Ghana looking at 3-year IMF programme of $2 bln-$3 bln -finance minister - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

“We’re thinking of maybe a three-year programme… but knowing that within two years we must have achieved most of what we intend to,” he said in an interview on Ghanaian television.

“We look forward to anything, maybe two or three or so billion dollars over the period and then get back to the market friendly sovereigns for the balance that we need.” Gold, cocoa and oil-producing Ghana is facing a nearly $1 billion balance-of-payments deficit and turned to the IMF earlier this month for a support package after hundreds of people took to the streets to protest worsening economic hardship.

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