Relationship dossier
Ghana
Italy
Relationship assessment
Ghana and Italy maintain practical cooperation, including in development and energy.
Ghana toward Italy
+20Ghana has participated in energy cooperation involving Italy’s Eni through the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s partnership on the Sankofa gas project. This provides a concrete example of Ghanaian engagement with an Italian-linked enterprise.
Italy toward Ghana
+20Italy has engaged Ghana through bilateral development cooperation. Italian company Eni’s partnership with Ghana’s national petroleum corporation on the Sankofa gas project is also a prominent area of Italian-linked cooperation.
Overall relationship
+20The relationship has a practical cooperative basis in development engagement and energy cooperation, including the Sankofa project involving Ghana’s national petroleum corporation and Italy’s Eni. These areas support a positive assessment, while the breadth of wider bilateral arrangements is less clear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Ghana–Italy relations include practical cooperation, particularly in development and energy. The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s partnership with Italy’s Eni on the Sankofa gas project is a significant example of Ghanaian and Italian-linked cooperation. Italy has also engaged Ghana through bilateral development cooperation. The breadth and implementation of other government-to-government arrangements are less clear.
Key developments
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation and Italy’s Eni participated in the Sankofa gas project, a major Ghanaian energy development.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral development cooperation are unclear.
- The extent of current government-level cooperation beyond energy and development is uncertain.