{"id":205393,"date":"2025-08-24T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-were-open-to-business-president-mahama-woos-investors-at-ticad-9\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:43:29","slug":"ghana-were-open-to-business-president-mahama-woos-investors-at-ticad-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-were-open-to-business-president-mahama-woos-investors-at-ticad-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: We&#8217;re Open to Business &#8230;President Mahama Woos Investors At TICAD-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed to Japanese investors that his government is reviewing the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Act, 2013 (Act 865) to remove what he said were barriers to foreign investment in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Speaking at the Presidential Investment Forum at the ongoing Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-9) in Yokohama, Japan, yesterday, President Mahama said the move is intended to attract more investments into the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;We are open&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210640.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 disclosed to Japanese investors that his government is reviewing the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Act, 2013 (Act 865) to remove what he said were barriers to foreign investment in the country. Speaking at the Presidential Investment Forum at the ongoing Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-9) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671236:d15e9d3a9b12d38e40da25274393231a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[4338,258,256,4508,4509,5986,7780,257,5983,2450,254,52166,19248],"class_list":["post-205393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-investors","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-open","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ticad9","tag-woos"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671236:d15e9d3a9b12d38e40da25274393231a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205393","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=205393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}