{"id":191724,"date":"2025-02-18T17:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-no-agreement-to-extend-imf-programme-president-mahama\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:19:08","slug":"ghana-no-agreement-to-extend-imf-programme-president-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-no-agreement-to-extend-imf-programme-president-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: No Agreement to Extend IMF Programme &#8211; President Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">President John Dramani Mahama has given the indication that his government has not discussed the possibility of extending Ghana&#8217;s US$3 billion extended credit facility with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The focus of the government for now, President Mahama said was to stay on course with the current programme which expires in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve not talked about an extension of the programme. We are determined to continue with this programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;If it&#8217;s necessary to look at additional funds or to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502180409.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has given the indication that his government has not discussed the possibility of extending Ghana&#8217;s US$3 billion extended credit facility with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The focus of the government for now, President Mahama said was to stay on course with the current programme which expires in 2026. &#8220;We&#8217;ve not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6423,7791,4508,4509,1283,7780,257,2450,7715,254],"class_list":["post-191724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-extend","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-imf","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-president","tag-programme","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}