GHANA should introduce measures that will help halve the cost of borrowing or risk losing investments in agriculture and agroprocessing to neighbouring countries, the Team Leader of the West Africa Food Markets (WAFM) Programme, Dr Terry Lacey, has observed. Unlike Ghana where lending rates hover around 22 per cent, interest rates in Nigeria, Burkina Faso… Read more

Nigeria, with half-a-billion people by mid-century, offers a post-Brexit boom for British investment and trade. But UK traditional Anglophone markets in Nigeria and Ghana are next door to the Francophone Sahel, with insurgency growing from Mauritania to Mali, via Burkina Faso to Niger, North East Nigeria and Cameroon. The prospects for traditional UK West African… Read more