A Crime Hidden in Plain Sight Walk through Accra’s Makola Market on any given morning and the evidence is everywhere: branded pharmaceuticals sold loose from unmarked packaging, software loaded onto devices without licenses, consumer electronics bearing logos that bear only…
The Tema Oil Refinery’s receipt of one million barrels of Jubilee Medium Sweet Crude on 15 July 2026 poses a precise governance question: can Ghana’s sole state-owned refinery convert consistent upstream supply into a structurally competitive downstream operation, or will…
Canada and Ghana marked a 56% surge in bilateral trade to US$752 million in 2025, with Ottawa signalling deeper private sector engagement across mining, renewable energy, and agribusiness at a moment when Accra’s position as host of the AfCFTA Secretariat…
The assassination of a provincial leader of South Africa’s March and March movement, and the South African state’s response to it, together expose a governance crisis that carries direct consequences for West African nations whose citizens are caught in the…
In Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, a cholera outbreak is exposing a governance vacuum that jihadist groups have methodically constructed over more than a decade, rendering public health response mechanisms structurally inoperable across territories where the Islamic State West Africa Province…
Morocco’s elimination at the quarter-final stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, following a 2-0 defeat to France in Boston on 09 July, ended Africa’s representation in the tournament and reignited a familiar continental reckoning: how far can African football…
The Rematch That Reframes African Football’s Place in Global Competition When Morocco and France meet at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on 9 July 2026, the fixture carries institutional weight that extends well beyond the scoreline. The question at stake is…
When the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa convened a National Youth Dialogue in Accra to domesticate the Africa Agribusiness Young Strategy and launch the Youth in Agrifood Systems Performance Index, the event carried a question that no amount…
Ghana’s headline inflation reached 5.3 percent in June 2026, its third consecutive monthly increase, and analysts at Databank Research now project it could retreat to between 4.6 percent and 5.0 percent in July. That forecast raises a sharper question than…
Nigeria’s competition regulator has launched a formal investigation into Meta, Alphabet, X, and unnamed generative AI platforms, targeting what it describes as anti-competitive conduct and the unauthorised harvesting of Nigerian journalistic content — a move that positions Africa’s largest economy…
