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…
In Nairobi on 15 September, more than 300 policymakers, regulators, and development finance leaders from over 20 African countries gathered around a single, uncomfortable arithmetic: African institutional investors collectively manage an estimated US$4 trillion, yet only 2.7% of those assets…
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…
A projected double-digit increase in diesel prices, set to take effect on 17 September 2026, has thrown into sharp relief the structural vulnerability of Ghana’s petroleum pricing framework — and, by extension, the broader challenge facing West African governments that…
Ghana’s Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, declared on 13 September 2025 that the country is executing what the government describes as the single largest road infrastructure programme on the African continent at any given point in time.…
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…
What exactly is the IMF saying about Ghana’s state enterprises? The International Monetary Fund has put Ghana’s management of its state-owned enterprises directly in its crosshairs. In a Technical Assistance Report published in July 2026, titled “Advancing SOE Fiscal Risks…
Kenya’s government has moved to reaffirm its obligations under the East African Community’s free movement protocols, after reports of potential ultimatums targeting small-scale traders from neighbouring EAC member states triggered a sharp public debate about the limits of regional integration…
When a hospital runs out of oxygen cylinders, the margin for error collapses fast. That is the operational reality Indo-Ghana Industries Limited is attempting to dismantle through locally produced liquid medical oxygen, a supply-chain shift with implications that extend well…
Kenya’s pension sector executed a significant portfolio reallocation in the first half of 2026, shifting Sh130.51 billion from government securities into quoted equities on the Nairobi Securities Exchange as falling bond yields and a sustained stock market rally reshaped the…
