When more than fifty young men were arrested near Borgu, in Niger State’s gold-bearing north-central belt, on a Tuesday in late 2024, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps processed them as routine suspects in an ongoing crackdown on artisanal…
The Institutional Stakes of Kenya’s Infrastructure Financing Pivot Kenya’s National Infrastructure Fund (NIF) is making a deliberate bid to redirect domestic pension capital toward large-scale infrastructure projects, a move that places the country’s regulatory architecture and institutional investment frameworks under…
Kenya’s emerging social-commerce economy raises a pointed policy question for West Africa: will African economies build the regulatory, payments and trade infrastructure required to capture the value created by this new form of commerce, or will they simply host transactions…
Ghana’s Black Maidens launched their WAFU B U17 Girls Cup campaign on 15 May 2025 with a commanding 4-0 defeat of Burkina Faso, a result that carries significance beyond the scoreline. Within the architecture of West African football governance, the…
At Ghana’s latest primary market Treasury bill auction, investor demand outpaced government targets by 2.83%, a figure modest in isolation but telling in context: it marks another data point in a cautious, incremental restoration of confidence in a sovereign debt…
A projected double-digit increase in diesel prices, set to take effect on 17 September 2026, has thrown into sharp relief the structural vulnerability of Ghana’s petroleum pricing framework — and, by extension, the broader challenge facing West African governments that…
Ghana’s Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, declared on 13 September 2025 that the country is executing what the government describes as the single largest road infrastructure programme on the African continent at any given point in time.…
The meeting room at the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi was not the typical setting for a pension fund roadshow. Students, salaried workers, and small business owners filed in, many of them Ugandans who had built lives in Kenya but…
Ghana’s Ministry of Finance moved on 10 September 2026 to defend the employment projections attached to the proposed Accra-Kumasi Expressway, with Technical Advisor Dr Theo Acheampong arguing that the government’s estimate of 30,000 direct and indirect jobs is not only…
The Ledger That Nobody Sees Picture a household in Accra’s Adabraka neighbourhood, or in a compound home in Tamale, where a family of six sits down each month to reckon with the arithmetic of survival. Rent, school fees, electricity, water,…
