President John Dramani Mahama used a side event at the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York to lay out a structured, three-part framework for operationalising the reparative justice commitments embedded in UN Resolution 80/250, the historic March 2025…
Across West Africa, financial inclusion frameworks have treated credit access as the primary lever for advancing women’s economic participation. Ghana’s government, ECOWAS regional bodies, and development finance institutions have collectively channelled billions of dollars into reducing collateral requirements, digitising loan…
Ghana’s domestic aviation sector operates under structural conditions that systematically suppress fare competition, with policy choices made over the past decade narrowing the market to two scheduled carriers and leaving consumers with limited alternatives. From Four Carriers to Two The…
A single road contract, awarded once, paid multiple times over, and never completed. That is the procurement dynamic Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhassan Suhuyini, described on 18 September 2026, and it cuts to the core of why…
When French customs officers at the Port of Dunkirk intercepted nearly 3.9 tonnes of cocaine on 10 September 2026, concealed within a container of plastic waste that had departed Ghana, they did more than disrupt a single narcotics shipment. They…
On a quiet Monday morning in Accra, the Bank of Ghana quietly but decisively pulled GH¢13.71 billion out of the financial system through a tender of 14-day Bills, accepting every cedi offered by participating banks at an interest rate of…
Ghana’s ability to leverage artificial intelligence as a governance and development instrument depends less on the sophistication of its technology imports than on whether its institutions can bridge the persistent gap between research output and practical implementation. That was the…
The scene was unremarkable by the standards of a busy Accra street: a police patrol team, uniformed and armed with institutional authority, stopping a civilian. What allegedly followed, however, cut to the heart of a governance problem that West African…
When Algerian and Malian officials sat down in Bamako this week to discuss joint investment in gold, lithium, and cross-border transport infrastructure, they were doing so against a backdrop that, barely six months earlier, had looked entirely different. The meeting…
A single infrastructure decision can redraw an economy’s internal logic. Ghana’s proposed Accra-Kumasi Expressway, a 198.7-kilometre, six-lane corridor designed to cut travel time between the country’s two largest cities from six hours to two, is precisely that kind of decision…
At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping did not merely call for unity among emerging economies — he outlined a structural challenge to the post-1945 multilateral order, one whose reverberations extend directly into the governance…
Ghana’s Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, declared on 13 September 2025 that the country is executing what the government describes as the single largest road infrastructure programme on the African continent at any given point in time.…
Twenty years is long enough to test an idea. When Brazil, Russia, India, and China first convened under the BRICS banner in the mid-2000s, the grouping was largely dismissed in Western financial capitals as an acronym in search of a…
What exactly is the IMF saying about Ghana’s state enterprises? The International Monetary Fund has put Ghana’s management of its state-owned enterprises directly in its crosshairs. In a Technical Assistance Report published in July 2026, titled “Advancing SOE Fiscal Risks…
Kenya’s Ruto Demands Sovereign Equality in Foreign Investment as Africa Pushes for Value-Retention Over Extraction Kenyan President William Ruto used the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Business Summit in Nairobi to deliver a pointed message to international investors: Africa will…
