A botched arrest attempt at the Accra High Court has thrown into sharp relief the procedural standards governing Ghana’s law enforcement agencies, and whether institutional checks are functioning as they should when officers encounter elected officials. The incident began with…
Ghana’s government is set to announce a new producer price for cocoa ahead of the 2026/2027 season, a decision that carries consequences well beyond farm-gate income. At stake is the financial architecture of one of West Africa’s most strategically significant…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has publicly endorsed the African Union’s demand for permanent representation on the UN Security Council, declaring Africa’s continued exclusion “unjust and indefensible” during his final opening address to the 81st session of the General Assembly…
A Shipment That Exposed Institutional Gaps When 3.9 tonnes of cocaine surfaced in a shipment linked to Ghana, the immediate question was not simply one of law enforcement. It was a question of institutional architecture: which agencies were responsible, how…
A Recurring Institutional Failure Picture a road project in the Bono Region, freshly commissioned after years of construction and public borrowing. The ribbon is cut, the photographs are taken, and then — nothing. No complementary investment in the logistics corridors…
President John Dramani Mahama told an international audience in New York on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly that his administration is actively restructuring Ghana’s public financial management systems, with a direct focus on curbing the diversion…
At a commemorative gathering in Nkroful, the birthplace of Ghana’s founding president, a pointed rebuttal was issued against one of the most persistent misreadings of twentieth-century African political thought. A Contested Legacy, Revisited in Nkroful On the occasion of what…
A Shift in Development Architecture With Direct Consequences for West African Governance India’s development cooperation framework, encompassing concessional finance, technical assistance, institutional capacity-building and technology transfer across more than 160 partner countries, is reshaping the terms on which Global South…
At the 15th Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures held at the University of Cape Coast on 17 September 2026, Sir Sam Jonah, the institution’s Chancellor, posed a question that cuts to the heart of Ghana’s post-independence governance record: why has a…
The arrest of four officers from the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in connection with a nearly 3.9-tonne cocaine shipment intercepted by French authorities reveals a governance failure that extends well beyond Ghana’s borders. At stake is…
Ghana spends more of its national revenue servicing external debt than it allocates to public health. That single figure, drawn from an ActionAid analysis of eight African countries using January 2025 data, crystallises a structural tension that undermines climate resilience…
In Nairobi on 15 September, more than 300 policymakers, regulators, and development finance leaders from over 20 African countries gathered around a single, uncomfortable arithmetic: African institutional investors collectively manage an estimated US$4 trillion, yet only 2.7% of those assets…
What exactly did Guinea and Glencore agree to? A single deal rarely reshapes a country’s extractive economy. But the more than US$300-million bauxite pre-financing and offtake agreement signed between Guinea’s state-owned Nimba Mining and Swiss commodities giant Glencore last week…
A projected double-digit increase in diesel prices, set to take effect on 17 September 2026, has thrown into sharp relief the structural vulnerability of Ghana’s petroleum pricing framework — and, by extension, the broader challenge facing West African governments that…
A senior Ghanaian lawmaker has raised a formal alarm over the country’s deepening exposure as a drug transit corridor, warning that successive large-scale narcotics seizures by foreign authorities are eroding Ghana’s international standing while domestic enforcement produces no high-profile prosecutions…
