Africa is already a continent in motion.\n\nYet the 2025 Africa Visa Openness Index recorded a significant setback. The share of trips requiring a prior visa rose from 47.1% to 51.1%, exceeding half of all travel scenarios for the first time in years. Visa-on-arrival availability fell to its lowest level yet. Four countries that previously granted visas on arrival shifted to requiring prior applications, moving in the opposite direction from AfCFTA's logic.\n\nMeanwhile, the AU's Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, adopted in 2018, has been ratified by only four countries. It needs fifteen to enter into force. The African passport, launched with a ceremony in 2016, remains limited to diplomats and senior officials. A decade after its symbolic debut, ordinary Africans cannot use it.\n\nSome countries are showing what is possible. Benin, The Gambia, Rwanda, and Seychelles welcome all African passport holders without visas. Ghana implemented full visa-free entry for Africans in January 2025. These are not small gestures. They are demonstrations that the political will exists somewhere on the continent, even when it is absent at the continental level.\n\nBut AfCFTA cannot be built on the leadership of four countries while major economies, including Egypt, Algeria, and Kenya, rank in the bottom ten for visa openness. A free trade area in which people cannot freely move is not a free trade area. It is a series of bilateral arrangements dressed up as continental ambition.\n\nThe Human Cost That the Trade Agenda Cannot Ignore\n\nWhat makes the mobility gap more than an economic problem is what has been happening in South Africa. Because the AfCFTA's promise rests on the assumption that African migrants and traders will find safety, dignity, and legal protection in the countries where they live and work. That assumption is being tested and failing.\n\nIn April and May 2026, a citizen-led movement called \"March and March\" organised demonstrations against undocumented migrants across Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Durban, with violent and sometimes fatal results. The movement targeted African and Asian foreign nationals, with an inadequate response from police and state authorities. Nigeria threatened retaliatory measures and began repatriating hundreds of its nationals. Ghana repatriated over 1,000 citizens and provided them with psychosocial support. Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, formally called on the AU to place xenophobia on the summit agenda, describing it as a direct threat to continental unity, trade, and human rights.\n\nThis is not a new story in South Africa. It follows the 2008 attacks that killed over 60 people and displaced 100,000. It follows the 2015 violence that required military intervention. It follows vigilante groups in 2025, blocking migrants from accessing public health facilities. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has described this pattern as a grave violation of the African Charter. The pattern continues regardless.\n\nBut the specific relevance to AfCFTA cannot be overstated. South Africa is the continent's most industrialised economy and one of AfCFTA's most significant anchor markets. It is where intra-African commerce is supposed to scale. It is where African traders, professionals, and entrepreneurs are supposed to build the supply chains that make continental trade real. If an African migrant cannot safely live and work in Durban, AfCFTA's promise does not reach them. The trade framework exists. The safety net does not.\n\nWhat El Alamein Must Actually Decide\n\nThe AU's 2026 agenda rightly centres on water, sanitation, and AfCFTA implementation. These are serious priorities, and they deserve serious treatment. But implementation without addressing the conditions that make implementation possible is not a plan. It is a projection.\n\nThree decisions would make El Alamein matter for AfCFTA in concrete terms.\n\nFirst, ratify the Free Movement Protocol. Every head of state in El Alamein should leave with a binding national commitment to a ratification timeline. The protocol has existed for eight years and has four signatures. There is no technical reason for that number. There is only political reluctance. A trade agreement whose signatories will not allow each other's citizens to move freely is a contradiction the AU can no longer afford to paper over with communiqués.\n\nSecond, establish a continental anti-xenophobia enforcement framework. AfCFTA requires that African traders and workers be protected in the countries where they operate. The AU must define xenophobic violence as a continental security and trade integrity issue, not merely a domestic law enforcement matter. Member states must face real consequences, including trade-related mechanisms, when they fail to protect African nationals on their soil. Ghana's foreign minister has already made the formal call. El Alamein is where it must be answered.\n\nThird, connect water and sanitation investment to AfCFTA's implementation logic. This year's AU theme on water and sanitation is not separate from trade. The communities most dependent on AfCFTA's expansion, smallholder farmers, cross-border traders, and women-led market enterprises, are often the same communities without reliable water access. Investment in water infrastructure in those communities is an investment in the human foundation of trade. The AU should say so explicitly and build that link into how AfCFTA's implementation plans are designed.\n\nThe Larger Question\n\nAfrica's share of global GDP has stagnated at 3.1% for two decades. Ninety per cent of its exports consist of unprocessed goods. The continent is rich in resources, young in population, and increasingly connected by digital infrastructure. What it keeps failing to build is the institutional architecture to convert that potential into shared prosperity.\n\nAfCFTA is the most serious attempt to change that. Its existence is worth defending. Its implementation is worth demanding. But it will not deliver on its promise if the people it is supposed to serve cannot safely cross the borders it claims to be opening.\n\nThe EU is not a perfect model. But on the core question of whether a continent can link the movement of goods to the movement of people, create binding rules, and enforce them, Europe answered yes.\n\nAfrica keeps separating the two and wondering why the sum is less than its parts.\n\nEl Alamein is not a ceremonial occasion. It is a decision-making meeting. The AfCFTA agenda gives African leaders a framework. The xenophobia crisis in South Africa and the stalled Free Movement Protocol give them an urgent, specific test of whether that framework means anything beyond the documents that contain it.\n\nThe question is not whether Africa can build a continental economy.\n\nThe question is whether Africa's leaders are prepared to make the political choices that would allow it to.\n\nThat responsibility cannot be deferred to the next summit. Because the traders crossing borders right now, the shop owners building livelihoods in cities that may not protect them, the migrants moving in one of the world's largest internal migration systems without legal recognition or protection, they are not waiting for El Alamein to tell them what is possible.\n\nThey are already doing it.\n\nThe AU's job is to catch up.",
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