When Telecel Ghana’s External Affairs Director, Komla Buami, took the panel stage at the Executive Women’s Network’s tenth anniversary conference in Accra, the moment crystallised a question that sits at the heart of corporate governance across West Africa: does private…
Coastal Livelihoods Erode as Overfishing and Climate Disruption Converge on the Indian Ocean A convergence of illegal industrial fishing and accelerating climate disruption is systematically dismantling the livelihoods of artisanal coastal communities along East Africa’s Indian Ocean coast, exposing critical…
For generations, rural women across Kenya have cultivated land registered in someone else’s name, raised children without authority over household resources, and watched decisions that shaped their daily lives emerge from rooms they were never invited to enter. That arrangement,…
When a state’s investigative apparatus begins to function as a sentencing mechanism, the rule of law does not merely bend — it fractures. That is the core of what OccupyGhana, one of Ghana’s most credible civic accountability organisations, put before…
Oxford Economics has now quantified what regional analysts have long argued: Nairobi is not merely a national economic centre but a continental financial node whose trajectory will shape East African integration for a generation. The question is whether Kenya’s institutional…
Kenya’s private sector is not struggling despite its governance frameworks. It is struggling because of them. A new World Bank Private Sector Diagnostic report lays out, with unusual directness, how compounding tax burdens, systemic bribery, and regulatory dysfunction are suppressing…
A Governance Fault Line in Ghana’s Energy Restructuring Labour exclusion nearly derailed one of Ghana’s most consequential infrastructure reforms. The Public Utilities Workers Union’s decision to suspend a planned demonstration against private-sector involvement in the Electricity Company of Ghana signals…
Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa took a pointed stand at the United Nations General Assembly last week, declaring Accra’s firm opposition to any move to dismantle the International Criminal Court and calling for a structural overhaul of global…
What is actually at stake in Ghana’s speech regulation debate? On 22 September 2026, the Ghanaian Presidency issued a directive to the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), asking both organisations to convene a…
When President John Dramani Mahama sat down with senior Boeing executives on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York, the conversation that unfolded was, on its surface, about aircraft maintenance. Beneath it, however, lay a…
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…
