The people are taking to the streets in Ghana as inflation soars to 27%. It looks like the end of history just ended.
BREAKING: Protests in Ghana breaking out due to soaring prices of fuel, food and high cost of living.
Inflation surges to 27% ?
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Ghana police fired tear gas and arrested more than two dozen protesters in the capital Accra on Tuesday after a demonstration over soaring living costs turned violent.
The West African nation, reeling from a pandemic-spurred economic slump and hammered by the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine, has seen inflation surge to more than 27 percent this month – the highest level in almost two decades.
President Nana Akufo-Addo is under increasing pressure to address the higher cost of food and fuel.
Clad in red and black, hundreds of protesters gathered in Accra, chanting songs and holding placards that read “We’re suffering Akufo-Addo” and “The high cost of living will kill us”.
“We can’t afford three meals a day. Transport fares and food prices are too high,” protester Baba Musah, who repairs mobile phones for a living, told AFP. “We are suffering.”
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