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Reuters
Reuters
Business
Francis Kokoroko and Cooper Inveen

Ghana bakers feel the heat of rising inflation

Emmanuel Asante, 36, a baker, prepares rolls of bread dough at the Bethel Brothers bakery in Accra, Ghana, March 6, 2022. Picture taken March 6, 2022. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Blazing heat radiated from the wood-fired oven of the Bethel Brothers Bakery in Ghana's capital Accra, as a dozen men hastily shaped dough into hundreds of rolls that would be scattered through the city the following morning.

The bakery, founded nearly 25 years ago by childhood friends Raphael Borketey and David Eshun, churns out hundreds of loaves of bread each day for households, restaurants and street traders. But spiralling inflation could soon shut its doors.

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