Eleven Japanese companies gathered in Accra recently to showcase their products, technologies, and business operations in Ghana, an event that Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Yoshimoto used to reframe the bilateral relationship in explicitly developmental terms. The central question the exhibition raised…
What is Ghana actually demanding, and why now? At a high-level side event in New York focused on international cooperation for the return of cultural property, Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa placed restitution squarely within the framework of…
When the price of cooking gas rises in Accra, the mechanism behind that increase rarely surfaces in public debate. Yet the signal now coming from Ghana’s LPG industry executives is precise and worth examining with care: propane and butane, the…
A Gulf state with no land border in Africa now sits at the table where the emerging global economic order is being written. That fact alone should concentrate minds in Accra, Abuja, and Dakar. The 18th BRICS Summit, held in…
New York, 21 September 2024 — President William Ruto arrived in New York on Sunday alongside First Lady Rachel Ruto and a Kenyan government delegation, opening a week of high-level engagements at the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81)…
A quiet notice on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s website last week rewrote, at least partially, the diplomatic ledger between Washington and Asmara. The Trump administration’s decision to remove sanctions against the Eritrean Defense Forces marks a deliberate recalibration…
The bill was GH¢49.72 million. That figure, now confirmed through a formal Right to Information disclosure, represents the full cost Ghana’s government incurred evacuating 1,964 nationals from South Africa between 27 May and 4 September 2026, and it is already…
When more than fifty young men were arrested near Borgu, in Niger State’s gold-bearing north-central belt, on a Tuesday in late 2024, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps processed them as routine suspects in an ongoing crackdown on artisanal…
The Institutional Stakes of Kenya’s Infrastructure Financing Pivot Kenya’s National Infrastructure Fund (NIF) is making a deliberate bid to redirect domestic pension capital toward large-scale infrastructure projects, a move that places the country’s regulatory architecture and institutional investment frameworks under…
Kenya’s emerging social-commerce economy raises a pointed policy question for West Africa: will African economies build the regulatory, payments and trade infrastructure required to capture the value created by this new form of commerce, or will they simply host transactions…
Ghana’s Black Maidens launched their WAFU B U17 Girls Cup campaign on 15 May 2025 with a commanding 4-0 defeat of Burkina Faso, a result that carries significance beyond the scoreline. Within the architecture of West African football governance, the…
At Ghana’s latest primary market Treasury bill auction, investor demand outpaced government targets by 2.83%, a figure modest in isolation but telling in context: it marks another data point in a cautious, incremental restoration of confidence in a sovereign debt…
When 26 young Ghanaians graduated from a 12-week digital skills programme in Accra in August 2026, the ceremony carried a weight that extended well beyond the occasion itself. Samuel Nartey George, Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovation, framed the…
The meeting room at the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi was not the typical setting for a pension fund roadshow. Students, salaried workers, and small business owners filed in, many of them Ugandans who had built lives in Kenya but…
Ghana’s Ministry of Finance moved on 10 September 2026 to defend the employment projections attached to the proposed Accra-Kumasi Expressway, with Technical Advisor Dr Theo Acheampong arguing that the government’s estimate of 30,000 direct and indirect jobs is not only…
