Ghana’s state aluminium development body has formally denied that the Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) is being sold to businessman Ibrahim Mahama, as public speculation over the smelter’s privatisation process intensifies and threatens to disrupt the government’s industrial strategy for…
A Diplomatic Encounter Rooted in Strategic Recalibration When Gabonese transitional president Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema lands in Accra between 28 and 30 July, the visit will carry weight beyond ceremonial protocol. The three-day official engagement, extended at the invitation of…
The headline figure looks reassuring: Ghana’s two sovereign petroleum funds closed the first half of 2026 with a combined balance of US$1.64 billion, up from an opening balance of US$1.55 billion at the start of the year. Yet the underlying…
A single public statement from a presidential candidate cannot halt a criminal prosecution in Ghana. That is the institutional reality at the centre of a case that has drawn unexpected attention to the boundaries between political will and prosecutorial independence…
A video clip, shared and reshared across WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages in Ghana’s Central Region, has landed a mid-level party operative in police custody and reopened a persistently unresolved question about where political speech ends and criminal liability begins…
Kenya Reinsurance Corporation’s move to establish physical offices in Dar es Salaam and Kigali signals a concrete institutional bet on East African market integration, one that carries implications for how reinsurance capacity is built, regulated, and distributed across the region.…
Ghana’s Parliament passed the Tribunals Bill, triggering immediate pushback from opposition leader Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who publicly urged President John Dramani Mahama to withhold presidential assent from legislation that would reintroduce lay-panel adjudication over criminal matters — a governance model…
The Infrastructure Deficit Beneath the Policy Ambition Ghana cannot industrialise on rhetoric alone. At the 2nd Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE)–Professor Douglas Boateng Lecture Series held in Accra, Ing Edward E. Obeng-Kenzo, Chief Executive of the Volta River Authority (VRA),…
The United Nations refugee agency and the Ethiopian government have jointly inaugurated a new support centre in Ethiopia designed to provide displaced persons with free legal advice and formal protection services, a development that places one of Africa’s most significant…
The Tema Oil Refinery’s receipt of one million barrels of Jubilee Medium Sweet Crude on 15 July 2026 poses a precise governance question: can Ghana’s sole state-owned refinery convert consistent upstream supply into a structurally competitive downstream operation, or will…
A Transfer That Signals Structural Patterns in African Football Labour Ghanaian forward Benjamin Nyarko has completed a transfer from Czech top-flight club Slovan Liberec to Austrian second-division side Admira Wacker, a move that, on its surface, reads as routine football…
What is the AES, and why does its internal review matter? Burkina Faso’s National Commission of the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES) convened on Thursday to assess progress against the Confederation’s second-year roadmap, exposing both incremental gains and structural…
A writ filed at Ghana’s Supreme Court on 9 July 2026 has placed one of the country’s most consequential constitutional questions before its highest judicial authority: does Article 66(2) of the 1992 Constitution impose a lifetime ban on the presidency…
Public money without public scrutiny is not investment. It is risk. Three civil society organisations, BudgIT Ghana, the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), and Revenue Mobilisation Africa (RMA), have issued a joint demand for the Government of Ghana to publish…
When the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa convened a National Youth Dialogue in Accra to domesticate the Africa Agribusiness Young Strategy and launch the Youth in Agrifood Systems Performance Index, the event carried a question that no amount…
