Ghana plans to issue a 400 million-cedi seven-year domestic bond in April in a fresh bid to use longer-term maturities to restructure its rising debt, the central bank said on Thursday.

The West African country is seeking to raise a total of 25.4 billion cedis ($7.88 billion) in domestic securities for the first six months of the year, the central bank said in its issuance calendar released late on Thursday.

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