A single road contract, awarded once, paid multiple times over, and never completed. That is the procurement dynamic Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhassan Suhuyini, described on 18 September 2026, and it cuts to the core of why…
A quiet notice on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s website last week rewrote, at least partially, the diplomatic ledger between Washington and Asmara. The Trump administration’s decision to remove sanctions against the Eritrean Defense Forces marks a deliberate recalibration…
The bill was GH¢49.72 million. That figure, now confirmed through a formal Right to Information disclosure, represents the full cost Ghana’s government incurred evacuating 1,964 nationals from South Africa between 27 May and 4 September 2026, and it is already…
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.…
