A dam in Burkina Faso may begin releasing water on 11 August 2026. That single operational decision, made in Ouagadougou, will determine whether communities along Ghana’s White Volta River face flooding, displacement, or worse. The Water Resources Commission (WRC) issued…
A Refinery’s Return Forces a Governance Reckoning The recommissioning of the Tema Oil Refinery’s Crude Distillation Unit on 1 August marks more than an operational milestone for Ghana’s energy sector. It poses a precise institutional question: under what governance conditions…
A single transformer failure at the Ghana Grid Company’s Asiekpe Bulk Supply Point has darkened dozens of communities across the Volta and Oti Regions, laying bare the structural fragility of Ghana’s transmission infrastructure at a moment when reliable electricity access…
When a national police service finalises its annual recruitment cycle, what is actually being tested is not merely the fitness of individual candidates, but the institutional credibility of the state itself. Ghana’s Police Service is now in the concluding phase…
The report landed on President John Dramani Mahama’s desk on a Thursday, and within hours, Justice Minister Dominic Ayine was before journalists confirming what Ghana’s political class had debated for months: the government would accept the Constitution Review Committee’s recommendation…
A Constitutional Settlement With Unresolved Governance Tensions Ghana’s Supreme Court has delivered a unanimous ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959), while simultaneously affirming that the Attorney-General retains the constitutional authority to…
On a humid morning in Accra’s Makola Market, a fabric trader named Abena settles a bulk order from a supplier in Kumasi without touching a single banknote. The transaction clears in seconds, logged across a network that now holds GH¢40…
Ghana’s ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has drawn a firm institutional line between government service and internal party competition, refusing any extensions for appointees who missed a May 2026 resignation deadline required to contest party elections. The decision tests whether…
When Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, received letters of credence from India’s new High Commissioner to Ghana, Surinder Bhagat, the ceremony produced more than diplomatic formality. Ablakwa announced that Accra and New Delhi have set a bilateral…
In a modest church hall on the outskirts of Nairobi, a pastor listens. A woman sits across from her, voice low, recounting what happened in her home the night before. The pastor is not a police officer, a social worker,…
