The shooting deaths of two Egyptian truck drivers at a market south of Khartoum in May 2025 set off a chain of institutional responses that now threaten one of the few functioning land trade corridors between North Africa and the…
A five-member Supreme Court panel has cleared the way for a criminal trial that cuts to the heart of Ghana’s public infrastructure governance. The case began years before it reached the Supreme Court’s chambers. Solomon Asamoah served as Chief Executive…
Walk through the graduate halls of the University of Ghana’s Legon campus on any given afternoon, and the scene carries a particular tension. Students clutch freshly printed CVs, rehearsing interview answers for roles that, in many cases, barely existed when…
A contractual breach dating back years finally reached its breaking point in October 2026, when the University of Ghana branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG-UG) formally notified the National Labour Commission that it would withdraw all teaching…
A Kenyan institutional investor can now buy into Nigeria’s most consequential industrial asset of the decade. Whether the regulatory plumbing that makes this possible can scale into a durable regional capital market is the harder question. The Transaction and Its…
A Structural Gap, Not a Supply Problem The central argument is straightforward: Africa’s failure to deliver assistive technology at scale is not primarily a product shortage. It is a governance failure, rooted in weak public financing frameworks, fragmented health system…
When a government minister returns from New York with a communiqué, the document’s value is not determined by the elegance of its language or the seniority of the signatories. It is determined by whether a nurse in Tamale has reliable…
Ghana’s Public Accounts Committee convened on 6 October 2025 confronting a figure that demands more than routine parliamentary scrutiny: GH¢5.2 billion in financial irregularities recorded across Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, of which GH¢4.8 billion traces directly to tax infractions. The…
Africa’s most prominent industrialist is putting $16 billion on the line in Kenya. Whether the continent’s institutions can match that ambition is the real question. Speaking on the inaugural episode of BBC Africa Enterprise at the groundbreaking of his planned…
Kenya’s coffee industry, once among the continent’s most celebrated agricultural export sectors, now faces a structural reckoning that extends well beyond farm-level productivity. At Science Summit Nairobi 2026, organised by Landscape Alliance, researchers, financiers, technology firms, and industry representatives converged…
Ghana’s President Joins African Heads of State in Alamein for Coordination Summit President John Dramani Mahama arrived in Alamein, Egypt, on Friday to attend the 8th African Union Mid-Year Coordination Summit, a gathering that brings together African heads of state…
The Governance Gap Behind Ghana’s Deepening Exposure The central question is not whether Ghana trades with China. It is whether Ghana’s regulatory institutions are enforcing the terms under which that relationship operates. Across three distinct but interconnected sectors — retail…
The 2025 Global Organised Crime Index positions Ghana not merely as a country grappling with domestic security deficits, but as a functional node in the weapons supply chain sustaining active conflicts in Mali and Burkina Faso. The report’s designation of…
A US$10 million commitment from the United Arab Emirates to contain the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has placed renewed scrutiny on East Africa’s cross-border health governance mechanisms, exposing both the structural vulnerabilities and the institutional…
When President John Dramani Mahama announced at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, that Ghana intends to list 10 state-owned enterprises on the Ghana Stock Exchange, the headline figure…
