When President John Dramani Mahama announced at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, that Ghana intends to list 10 state-owned enterprises on the Ghana Stock Exchange, the headline figure…
Every time a Ghanaian exporter invoices a Kenyan buyer, both parties absorb a cost that has nothing to do with the goods exchanged, the logistics involved, or the regulatory compliance required. They pay simply because their currencies cannot speak to…
A Dormant Regional Obligation Resurfaces Ghana’s government has instructed the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) to release 50,000 bags of grains to settle a longstanding debt owed to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), reviving questions about…
A continental free trade agreement means little if a Ghanaian exporter still needs US dollars to pay a Kenyan supplier. That is not a hypothetical — it is the operational reality AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene described at a recent gathering…
On 1 May 2026, a shipment of Ghanaian cocoa crossed into the Chinese market without a customs duty attached. So did Kenyan coffee, Egyptian citrus, and South African wine. Across 53 African countries, the General Administration of Customs of the…
When the price of cooking gas rises in Accra, the mechanism behind that increase rarely surfaces in public debate. Yet the signal now coming from Ghana’s LPG industry executives is precise and worth examining with care: propane and butane, the…
Across West Africa, financial inclusion frameworks have treated credit access as the primary lever for advancing women’s economic participation. Ghana’s government, ECOWAS regional bodies, and development finance institutions have collectively channelled billions of dollars into reducing collateral requirements, digitising loan…
Ghana’s domestic aviation sector operates under structural conditions that systematically suppress fare competition, with policy choices made over the past decade narrowing the market to two scheduled carriers and leaving consumers with limited alternatives. From Four Carriers to Two The…
A single road contract, awarded once, paid multiple times over, and never completed. That is the procurement dynamic Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhassan Suhuyini, described on 18 September 2026, and it cuts to the core of why…
The bill was GH¢49.72 million. That figure, now confirmed through a formal Right to Information disclosure, represents the full cost Ghana’s government incurred evacuating 1,964 nationals from South Africa between 27 May and 4 September 2026, and it is already…
