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…
A governance gap behind the numbers With Ghana recording a maternal mortality ratio of 801 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to a three-year study referenced in a Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital report, a senior political adviser has demanded that the…
A UNICEF analysis covering 106 countries has quantified what many education ministers in West Africa already know from experience: climate hazards are no longer peripheral shocks to school calendars. They are a structural feature of educational governance. In 2025, more…
The expanded BRICS grouping, now 11 members strong after its 2023 enlargement, is testing a fundamental question for West African governments: does institutional pluralism in global governance translate into concrete development gains, or does it simply multiply the diplomatic corridors…
The Policy Question at Stake Kenya’s government has positioned digital services exports as a cornerstone of its economic diversification strategy, training over 1.8 million young people through the Ajira and Jitume programmes and claiming more than 300,000 digital jobs created…
Kenya’s pension sector executed a significant portfolio reallocation in the first half of 2026, shifting Sh130.51 billion from government securities into quoted equities on the Nairobi Securities Exchange as falling bond yields and a sustained stock market rally reshaped the…
