AUDA-NEPAD at 25: African Integration Agenda Confronts Structural Deficits and Competing External Interests Twenty-five years after NEPAD’s founding architects, including South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki, Nigeria’s Olusegun Obasanjo, Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, positioned the initiative as Africa’s self-directed…
Transnet’s Port Recovery Data Signals Operational Gains, But Structural Reform Remains Unproven South Africa’s state-owned logistics operator, Transnet, recorded a 9.1% year-on-year increase in vessel arrivals during the 2025/26 financial year, reaching 8,630 arrivals across its eight commercial seaports. The…
South Africa’s Constitutional Court Restores Parliament’s Impeachment Mandate Over Phala Phala Scandal A unanimous ruling by South Africa’s Constitutional Court on 8 May 2026 has invalidated a 2022 parliamentary vote that buried impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa, forcing the…
Ghana’s Petroleum Import Strategy Stabilises the Cedi Short-Term, While Downstream Deficits Persist Ghana’s gold-for-oil payment arrangement, introduced in 2023, has delivered measurable relief to the cedi and moderated fuel price inflation. But the mechanism does not address the structural vulnerabilities…
A groundbreaking academic analysis has spotlighted six African intellectuals whose theoretical frameworks are fundamentally reshaping how the continent and global governance systems are understood, challenging decades of externally imposed knowledge structures. The work, detailed in the 2025 publication “Sensibilités intellectuelles…
The announcement of Trackastrophe!, a puzzle game scheduled for Q2 2026 release, reflects broader shifts in Africa’s digital creative economy that could position West African nations as competitive players in the global gaming market worth over $180 billion annually. Developed…
Ghana’s Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has opened an investigation into suspected corruption linked to the diversion of 50 twenty-foot containers of palm oil valued at GH¢25.8 million. The OSP announced the probe in a statement dated February 24,…
Ghana and Burkina Faso have signed seven bilateral agreements to deepen cooperation on security, transport, disaster management and cross-border governance. The deals were concluded at the end of meetings of the Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC), a bilateral forum…
The Minority Caucus in Ghana has accused the government of short-changing cocoa farmers after a reduction in the producer price from GH¢51,660 to GH¢41,392 per tonne for the rest of the 2025/26 season. Producer price, also called the farmgate price,…
Ghana set a new production record in 2025 with 6 million ounces of gold, according to provisional data shared by the Ghana Chamber of Mines. Large-scale mines produced 2.9 million ounces, unchanged year on year, while artisanal and small-scale mining…
