A continental free trade agreement means little if a Ghanaian exporter still needs US dollars to pay a Kenyan supplier. That is not a hypothetical — it is the operational reality AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene described at a recent gathering…
On 1 May 2026, a shipment of Ghanaian cocoa crossed into the Chinese market without a customs duty attached. So did Kenyan coffee, Egyptian citrus, and South African wine. Across 53 African countries, the General Administration of Customs of the…
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…
Across West Africa, financial inclusion frameworks have treated credit access as the primary lever for advancing women’s economic participation. Ghana’s government, ECOWAS regional bodies, and development finance institutions have collectively channelled billions of dollars into reducing collateral requirements, digitising loan…
Ghana’s domestic aviation sector operates under structural conditions that systematically suppress fare competition, with policy choices made over the past decade narrowing the market to two scheduled carriers and leaving consumers with limited alternatives. From Four Carriers to Two The…
A single road contract, awarded once, paid multiple times over, and never completed. That is the procurement dynamic Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhassan Suhuyini, described on 18 September 2026, and it cuts to the core of why…
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…
On a quiet Monday morning in Accra, the Bank of Ghana quietly but decisively pulled GH¢13.71 billion out of the financial system through a tender of 14-day Bills, accepting every cedi offered by participating banks at an interest rate of…
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…
Ghana spends more of its national revenue servicing external debt than it allocates to public health. That single figure, drawn from an ActionAid analysis of eight African countries using January 2025 data, crystallises a structural tension that undermines climate resilience…
