The European Union has formally acknowledged that illegal artisanal mining, locally known as galamsey, is directly eroding the returns on its development investments in Ghana, with Deputy Head of EU Delegation Jonas Claes warning at the public launch of three…
A Pattern That Demands Institutional Accountability Three major cocaine interceptions in under three months, spanning three continents and implicating Ghana’s principal port, its main international airport and its domestic transport networks, constitute an institutional stress test, not a string of…
The Institutional Financing Question at the Heart of COMESA’s 25th Summit At the 25th Summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), held on 1 May 2025 at the New Parliament Building in Harare, Zimbabwe, Kenyan President…
Ghana’s Gold Board (GoldBod) moved on Thursday to contain a growing governance controversy by formally clarifying that its chief executive’s public remarks on illegal mining did not constitute an endorsement of galamsey, insisting instead that the institution is pursuing a…
A Ghanaian court has blocked a mandatory licensing examination for 792 newly trained medical doctors, exposing a governance fault line between professional regulatory bodies and the due process rights of graduating health workers. The ruling lands at a moment when…
On 19 October, before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Ghana’s Deputy Health Minister Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah delivered a warning that cuts to the core of the country’s public health governance: without a dedicated domestic budget line for maternal healthcare, Ghana will…
When chiefs from the Western North Region arrived at the seat of government for a courtesy call earlier this week, they carried with them a grievance familiar to many of Ghana’s newer administrative regions: the absence of any operational commercial…
Public financial accountability in Ghana is not broken at the margins. It is broken at the centre. Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson delivered that message with unusual directness on 15 April 2025, addressing regional ministers and metropolitan, municipal and…
A five-member Supreme Court panel has cleared the way for a criminal trial that cuts to the heart of Ghana’s public infrastructure governance. The case began years before it reached the Supreme Court’s chambers. Solomon Asamoah served as Chief Executive…
A criminal sand-extraction operation on the Accra–Kumasi Expressway project corridor has exposed a critical gap in Ghana’s capacity to protect strategic public infrastructure, prompting a security crackdown in the Ashanti Region and raising pointed questions about institutional oversight of the…
