ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s consumer inflation rose for the second month in a row in October, to 22.1% year on year from 21.5% in September, the statistics service said on Wednesday.
Government statistician Samuel Kobina Annim told a news conference that both food and non-food inflation had quickened last month.
“Three divisions – food and non alcoholic beverages, housing, water and fuel, and transport – contributed about two-thirds of the overall rate of inflation for October,” Annim said.
October’s inflation rate was the highest since June.
The cocoa-, gold- and oil-producing West African country has been battling to emerge from its worst economic crisis in a generation.
Last month Ghana’s debt-restructuring process neared completion, after investors approved an overhaul of $13 billion worth of international bonds.
It also reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a third review of its $3 billion loan programme.
(Reporting by Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie; Writing by Anait Miridzhanian; Editing by Alexander Winning)
