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…
Africa’s financial institutions face a structural reckoning: the tools used to assess creditworthiness are changing faster than the governance frameworks designed to regulate them, and the borrowers of tomorrow bear little resemblance to those the current lending architecture was built…
A Warning From Civil Society On 6 August 2026, the New Patriotic Party marched through Accra under the banner of “Democracy Under Attack,” rallying supporters against what the opposition described as political persecution by the incumbent administration. The demonstration was…
When the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA) signed a fresh funding agreement with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in late June 2025, the ceremony marked more than a financial transaction. It signalled a deliberate institutional pivot:…
The Pra River does not run gold anymore. It runs grey. Along its banks in Ghana’s Western Region, the sediment left by years of illegal small-scale mining has altered the waterway so thoroughly that communities once dependent on it for…
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…
The African Continental Free Trade Area has been operational in principle since 2021, yet intra-African trade remains stubbornly low — hovering around 15 to 17 percent of total African exports, compared to roughly 60 percent within Europe and 58 percent…
When Parliament approved the transfer of the Damang Mine to a special purpose vehicle linked to the President’s brother, it passed on a concrete opportunity to renegotiate Ghana’s equity stake upward. That decision now sits at the center of a…
