When Ghana’s Tema–Mpakadan railway line was commissioned, it was presented as a milestone in the country’s long-deferred infrastructure modernisation. What a forensic audit later revealed was something considerably less triumphant: a corridor put into service without functional signalling, without operational…
Kenya’s government is moving to strip three agricultural parastatals of their lending powers and consolidate all State-backed farm financing under a single institution, the Kenya Agribusiness Development Corporation (KADCO) Limited, in a legislative reform that directly responds to a KSh…
The Man Before the Money He walks in wearing a Panama hat, cream layered on cream, trailing a cologne that signals something more considered than wealth — it signals intention. Nahashon Mungai, the architect of Mansa-X, one of East Africa’s…
Every rainy season, communities along the White Volta in Ghana’s Upper East Region brace for a disaster they did not cause. When Burkina Faso’s Bagre Dam releases water upstream, the resulting floods inundate farmlands, collapse homes, wash out roads, and…
Proven agricultural innovations are stalling at the pilot stage across West Africa. The science exists. The financing mechanisms, institutional pathways, and governance frameworks to move that science into widespread use largely do not. This is not a research failure. It…
Kenya’s Infotrak research firm has published a nationwide parliamentary performance index ranking Members of Parliament across all 290 constituencies, 47 counties, and 1,450 wards — and the methodological ambition of the exercise exposes a governance gap that West African legislatures,…
A Regional Pricing Crisis With Structural Roots When international oil markets convulse, West African consumers absorb the shockwaves with particular severity, and the mechanics of how governments manage that transmission reveal the quality of their fiscal governance. South Africa’s current…
The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry is hearing testimony that cuts to the heart of a question South African governance has struggled to answer for more than a decade: how deeply did organised crime penetrate the South African Police Service, and…
South Africa’s Tobacco Bill Tests Whether African Legislatures Can Deliver Risk-Proportionate Health Regulation South Africa’s Parliament advanced a landmark tobacco control bill on 24 June 2026, when the Portfolio Committee on Health approved the desirability of the Tobacco Products and…
Fossil Fuels Set to Supply 61% of Africa’s Electricity by 2030, as New Database Exposes Planning Gaps Across 3,139 Power Plants A comprehensive continental audit of Africa’s electricity infrastructure reveals that fossil fuels will continue to dominate power generation through…
