{"id":33874,"date":"2026-05-06T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33874"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:39:20","slug":"ghana-inflation-rises-in-april-for-first-time-since-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghana-inflation-rises-in-april-for-first-time-since-december-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana inflation rises in April for first time since December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s consumer inflation rose for the first time since December 2024 \u200cto 3.4% year-on-year in April from 3.2% in March, the statistics service said this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Government statistician Alhassan Iddrisu said the increase was \u2060mostly driven by services like transport, education, restaurants and accommodations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inflation remains slow overall but we are beginning to see a slight upward movement,&#8221; Iddrisu said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added that food inflation was lower in April than in \u200cthe \u2060same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The gold-, oil- and cocoa-producing nation has been emerging from its most severe economic crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iddrisu \u2060said global shocks and regional disruptions had started to push food and fuel \u2060prices up again but those pressures are not yet fully reflected \u2060across all items.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33875,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-33874","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ghana's consumer inflation rose for the first time since December 2024 \u200cto 3.4% year-on-year in April from 3.2% in March","published_date":"2026-05-06 13:38:13","news_description":"Ghana's consumer inflation rose for the first time since December 2024 \u200cto 3.4% year-on-year in April from 3.2% in March","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33874","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\/33874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33876,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33874\/revisions\/33876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}