What exactly has the Dangote refinery achieved, and why does it matter beyond Nigeria? In August 2025, a tanker loaded with 300,000 barrels of finished gasoline departed the Lekki port complex in Lagos and sailed to the United States. The…
The Infrastructure Deficit Beneath the Policy Ambition Ghana cannot industrialise on rhetoric alone. At the 2nd Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE)–Professor Douglas Boateng Lecture Series held in Accra, Ing Edward E. Obeng-Kenzo, Chief Executive of the Volta River Authority (VRA),…
A Crime Hidden in Plain Sight Walk through Accra’s Makola Market on any given morning and the evidence is everywhere: branded pharmaceuticals sold loose from unmarked packaging, software loaded onto devices without licenses, consumer electronics bearing logos that bear only…
The Tema Oil Refinery’s receipt of one million barrels of Jubilee Medium Sweet Crude on 15 July 2026 poses a precise governance question: can Ghana’s sole state-owned refinery convert consistent upstream supply into a structurally competitive downstream operation, or will…
Ghana’s macroeconomic stabilisation since its 2022 sovereign debt crisis has drawn qualified praise from departing Swiss Ambassador Simone Giger, who served in Accra through the full arc of the country’s financial collapse and IMF-backed recovery. Her assessment, delivered on 9…
Ghana’s headline inflation reached 5.3 percent in June 2026, its third consecutive monthly increase, and analysts at Databank Research now project it could retreat to between 4.6 percent and 5.0 percent in July. That forecast raises a sharper question than…
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…
