In a modest church hall on the outskirts of Nairobi, a pastor listens. A woman sits across from her, voice low, recounting what happened in her home the night before. The pastor is not a police officer, a social worker,…
When the Bank of Ghana stopped financing the national budget, it marked more than a technical adjustment in public accounting. It signalled a structural reorientation of how Ghana manages the relationship between its central bank and its treasury, a relationship…
Ghana’s government has initiated procurement procedures for consultancy and feasibility studies on a proposed Green Digital City, a planned urban development intended to redistribute administrative and economic functions away from Accra. The central question this project raises is not whether…
In the last week of July, Accra will become the temporary seat of a continental ambition. African heads of state and government are scheduled to convene on 21 and 22 July for the African Union’s first-ever Extraordinary Health Summit, a…
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…
