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,…
A single public statement from a presidential candidate cannot halt a criminal prosecution in Ghana. That is the institutional reality at the centre of a case that has drawn unexpected attention to the boundaries between political will and prosecutorial independence…
A video clip, shared and reshared across WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages in Ghana’s Central Region, has landed a mid-level party operative in police custody and reopened a persistently unresolved question about where political speech ends and criminal liability begins…
In the last week of July, Accra will become the temporary seat of a continental ambition. African heads of state and government are scheduled to convene on 21 and 22 July for the African Union’s first-ever Extraordinary Health Summit, a…
Ghana’s Parliament passed the Tribunals Bill, triggering immediate pushback from opposition leader Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who publicly urged President John Dramani Mahama to withhold presidential assent from legislation that would reintroduce lay-panel adjudication over criminal matters — a governance model…
On 7 July 2026, the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament announced that the Council of State had advised against passage of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana (Amendment) Bill, 2025 — the legislation designed to remove constitutional restrictions barring dual…
