{"id":199672,"date":"2025-06-06T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-inflation-falls-to-18-4-percent-as-soaring-cedi-eases-import-costs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:44:53","slug":"west-africa-ghana-inflation-falls-to-18-4-percent-as-soaring-cedi-eases-import-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-inflation-falls-to-18-4-percent-as-soaring-cedi-eases-import-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Ghana Inflation Falls to 18.4 Percent As Soaring Cedi Eases Import Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghana&#8217;s annual inflation rate dropped to 18.4% in May, its lowest level in over three years<\/li>\n<li>Inflation has now slowed for five consecutive months, down from 21.2% in April<\/li>\n<li>The slowdown was driven by a strong rally in the cedi and lower global oil prices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Ghana&#8217;s annual inflation rate dropped to 18.4% in May, its lowest level in over three years, driven by a strong rally in the cedi and lower global oil prices, the Ghana Statistical Service said Wednesday. Inflation has now slowed for five&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060218.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>Ghana&#8217;s annual inflation rate dropped to 18.4% in May, its lowest level in over three years Inflation has now slowed for five consecutive months, down from 21.2% in April The slowdown was driven by a strong rally in the cedi and lower global oil prices Ghana&#8217;s annual inflation rate dropped to 18.4% in May, its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,28395,11509,12621,7668,4508,4509,10453,6265,257,6720,11458,254,4375],"class_list":["post-199672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cedi","tag-costs","tag-eases","tag-falls","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-import","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-soaring","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/199672","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=199672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}