What is the core governance problem Ghana’s mining sector faces? The Ghana Chamber of Mines has issued a pointed warning: frequent, unpredictable shifts in fiscal policy are directly raising the cost of capital for mining projects across the country. Kenneth…
When bonus payments fail to reach smallholder farmers on time, or shrink without explanation, the failure is rarely accidental. It is, almost always, institutional. Across West Africa, millions of smallholder farmers operating within export commodity chains, whether cocoa in Ghana…
The animals move at dawn. Across the semi-arid corridors linking Ethiopia’s Somali Region to the port towns of Berbera and Bosaso, herders guide cattle, camels, and goats along routes that predate colonial borders by centuries. These trade routes are among…
Ghana’s cocoa regulator has moved to close a structural gap that has quietly undermined the sector’s supply chain for years. The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has formally prohibited Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) from purchasing cocoa beans from farmers on credit,…
At the heart of Kenya’s bid to exit the Financial Action Task Force’s grey list sits a deceptively simple governance question: who actually owns what? The Trust Administration Bill, 2026, currently before Parliament, proposes to answer that question by mandating…
A 241-acre waterfront redevelopment project in Accra, stalled for years by institutional inertia, funding gaps, and governance lapses, has become the clearest test yet of Ghana’s capacity to structure credible public-private partnerships for large-scale infrastructure. The Marine Drive Project, led…
A mining giant has embedded a high-performance computing and robotics facility inside Ghana’s premier mining university. The question worth asking is not whether the investment is welcome — it plainly is — but what institutional architecture surrounds it, and whether…
A port under pressure tells you everything about an economy’s circulatory health. On 7 August 2026, the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) confirmed what traders, clearing agents, and logistics operators had already been living for weeks: the Port of…
The sand that lines the banks of the White Volta River has long been both a resource and a fault line. For communities in Northern Ghana’s Nawuni sub-catchment, it represents income, construction material, and a livelihood that thousands of families…
A fatal multi-vehicle collision on 3 August 2025 near Bunso Junction in Ghana’s Eastern Region has reignited a longstanding institutional question: why has one of West Africa’s most economically critical road corridors remained a single-carriageway highway despite decades of documented…
