A Pattern That Demands Institutional Accountability Three major cocaine interceptions in under three months, spanning three continents and implicating Ghana’s principal port, its main international airport and its domestic transport networks, constitute an institutional stress test, not a string of…
Ghana’s newly launched Responsible Cooperative Mining initiative faces serious questions about institutional compliance and community consent, with a leading environmental governance advocate warning that the programme replicates the structural weaknesses that caused its predecessor, the Community Mining scheme, to collapse…
Ghana’s Gold Board (GoldBod) moved on Thursday to contain a growing governance controversy by formally clarifying that its chief executive’s public remarks on illegal mining did not constitute an endorsement of galamsey, insisting instead that the institution is pursuing a…
Nairobi’s Global Trust Summit has forced a precise institutional question onto the table: under what conditions do public bodies earn legitimate authority, and what governance mechanisms make that authority durable? Running from 21 to 23 October under the theme “Weaving…
A Ghanaian court has blocked a mandatory licensing examination for 792 newly trained medical doctors, exposing a governance fault line between professional regulatory bodies and the due process rights of graduating health workers. The ruling lands at a moment when…
A new industry benchmark report reveals that seven in ten Kenyan workers are not on track for a financially secure retirement, a finding that cuts to the heart of a governance failure shared across West Africa: the persistent inability of…
A Landmark Agreement With a Long Road to Completion On paper, the numbers are striking. The Petroleum Hub Development Corporation (PHDC) has signed a $28 billion Build-Operate partnership agreement with a consortium led by Global Sphere for the development of…
When King Mohammed VI presided over the swearing-in of Morocco’s restructured cabinet at the Royal Palace in Rabat on Friday, the ceremony carried weight beyond its ceremonial form. At its centre stood Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, appointed Head of Government…
Ghana’s automotive sector presents a precise, measurable test of whether the country can convert trade facilitation into genuine industrial capacity, and the answer hinges on a governance question that extends well beyond the factory floor: does Ghana’s current policy architecture…
A Governance Failure Hidden Inside a Health Crisis Kenya’s first confirmed Ebola fatality is not simply a public health emergency. It is a diagnostic test of the country’s institutional capacity to manage cross-border disease surveillance within a region where human…
King Mohammed VI’s address at the opening of Morocco’s parliamentary year in Rabat was not a speech in the conventional sense. It was a diplomatic repositioning, one that inverted the familiar architecture of North-South negotiation by placing Morocco in the…
Ghana’s legal profession just grew by 1,568 practitioners. The General Legal Council’s formal admission of this cohort at the International Central Gospel Church in Teshie, Accra, marks more than a ceremonial milestone — it signals the closing chapter of a…
A seat at the table, for too long, was the finish line. Esther Mwaniki, Founder and CEO of Lapid Leaders Africa, is making the case that it should be the starting point. Speaking ahead of the Women of Purpose Summit…
A targeted enforcement operation by the Bank of Ghana has thrust a niche but growing segment of Accra’s informal economy into a sharp institutional spotlight, raising pointed questions about how central banks calibrate regulatory authority against the realities of street-level…
What has Ghana actually decided, and who made the call? Ghana’s Cabinet, under President John Dramani Mahama, has formally resolved to apply for membership in BRICS, the intergovernmental grouping that now encompasses Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and a…
