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…
The Infrastructure Deficit Beneath the Policy Ambition Ghana cannot industrialise on rhetoric alone. At the 2nd Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE)–Professor Douglas Boateng Lecture Series held in Accra, Ing Edward E. Obeng-Kenzo, Chief Executive of the Volta River Authority (VRA),…
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…
Public money without public scrutiny is not investment. It is risk. Three civil society organisations, BudgIT Ghana, the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), and Revenue Mobilisation Africa (RMA), have issued a joint demand for the Government of Ghana to publish…
The African Union Commission and the Russian Federation used high-level consultations in Addis Ababa on 7 July to renew a joint push for permanent African representation on the United Nations Security Council, framing the continent’s exclusion as a “historical injustice”…
When Ghana’s Tema–Mpakadan railway line was commissioned, it was presented as a milestone in the country’s long-deferred infrastructure modernisation. What a forensic audit later revealed was something considerably less triumphant: a corridor put into service without functional signalling, without operational…
