A US$900 Million Overcharge and What It Reveals About Public Procurement Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway, the flagship infrastructure project connecting Mombasa to Nairobi across 472 kilometres, cost Ksh.987 million per kilometre to build, despite running on diesel traction. Tanzania’s electrified…
A Record Crypto Theft and Its Institutional Fallout On or about 29 October 2026, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, suffered a cyberattack that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has formally attributed to North…
Ghana’s newly launched Responsible Cooperative Mining initiative faces serious questions about institutional compliance and community consent, with a leading environmental governance advocate warning that the programme replicates the structural weaknesses that caused its predecessor, the Community Mining scheme, to collapse…
At the centre of Ghana’s most politically charged environmental debate, a single video excerpt has reignited a fundamental governance question: can a state institution simultaneously regulate and formalise an informal sector without legitimising its worst practices? The controversy broke publicly…
There is a particular kind of scrutiny that attaches itself to a Chief Justice appointed during a change of government, a scrutiny that rarely concerns itself with the texture of actual decisions and almost always concerns itself with the politics…
Ghana’s Gold Board (GoldBod) CEO Sammy Gyamfi announced on 20 October at the Mining in Motion Conference that institutional, licensing, and value-addition reforms introduced by the board have generated 4,866 direct jobs in under two years, comprising 361 public-sector positions…
A Landmark Agreement With a Long Road to Completion On paper, the numbers are striking. The Petroleum Hub Development Corporation (PHDC) has signed a $28 billion Build-Operate partnership agreement with a consortium led by Global Sphere for the development of…
At a three-day convening held from 14 to 16 October in Lusaka, Zambia, five of Africa’s major Regional Economic Communities formally endorsed a set of recommendations that, taken together, represent the most structurally ambitious attempt in recent memory to reframe…
The number arrived quietly, but it carried weight. Kenya’s economy grew at 5.1 percent in the second quarter of 2025, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) confirmed, brushing aside the twin headwinds of geopolitical price volatility linked to the…
Ghana’s automotive sector presents a precise, measurable test of whether the country can convert trade facilitation into genuine industrial capacity, and the answer hinges on a governance question that extends well beyond the factory floor: does Ghana’s current policy architecture…
