Ghana's President John Mahama urged the African Union to take immediate action on xenophobic violence in South Africa by July 22-23, 2026, while AllAfrica published commentary arguing the South African government's response to the crisis fell well short of the standard it set during the COVID-19 emergency

Nigeria and Ghana's foreign ministries issued a joint condemnation on July 20 of ongoing anti-immigrant violence targeting African nationals in South Africa, describing the incidents as 'Afrophobic,' and called for the issue to be placed on the agenda of the next African Union summit; the two governments said the attacks undermine the ideals of African unity

Nigeria's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Ghana's foreign minister agreed at an ECOWAS summit bilateral meeting to deepen cooperation against anti-immigrant violence in South Africa and to table 'Afrophobia' at the next African Union summit.

The Ivorian government's July 2 Council of Ministers statement put the death toll at 59 since May, with 20 fatalities from a single round of Abidjan flooding in late June; 7.5 million people are at risk across the sub-region

Flash floods and landslides from a multi-day West African rain event killed 12 in Greater Accra and at least 12 more in Abidjan on June 29-30; June 2026 set Ghana's highest monthly rainfall on record, with 140mm falling on Accra in a single day, and President Mahama authorized emergency contingency funds

Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana produce two-thirds of the world's cocoa, the tropical crop behind all chocolate, making West African harvests a global commodity price signal.

The Ghana Gold Board centralised artisanal-mining gold purchases and exported 103 tonnes in 10 months, generating over US$10bn in forex inflows, but opponents say the president's brother is a primary beneficiary