{"id":30543,"date":"2026-04-01T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30543"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:46:05","slug":"ghanas-inflation-slows-for-15th-straight-month-in-march","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghanas-inflation-slows-for-15th-straight-month-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s inflation slows for 15th straight month in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s consumer \u200binflation eased for the 15th straight month \u200cin March, slowing to 3.2% year-on-year from 3.3% in February, the statistics service said this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bgold-, oil- and cocoa-producing nation in West \u200bAfrica is emerging from its most severe \u2060economic crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the \u200blowest inflation we have recorded since the rebasing \u200bof the Consumer Price Index in 2021 and it shows a steady and sustained movement towards stability,&#8221; \u200bgovernment statistician Alhassan Iddrisu told a press \u200bconference.<\/p>\n<p>Iddrisu said food prices continued to drive the decline in \u200cinflation \u2060but that prices for non-food items still saw small increases.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol prices had increased 3.1% month-on-month by early March, reflecting the impact \u200bof the Iran \u200bconflict on \u2060global energy prices, and more effects of the conflict will be \u200breflected in the next release, he \u200badded.<\/p>\n<p>African \u2060countries that import most of their petroleum products have imposed sharp fuel price increases that \u2060could \u200bspur inflation across the \u200bcontinent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13483,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-30543","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"African \u2060countries that import most of their petroleum products have imposed sharp fuel price increases","published_date":"","news_description":"African \u2060countries that import most of their petroleum products have imposed sharp fuel price increases","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30544,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30543\/revisions\/30544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}