Sovereign debt default is "a real possibility" for Ghana as it contends with an economic crisis, a senior director from the ratings agency Fitch said on Wednesday.
The West African country turned to the IMF for help in July as its balance-of-payments position deteriorated and hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against economic hardship.
The gold- and cocoa-producing nation's government has been struggling to slow galloping inflation, reduce the public debt and revalue the local currency.
(Reporting by Cooper Inveen; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
