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…
When President John Dramani Mahama addressed citizens in the Volta Region on 17 July 2025, the central question hanging over his remarks was not whether Ghana should fight corruption, but whether its institutions can do so without becoming instruments of…
The nomination papers had barely been submitted before the question took shape in legal circles in Accra: what does it mean, institutionally, when a sitting president moves to expand the apex court by nearly seventeen percent in a single appointment…
Parliament Challenges Central Bank Over Undisclosed Reserve Drawdown Ghana’s parliamentary opposition has formally demanded an explanation from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) after information gathered by the Minority caucus indicated that the country’s gross international reserves fell by approximately US$2…
What is the AES, and why does its internal review matter? Burkina Faso’s National Commission of the Alliance des États du Sahel (AES) convened on Thursday to assess progress against the Confederation’s second-year roadmap, exposing both incremental gains and structural…
A writ filed at Ghana’s Supreme Court on 9 July 2026 has placed one of the country’s most consequential constitutional questions before its highest judicial authority: does Article 66(2) of the 1992 Constitution impose a lifetime ban on the presidency…
