The Ledger That Nobody Sees Picture a household in Accra’s Adabraka neighbourhood, or in a compound home in Tamale, where a family of six sits down each month to reckon with the arithmetic of survival. Rent, school fees, electricity, water,…
Kenya’s Ruto Demands Sovereign Equality in Foreign Investment as Africa Pushes for Value-Retention Over Extraction Kenyan President William Ruto used the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Business Summit in Nairobi to deliver a pointed message to international investors: Africa will…
Ghana’s Ministry of Roads and Highways has declared the Accra-Kumasi Expressway a flagship infrastructure priority of the Mahama administration, following the completion of right-of-way clearing along the full corridor by Ghana Armed Forces engineers. What comes next, the detailed design…
The seminar room at Harvard University’s Center for International Development will, come October, host something rarely offered in academic settings: a sitting account of a central bank’s survival. Dr. Ernest Addison, who stepped down as Governor of the Bank of…
What triggered a three-day strike at one of Ghana’s key fuel distribution hubs? On 17 August 2026, BOST Energies Limited and the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union (GNPTDU) reached a negotiated agreement to suspend a three-day sit-down strike at…
Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, founder and General Overseer of Action Chapel International, issued a stark warning on 16 August that Ghana’s failure to enforce laws against illegal artisanal mining, widely known as galamsey, is systematically destroying the water bodies and agricultural…
The Ghana Police Service has signalled a clear shift in how it intends to govern digital public discourse, with Inspector General of Police Christian Tetteh Yohuno announcing that law enforcement will actively prosecute individuals who publish religiously inflammatory content on…
A legislature has moved to give constitutional principle a statutory backbone. Kenya’s National Assembly passed the Public Participation Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 44 of 2025) in a legislative act that crystallises years of contested implementation of civic engagement requirements…
The corridors of Ghana’s National Security Council Secretariat carry a particular weight. They connect intelligence units, logistics departments, and special investigations arms whose coordination, or lack thereof, determines how effectively the state protects its borders, its citizens, and ultimately, the…
Arrivals Rise, but Governance Gaps Persist Ghana’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts recorded 1,303,962 international tourist arrivals in 2025, generating GHS 4.34 billion in revenue, Minister Abla Dzifa Gomashie announced on 10 August 2025 at the Government Accountability…
