What exactly did Guinea and Glencore agree to? A single deal rarely reshapes a country’s extractive economy. But the more than US$300-million bauxite pre-financing and offtake agreement signed between Guinea’s state-owned Nimba Mining and Swiss commodities giant Glencore last week…
When 26 young Ghanaians graduated from a 12-week digital skills programme in Accra in August 2026, the ceremony carried a weight that extended well beyond the occasion itself. Samuel Nartey George, Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovation, framed the…
A senior Ghanaian lawmaker has raised a formal alarm over the country’s deepening exposure as a drug transit corridor, warning that successive large-scale narcotics seizures by foreign authorities are eroding Ghana’s international standing while domestic enforcement produces no high-profile prosecutions…
A governance gap behind the numbers With Ghana recording a maternal mortality ratio of 801 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to a three-year study referenced in a Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital report, a senior political adviser has demanded that the…
What exactly is the IMF saying about Ghana’s state enterprises? The International Monetary Fund has put Ghana’s management of its state-owned enterprises directly in its crosshairs. In a Technical Assistance Report published in July 2026, titled “Advancing SOE Fiscal Risks…
The expanded BRICS grouping, now 11 members strong after its 2023 enlargement, is testing a fundamental question for West African governments: does institutional pluralism in global governance translate into concrete development gains, or does it simply multiply the diplomatic corridors…
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 is the core governance problem Ghana’s mining sector faces? The Ghana Chamber of Mines has issued a pointed warning: frequent, unpredictable shifts in fiscal policy are directly raising the cost of capital for mining projects across the country. Kenneth…
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…
