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1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Yinka Ibukun |Ekow Dontoh

Since President John Mahama took office on Jan. 7, his comments on the proposed legislation have been vague enough that supporters of the bill have interpreted them to mean he will take steps to push it through, while critics expect the opposite. (Bloomberg) -- A bill that would make it illegal to be anything but heterosexual in Ghana has been reintroduced in parliament with stronger backing than it got the last time lawmakers tried to get it passed into law.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Yinka Ibukun

A Checkers supermarket, operated by Shoprite Holdings Ltd., in Johannesburg. (Bloomberg) -- Shoprite Holdings Ltd., the largest retailer in Africa, spent a record amount with businesses partly or fully owned by Black women last year as it ramped up efforts to diversify its supplier base. The Cape Town-based supermarket chain said it bought stock worth 18.3 billion rand ($941 million) from firms in which Black women hold at least a 30% stake, up 8.5% from the year before.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Moses Mozart Dzawu |Yinka Ibukun

Ghana’s inflation slowed for the second straight month, providing room for the central bank to cut interest rates for the first time since September. Consumer price growth eased slightly to 23.1%, compared with 23.5% in January, Government Statistician Samuel Kobina Annim told reporters in the capital, Accra, on Wednesday. Prices rose 1.3% in the month, he said.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Yinka Ibukun

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1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Ekow Dontoh |Yinka Ibukun

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