Ghana’s newly launched Responsible Cooperative Mining initiative faces serious questions about institutional compliance and community consent, with a leading environmental governance advocate warning that the programme replicates the structural weaknesses that caused its predecessor, the Community Mining scheme, to collapse…
At the centre of Ghana’s most politically charged environmental debate, a single video excerpt has reignited a fundamental governance question: can a state institution simultaneously regulate and formalise an informal sector without legitimising its worst practices? The controversy broke publicly…
Nairobi’s Global Trust Summit has forced a precise institutional question onto the table: under what conditions do public bodies earn legitimate authority, and what governance mechanisms make that authority durable? Running from 21 to 23 October under the theme “Weaving…
A new industry benchmark report reveals that seven in ten Kenyan workers are not on track for a financially secure retirement, a finding that cuts to the heart of a governance failure shared across West Africa: the persistent inability of…
A Landmark Agreement With a Long Road to Completion On paper, the numbers are striking. The Petroleum Hub Development Corporation (PHDC) has signed a $28 billion Build-Operate partnership agreement with a consortium led by Global Sphere for the development of…
At a three-day convening held from 14 to 16 October in Lusaka, Zambia, five of Africa’s major Regional Economic Communities formally endorsed a set of recommendations that, taken together, represent the most structurally ambitious attempt in recent memory to reframe…
The number arrived quietly, but it carried weight. Kenya’s economy grew at 5.1 percent in the second quarter of 2025, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) confirmed, brushing aside the twin headwinds of geopolitical price volatility linked to the…
Ghana’s automotive sector presents a precise, measurable test of whether the country can convert trade facilitation into genuine industrial capacity, and the answer hinges on a governance question that extends well beyond the factory floor: does Ghana’s current policy architecture…
A silver medal in aircraft maintenance at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 is not simply a sporting achievement. It is a governance signal. South Africa’s Matthew Bowen, who secured 738 points in the Aircraft Maintenance category at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026, demonstrated that…
A Kenyan institutional investor can now buy into Nigeria’s most consequential industrial asset of the decade. Whether the regulatory plumbing that makes this possible can scale into a durable regional capital market is the harder question. The Transaction and Its…
