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…
When Ghana’s Tema–Mpakadan railway line was commissioned, it was presented as a milestone in the country’s long-deferred infrastructure modernisation. What a forensic audit later revealed was something considerably less triumphant: a corridor put into service without functional signalling, without operational…
The Man Before the Money He walks in wearing a Panama hat, cream layered on cream, trailing a cologne that signals something more considered than wealth — it signals intention. Nahashon Mungai, the architect of Mansa-X, one of East Africa’s…
Every rainy season, communities along the White Volta in Ghana’s Upper East Region brace for a disaster they did not cause. When Burkina Faso’s Bagre Dam releases water upstream, the resulting floods inundate farmlands, collapse homes, wash out roads, and…
Floodwater does not merely destroy property. It transforms ordinary food products into vectors of disease, and Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority is now confronting exactly that regulatory challenge following the June 29 floods that swept through parts of the Greater…
On a Saturday in late June, a letter bearing the signature of Interior Minister Jacquemain Shabani arrived at the offices of provincial authorities across Kinshasa and three neighbouring provinces. Its stated purpose was epidemiological: to prohibit “mass gatherings” in order…
Kenya’s Infotrak research firm has published a nationwide parliamentary performance index ranking Members of Parliament across all 290 constituencies, 47 counties, and 1,450 wards — and the methodological ambition of the exercise exposes a governance gap that West African legislatures,…
A Deadline That Displaced Thousands At the Beitbridge border post in late June 2026, more than 8,000 foreign nationals were processed for repatriation in under two weeks. Many had not been formally deported; they had simply left, driven out by…
