On 1 May 2026, a shipment of Ghanaian cocoa crossed into the Chinese market without a customs duty attached. So did Kenyan coffee, Egyptian citrus, and South African wine. Across 53 African countries, the General Administration of Customs of the…
A Shipment That Exposed Institutional Gaps When 3.9 tonnes of cocaine surfaced in a shipment linked to Ghana, the immediate question was not simply one of law enforcement. It was a question of institutional architecture: which agencies were responsible, how…
A Gulf state with no land border in Africa now sits at the table where the emerging global economic order is being written. That fact alone should concentrate minds in Accra, Abuja, and Dakar. The 18th BRICS Summit, held in…
Ghana’s domestic aviation sector operates under structural conditions that systematically suppress fare competition, with policy choices made over the past decade narrowing the market to two scheduled carriers and leaving consumers with limited alternatives. From Four Carriers to Two The…
A Shift in Development Architecture With Direct Consequences for West African Governance India’s development cooperation framework, encompassing concessional finance, technical assistance, institutional capacity-building and technology transfer across more than 160 partner countries, is reshaping the terms on which Global South…
On a quiet Monday morning in Accra, the Bank of Ghana quietly but decisively pulled GH¢13.71 billion out of the financial system through a tender of 14-day Bills, accepting every cedi offered by participating banks at an interest rate of…
Ghana’s ability to leverage artificial intelligence as a governance and development instrument depends less on the sophistication of its technology imports than on whether its institutions can bridge the persistent gap between research output and practical implementation. That was the…
Ghana spends more of its national revenue servicing external debt than it allocates to public health. That single figure, drawn from an ActionAid analysis of eight African countries using January 2025 data, crystallises a structural tension that undermines climate resilience…
When Algerian and Malian officials sat down in Bamako this week to discuss joint investment in gold, lithium, and cross-border transport infrastructure, they were doing so against a backdrop that, barely six months earlier, had looked entirely different. The meeting…
A single infrastructure decision can redraw an economy’s internal logic. Ghana’s proposed Accra-Kumasi Expressway, a 198.7-kilometre, six-lane corridor designed to cut travel time between the country’s two largest cities from six hours to two, is precisely that kind of decision…
