What actually happened in Rabat on Sunday? Kenya’s Harambee Starlets opened their 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) campaign with a 4-0 defeat to hosts Morocco in a Group A fixture played at the Moulay El Hassan Stadium in…
In a modest church hall on the outskirts of Nairobi, a pastor listens. A woman sits across from her, voice low, recounting what happened in her home the night before. The pastor is not a police officer, a social worker,…
When the football federations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formally submitted a joint bid to host the 2032 Africa Cup of Nations, they did more than enter a continental sporting competition. They placed a direct institutional question before the…
Kenya and Ghana have opened formal discussions on a bilateral health partnership covering Universal Health Coverage architecture, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and digital health infrastructure, with both governments signaling intent to translate diplomatic engagement into concrete institutional programmes. The talks took place…
In the last week of July, Accra will become the temporary seat of a continental ambition. African heads of state and government are scheduled to convene on 21 and 22 July for the African Union’s first-ever Extraordinary Health Summit, a…
What exactly has the Dangote refinery achieved, and why does it matter beyond Nigeria? In August 2025, a tanker loaded with 300,000 barrels of finished gasoline departed the Lekki port complex in Lagos and sailed to the United States. The…
On 7 July 2026, the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament announced that the Council of State had advised against passage of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana (Amendment) Bill, 2025 — the legislation designed to remove constitutional restrictions barring dual…
A Crime Hidden in Plain Sight Walk through Accra’s Makola Market on any given morning and the evidence is everywhere: branded pharmaceuticals sold loose from unmarked packaging, software loaded onto devices without licenses, consumer electronics bearing logos that bear only…
Canada and Ghana marked a 56% surge in bilateral trade to US$752 million in 2025, with Ottawa signalling deeper private sector engagement across mining, renewable energy, and agribusiness at a moment when Accra’s position as host of the AfCFTA Secretariat…
Parliament Challenges Central Bank Over Undisclosed Reserve Drawdown Ghana’s parliamentary opposition has formally demanded an explanation from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) after information gathered by the Minority caucus indicated that the country’s gross international reserves fell by approximately US$2…
In Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, a cholera outbreak is exposing a governance vacuum that jihadist groups have methodically constructed over more than a decade, rendering public health response mechanisms structurally inoperable across territories where the Islamic State West Africa Province…
Ghana’s macroeconomic stabilisation since its 2022 sovereign debt crisis has drawn qualified praise from departing Swiss Ambassador Simone Giger, who served in Accra through the full arc of the country’s financial collapse and IMF-backed recovery. Her assessment, delivered on 9…
The Rematch That Reframes African Football’s Place in Global Competition When Morocco and France meet at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on 9 July 2026, the fixture carries institutional weight that extends well beyond the scoreline. The question at stake is…
Ghana’s headline inflation reached 5.3 percent in June 2026, its third consecutive monthly increase, and analysts at Databank Research now project it could retreat to between 4.6 percent and 5.0 percent in July. That forecast raises a sharper question than…
The complete withdrawal of French diplomatic personnel from Burkina Faso, confirmed by Paris late last week, marks the formal endpoint of a bilateral rupture that has been unfolding since September 2022 — when Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Ouagadougou…
