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…
The report landed on President John Dramani Mahama’s desk on a Thursday, and within hours, Justice Minister Dominic Ayine was before journalists confirming what Ghana’s political class had debated for months: the government would accept the Constitution Review Committee’s recommendation…
A Constitutional Settlement With Unresolved Governance Tensions Ghana’s Supreme Court has delivered a unanimous ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959), while simultaneously affirming that the Attorney-General retains the constitutional authority to…
On a humid morning in Accra’s Makola Market, a fabric trader named Abena settles a bulk order from a supplier in Kumasi without touching a single banknote. The transaction clears in seconds, logged across a network that now holds GH¢40…
Ghana’s ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has drawn a firm institutional line between government service and internal party competition, refusing any extensions for appointees who missed a May 2026 resignation deadline required to contest party elections. The decision tests whether…
When Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, received letters of credence from India’s new High Commissioner to Ghana, Surinder Bhagat, the ceremony produced more than diplomatic formality. Ablakwa announced that Accra and New Delhi have set a bilateral…
