{"id":47515,"date":"2026-10-07T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47515"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:15:43","slug":"ghana-inflation-accelerates-for-second-month-in-september","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ghana-inflation-accelerates-for-second-month-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana inflation accelerates for second month in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s consumer inflation quickened for the second month in a row in September, reaching 5.2% year-on-year from 5.0% the previous month, data from the statistics service showed this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Government \u2060Statistician Alhassan Iddrisu said non-food inflation was a key driver of the increase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inflation has almost halved over the past year, though it has started to edge up again after July&#8217;s fall, Iddrisu said during an online press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 6.2% (non-food inflation) still outpaces food (4.0%) and makes up \u200cnearly \u2060two-thirds of inflation,&#8221; Iddrisu&#8217;s presentation showed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About 86% of Ghana&#8217;s inflation comes from goods and services made in the West African country<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inflation is now a home-grown, \u2060services story,&#8221; the presentation added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The central bank maintained its main interest rate for the third meeting running in September, \u2060saying inflation was expected to move up into its 6% to 10% target band \u2060over the next few quarters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47516,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-47515","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ghana's consumer inflation quickened for the second month in a row in September","published_date":"2026-10-07 15:14:33","news_description":"Ghana's consumer inflation quickened for the second month in a row in September","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47515","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\/47515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47517,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47515\/revisions\/47517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}